RESOLUTION TO CONDUCT COUNTYWIDE ADVISORY REFERENDUM ON PROTECTING STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS

The right of the People to keep and bear arms is guaranteed as an individual right under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and under Article I, Section 25 of the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin. The people of Sauk County, Wisconsin derive personal and economic benefit from all safe forms of firearms recreation, hunting, and shooting conducted within Sauk County using all types of firearms. Currently, there is an effort underway to undermine our Constitutional gun rights as a reaction to recent shootings, a problem that continues because Congress has failed to provide a solution to the mental health issues that plague the perpetrators. The Sauk County Board, being elected to represent the People of Sauk County and being duly sworn by their Oath of Office to uphold the Constitutions of the United States of America and the State of Wisconsin, supports the people’s right to bear arms and the rights of all people to lawfully discharge them.

In order to determine whether the people of Sauk County wish to protect individuals’ Constitutional right to own and bear arms by rejecting legislative attempts to restrict said right, the County Board will conduct a countywide advisory referendum, pursuant to Wis. Stat. 59.52(25), in the Fall Election on November 6, 2018.