You will be denied the right to purchase a handgun if:
Wisconsin disqualifiers:
1. You have been convicted of a felony in Wisconsin or an offense elsewhere that would be a felony in Wisconsin.
2. You are found not guilty of a felony in Wisconsin by reason of mental disease or defect or elsewhere for an offense that would be a felony in Wisconsin.
3. You are an adjudicated delinquent for an act that would be a felony if committed by an adult in Wisconsin.
4. You are involuntarily committed for treatment of mental illness, drug dependency or developmental disability.
5. You are subject to a harassment, domestic abuse or child abuse injunction prohibiting the possession of a firearm.
Additional federal disqualifiers:
1. Illegal or unlawful aliens.
2. Persons who have renounced U.S. citizenship.
3. Persons dishonorably discharged.
4. Persons adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to any mental institution.
5. Unlawful users addicted to controlled substances, drug convictions within the last year at misdemeanor and county/city ordinance level.
6. Convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
7. Fugitive from justice.
Federal law requires Wisconsin to deny based on federal disqualifiers as well as those established by Wisconsin law.For more information see: www.doj.state.wi.us. or Koll v. Department of Justice, 2009 WI App 74, 317 Wis. 2d 753, 679 N.W. 2d 69.
