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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 946

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Relating to: containers or trigger locks provided at a firearm sale and providing a penalty.

Firearms and dangerous weapons Fish and fishing Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Legislature — Employment relations joint committee on Sales Sales tax — Exemption

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires a person who commercially sells or transfers a firearm to provide the purchaser or transferee with either a secure, lockable container that is designed to store a firearm or a trigger lock for the firearm. A seller or transferor who violates this requirement is subject to a fine of up to $500 or imprisonment for up to 30 days, or both.

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: Hesselbein (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D)

18 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Joers (D) , Keyeski (D) , Kirsch (D) , Mayadev (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Prado (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spaude (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Udell (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

  1. Feb 6, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Larson, Hesselbein, Ratcliff and Roys; cosponsored by Representatives Subeck, Andraca, Emerson, Sinicki, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Joers, Kirsch, Neubauer, Prado, Snodgrass, Spaude, Stubbs and Udell

  2. Feb 6, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State and Federal Affairs

  3. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Palmeri added as a cosponsor

  4. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Mayadev added as a cosponsor

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  6. Mar 30, 2026 · Senate

    Senator Keyeski added as a coauthor