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Wisconsin lawmakers defend dropping training requirement from new concealed carry policy (The Daily Cardinal)

“The only saving grace [Act 35] had was the fact that there were these requirements,” UW-Madison Young Progressives Vice President Sam Gehler said. “The elimination of those requirements does not bode very well for the safety of the people of Wisconsin.”

Gehler compared hurdles to receiving a driver?s license to the “less stringent requirements” now in place for permits to carry concealed weapons, “which are designed to kill people.”