Scott Walker Once Backpedaled After Supporting Wisconsin Gun-Control Bill
His flirtation with the issue could create an opportunity for competitors.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks to the press outside his office at the Wisconsin State Capitol on February 23, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's got an A-plus rating from the National Rifle Association, but he once backed a bill that could have jailed gun dealers who sold weapons without trigger locks—and the people who bought them.
Walker, at the time a junior member of the state assembly, briefly co-sponsored a bill in 1995 making it illegal for any federally licensed gun dealer in the state to sell a weapon that wasn't secured with a trigger lock, and also made it illegal to buy one. The penalty: fines of up to $10,000 and jail sentences of up to nine months.