What items will be prohibited at the RNC convention in Milwaukee?
There’s a long list of banned items inside the “soft” perimeter of the RNC convention, but guns aren’t on it. Wisconsin Gov. Evers has asked for a rethink.
The Republican National Convention is set to begin on Monday, July 15, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In light of the attempted assassination of the GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump, Governor Tony Evers has requested that firearms be banned from the area within the “soft” perimeter surrounding the Fiserv Forum arena in Downtown Milwaukee.
Currently, guns will not be allowed within the “hard” security zone, which is under the control of the US Secret Service. While City Hall wanted to ban all guns, along with a long list of other items, which includes water guns and tennis balls, within the wider security ‘footprint’, state law prohibited enacting firearm restrictions more stringent than those of the State of Wisconsin.
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What items will be prohibited at the RNC convention in Milwaukee?
Wisconsin is both a concealed carry and open carry state but that doesn’t mean that all firearms are allowable. For example, people are not allowed to carry fully automatic weapons, machine guns, short-barreled shotguns or silencers which are all of prohibited under state law.
In preparation for the Republican National Convention, the Milwaukee Common Council approved a prohibition on a host of items from the security footprint zone. Below is the full list of items that have been banned:
- Lumber larger than 2 inches in width and 0.25 inches thick, including supports for signs
- Metal, plastic, or other hard material more than 0.75 inches thick and 0.0125 inches in wall thickness, including pipes and tubing
- Air rifles, air pistols, paintball guns, blasting caps, cestus or other combat gloves, billy clubs, blackjacks, swords, sabers, hatchets, axes, slingshots, BB guns, pellet guns, wrist shots, wrist rockets, metal knuckles, nunchucks, iron buckles, axe handles, shovels or other things that could be used to hurt people or damage property
- Explosives, explosive devices or incendiary devices
- Fireworks or rockets
- Drones or other unmanned aircraft systems or devices
- Containers of bodily fluid or waste
- Containers of flammable liquid
- Aerosol cans
- Mace, pepper spray, OC spray or other chemical irritants
- Umbrellas with a metal tip
- Projectile launchers, including slingshots, water guns or water cannons.
- Adhesive or rope, chain, cable, strapping, wire, string, line, tape or similar materials longer than 6 inches
- Glass bottles, ornaments, light bulbs, ceramic vessels or other fragile or brittle containers, whether or not the container holds any substance
- Locks, without limitation, including padlocks, bicycle locks, chain locks or similar device. (However, this does not include locks used by the owner of private property for temporary or permanent fencing or a lock attached to a bicycle)
- Tents or other shelters, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, mattresses, cots, hammocks, bivy sacks or stoves
- Coolers or ice chests
- Backpacks or bags bigger than 18 inches x 13 inches x 7 inches
- Lasers
- Non-plastic containers, bottles, cans or thermoses
- Ladders
- Grappling hooks, sledgehammers, hammers, crowbars or prybars
- Canned goods
- Tennis balls or other similarly sized balls
- Gas masks or similar devices used to protect against irritating or noxious gasses (However, this does not include medical oxygen or cloth masks, N95 or KN95 surgical masks used as PPE to avoid transmission of viruses. Note: law enforcement and emergency responders acting in their official capacities are exempt)
- As well as any other item determined by the chief of police to be a clear and present danger to the safety of others
For additional information regarding the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee the city has provided a frequently asked questions page.