Wisconsin Democrat Shelia Stubbs posted a sign outside her office banning firearms, but her Republican colleague didn’t pay it much attention.
A Republican state lawmaker reportedly displayed a holstered firearm to a Democratic aide in an area of the Wisconsin Assembly where weapons are banned, according to State Representative Shelia Stubbs.
Sortwell was reportedly dismissive of a sign posted outside Stubbs’s office indicating that firearms were not permitted inside. According to local media reporting, once Sortwell pulled back his coat to reveal his defiance of the ban, Castro asked him to leave. Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller was asked to speak with Sortwell about his behavior, though it is unclear what sanctions, if any, were imposed upon the Republican lawmaker.
Wisconsin, like many other states in the wake of historic mass shootings in recent years, is enmeshed in a debate over possible measures to address gun violence. Democrat Tony Evers defeated incumbent Republican Governor Scott Walker in an upset race last year, in part because of his credentials as an educator. Advocates have pushed for lawmakers in Madison to consider a “red flag” law, though the Republican-dominated statehouse is unlikely to pass bills that curtail gun rights.
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