Posted April 11, 2018 11:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

The state’s high court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a man charged by Milwaukee police over a handgun in his car, citing he did not have a carry permit.
In a 6-1 decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed previous rulings in the case of Brian Grandberry, who was charged over a loaded handgun discovered by police in his glove compartment. The man argued the state’s laws on transporting guns didn’t square with Wisconsin’s concealed carry statutes. The court did not agree.
According to court documents, two Milwaukee Police officers stopped Grandberry in 2014 and found the loaded .45-caliber Hi-Point pistol in his car, for which he at first said he had a concealed carry permit for but then admitted that he did not. Charged with carrying a concealed and dangerous weapon under Wisconsin law, Grandberry appealed his conviction arguing that, when compared to the state’s safe transport law which allows guns to be transported without a permit so long as they are out of reach, the concealed carry regulations were unconstitutionally vague. Going further, he told the court that the glove compartment in which he placed his gun would not open when the passenger seat was occupied, so the gun was

Source: Guns.com

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