The City of Milwaukee filed a lawsuit on Monday against firearm dealers and manufacturers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for knowingly supplying firearms facilitating the violation of city firearm ordinances threatening public safety.
The City of Milwaukee is faced with high levels of crime. The dealers and manufactures actions impairs the City’s efforts to protect public health, safety and welfare through strict gun-control ordinances. They are undermining gun-control ordinances since there is a profitable market for illegal firearms in Milwaukee.
Firearm manufacturers design and advertise their guns to appeal to the significant market for illegal firearms. This includes those who wish to use them for criminal purposes. Firearm dealers are aware that these multiple purchasers are one way in which guns …show more content…
The idea of guns as a nuisance threatening our health, safety and welfare is powerful,” said Milwaukee Mayor Mary Ellen Daviness.
Many of the violent crimes in Milwaukee are committed with firearms that are possessed and used illegally. Between 1999 and 2014, there were 497,632 total gun deaths, according to ProCon.org, a nonprofit public charity that provides research from various controversial issues of gun control, the death penalty and illegal immigration.
The existence of illegal firearms in Milwaukee proximately leads to deaths and injuries to Milwaukee residents and greatly increases costs to the City to enforce the law and care for the victims of firearms crime. Because of this, the City of Milwaukee has to dedicate resources, time and money to provide emergency medical services to victims of firearm violence.
“There is no, absolutely no legitimate reason for citizens to have most of the guns we’re seeing on the street. This isn’t the case of a hunter with a rifle. We’re talking about sophisticated, automatic, undetectable weapons,” said Chief of Milwaukee Police Department, Buffy
The City of Milwaukee is faced with high levels of crime. The dealers and manufactures actions impairs the City’s efforts to protect public health, safety and welfare through strict gun-control ordinances. They are undermining gun-control ordinances since there is a profitable market for illegal firearms in Milwaukee.
Firearm manufacturers design and advertise their guns to appeal to the significant market for illegal firearms. This includes those who wish to use them for criminal purposes. Firearm dealers are aware that these multiple purchasers are one way in which guns …show more content…
The idea of guns as a nuisance threatening our health, safety and welfare is powerful,” said Milwaukee Mayor Mary Ellen Daviness.
Many of the violent crimes in Milwaukee are committed with firearms that are possessed and used illegally. Between 1999 and 2014, there were 497,632 total gun deaths, according to ProCon.org, a nonprofit public charity that provides research from various controversial issues of gun control, the death penalty and illegal immigration.
The existence of illegal firearms in Milwaukee proximately leads to deaths and injuries to Milwaukee residents and greatly increases costs to the City to enforce the law and care for the victims of firearms crime. Because of this, the City of Milwaukee has to dedicate resources, time and money to provide emergency medical services to victims of firearm violence.
“There is no, absolutely no legitimate reason for citizens to have most of the guns we’re seeing on the street. This isn’t the case of a hunter with a rifle. We’re talking about sophisticated, automatic, undetectable weapons,” said Chief of Milwaukee Police Department, Buffy