{"id":15213,"date":"2025-02-11T14:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15213"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:56:10","slug":"court-watch-how-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-can-impact-2nd-amendment-and-sportsmen-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15213","title":{"rendered":"Court Watch: How the Wisconsin Supreme Court Can Impact 2nd Amendment and Sportsmen Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-how-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-can-impact-2a-and-sportsmen\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-how-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-can-impact-2a-and-sportsmen\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/How-the-Wisconsin-Supreme-Court-Can-Impact-2nd-Amendment-and-Sportsmen-Rights-.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>For Immediate Release:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>February 11, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Delafield, Wis.<\/b><span> \u2013 The Institute for Reforming Government (IRG) released another <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-2A-Sportsmen.pdf\">\u201cCourt Watch\u201d primer<\/a>, this time outlining how the Wisconsin Supreme Court\u2019s ruling can impact 2nd Amendment and Sportsmen rights. The <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-2A-Sportsmen.pdf\">primer<\/a> outlines how the Court may have the final say on the debate surrounding the right to bear arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>WHY IT MATTERS:<\/b><span> As some policy leaders discuss anti-gun initiatives like \u201cuniversal background checks\u201d and \u201cred flag laws,\u201d control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next decade could determine whether these laws are upheld or are struck as unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>THE QUOTE:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cConservative majorities have protected the right to bear arms while liberal majorities have chipped away at those rulings,\u201d<\/b><span> said Jake Curtis, General Counsel and Director of CIO<\/span> <span>of IRG. <\/span><b>\u201cWisconsinites cherish our sporting heritage and the right to protect our personal safety, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court will determine the future of those rights.\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>WHAT\u2019S NEXT: <\/b><span>State courts impact everyday Wisconsinites\u2019 lives and IRG\u2019s new Court Watch initiative will lead in educating on the importance of the judicial branch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read the primer <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IRG-Court-Watch-2A-Sportsmen.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/court-watch-how-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-can-impact-2a-and-sportsmen\/ For Immediate Release:\u00a0 February 11, 2025 Delafield, Wis. \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":15215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15216,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions\/15216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}