Section 10.04. Dealer registration.

  The following preconditions shall be met before a dealer may offer a handgun for sale or request department approval for any handgun transfer as required under this chapter:

(1)  A dealer shall register each handgun store the dealer owns or operates with the department by fully and accurately completing and submitting to the department in duplicate the firearms dealer registration form provided to the dealer for that purpose by the department and by obtaining from the department under sub. (2) (intro.) and (a) a dealer identification number for each handgun store. A dealer that operates multiple handgun stores shall file a separate registration form for each store.

(2)  After receiving a properly completed firearms dealer registration form from a dealer under sub. (1) , the department, if it may do so in compliance with this chapter and s. 175.35 , Stats., shall do the following:

(a) Issue the dealer a dealer identification number for the handgun store for which the firearms dealer registration form was completed and submitted,

(b) Inform the dealer in writing of the toll-free telephone number designated by the department for use by the dealer in requesting departmental approval for any handgun transfer, and

(c) Mail the dealer the notification forms, each bearing a notification form number, needed for use by the dealer under s. Jus 10.06 (1) (c) .

History: Cr. Register, November, 1991, No. 431 , eff. 12-1-91.

Note

A copy of the firearms dealer registration form required under this subsection is attached to this chapter as appendix I. The department will provide a dealer a form for ordering the dealer registration form and other forms required under this chapter. Forms can be ordered from the following address: Crime Information Bureau, Attention: Firearms Hotline, P.O. Box 2718, Madison, Wisconsin 53701. Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1