Reply #10: Frrom the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

[MrBenchley]

"Doyle also said the measure would cost the state's 72 sheriffs about $3.7 million to administer and the state Justice Department about $1.8 million to do first-year criminal background checks on applicants for concealed weapons permits.
The veto was praised by the National Association of Social Workers; the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence; a group of owners of Wisconsin Dells-area businesses; law-enforcement groups that included the Wisconsin Troopers' Association and the Wisconsin Sheriffs & Deputy Sheriffs Association; the Wisconsin Counties Association; and the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families."

More folks for the NRA blacklist there. Meanwhile the ban on concealed weapons had stood since 1870...and most citizens of the state oppose arming neurotics willy-nilly.