Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: storage of a firearm in a house in which a resident is prohibited from possessing a firearm and providing a penalty.
Firearms and dangerous weapons Housing Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
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What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires a person to store any firearm he or she possesses in a securely locked box or container or other secure locked location or with a trigger lock engaged if the person resides with a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm under state law. A person who violates this requirement is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class I felony for a repeat offense. State law currently prohibits the following persons from possessing a firearm: persons who have been convicted of a felony; persons found not guilty of a felony by reason of mental disease or defect; persons who are subject to certain injunctions such as a domestic abuse or child abuse injunction or, in certain cases, a harassment or an individuals-at-risk injunction; and persons who have been involuntarily committed for mental health treatment and ordered not to possess a firearm.
Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report.
Sponsors
Introduced by: DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Joers (D) , Kirsch (D) , Miresse (D) , Prado (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Udell (D)
8 cosponsors
Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Larson (D) , Mayadev (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)
Registered lobbying interests · 2
Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record
Full history
- Jan 28, 2026 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Subeck, Emerson, Sinicki, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Joers, Kirsch, Miresse, Prado, Snodgrass, Stroud, Stubbs and Udell; cosponsored by Senators Larson, Dassler-Alfheim, Hesselbein, Ratcliff, Roys and Spreitzer
- Jan 28, 2026 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety
- Feb 9, 2026 · Assembly
Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor
- Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly
Representative Mayadev added as a coauthor
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1