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Firearm disqualifications in Wisconsin

What disqualifies you from owning a firearm in Wisconsin?

Someone in Wisconsin is disqualified from owning a firearm if they are:

• Anyone with a felony in Wisconsin or another state
• Anyone who is adjudicated delinquent in a crime
• Court ordered not to possess a firearm
• Enjoined under an injunction
• Under a tribal injunction, issued by any federally recognized Wisconsin Indian tribe or band
• Anyone with drug convictions in the past year
• Anyone that has misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence
• Anyone that has a misdemeanor domestic abuse
• Illegal or unlawful alien
• Renounced United States citizenship
• Dishonorably discharged from the armed forces
• Found to be mentally unstable or committed to any mental institution
• Found not guilty of a crime because of mental disease or defect, insanity or illness
• Committed for certain treatments
• Drug users or addicts of controlled substances
• A fugitive from justice
• A juvenile involved in a felony

Felony restrictions on firearms in Wisconsin

Those convicted of a felony in Wisconsin:

• Can not possess a weapon
• Can not have a weapon in their home
• Can not purchase a weapon

Mental health restrictions on firearms in Wisconsin

• 922(d), it is unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person “has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution.

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