Wisconsin Concealed Carry Permit

Wisconsin has no state law prohibiting a non-prohibited adult from building a firearm for personal use, and no state law requiring a serial number, state registration, or state marking on a self-made firearm. Determined by reviewing the complete official section index of Wis. Stat. ch. 941, subch. III (Weapons) on docs.legis.wisconsin.gov, which runs: 941.20 Endangering safety by use of dangerous weapon; 941.21 Disarming an officer; 941.23 Carrying concealed weapon; 941.231 Carrying a concealed knife; 941.235 Carrying firearm in public building; 941.237 Carrying handgun where alcohol beverages may be sold and consumed; 941.25 Manufacturer to register machine guns; 941.26 Machine guns and other weapons; 941.28 Possession of short-barreled shotgun or short-barreled rifle; 941.29 Possession of a firearm; 941.2905 Straw purchasing of firearms; 941.291 Possession of body armor; 941.292 Possession of a weaponized drone; 941.295 Possession of electric weapon; 941.296 Handgun and armor-piercing bullet during crime; 941.2965 Restrictions on use of facsimile firearms; 941.297 Sale or distribution of imitation firearms; 941.298 Firearm silencers; 941.299 Restrictions on the use of laser pointers. None addresses home manufacture, unserialized firearms, 'ghost guns', undetectable firearms, or unfinished frames/receivers. IMPORTANT CAVEATS: (1) This is a conclusion drawn from the absence of a statute, not an affirmative official statement — no Wisconsin agency publishes a page saying home manufacture is lawful. (2) FEDERAL law still fully applies: the Undetectable Firearms Act (18 U.S.C. § 922(p)), the National Firearms Act for short-barreled or automatic weapons, the prohibition on manufacturing for sale or distribution without an FFL, and ATF Final Rule 2021R-05F. (3) A person prohibited from possessing a firearm under Wis. Stat. § 941.29 may not build one either. (4) Wisconsin's firearms preemption statute, Wis. Stat. § 66.0409, generally bars local governments from imposing stricter firearm regulation than the state.

No Wisconsin statute on point; Wis. Stat. ch. 941, subch. III (Weapons) contains no self-manufacture, serialization, or unfinished frame/receiver provision.

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What we could not confirm

• PUERTO RICO / VALIDATION CONFLICT: Wisconsin DOJ's official recognition page expressly lists Puerto Rico ('regular license only. Expedited licenses do not qualify for recognition in Wisconsin.'). PR is a legitimate USPS two-letter code, but a prior validation run rejected it as an invalid postal code, so it has been removed from reciprocity.honors and documented in reciprocity.notes instead. The omission is a schema accommodation, NOT a statement that Wisconsin declines to recognize Puerto Rico licenses. If the schema is widened to accept territories, PR should be added back.
• CONDITIONAL RECOGNITION IS FLATTENED: the honors array cannot express partial recognition. FL and VA are recognized ONLY via their NON-RESIDENT licenses (their resident licenses are expressly NOT recognized), and ID, MO, and WV exclude emergency/provisional licenses. A reader relying on the bare array could wrongly conclude that a Florida or Virginia RESIDENT license is valid in Wisconsin. It is not. See reciprocity.notes before rendering.
• The DOJ reciprocity page carried no visible 'last updated' date in the fetched content, so I cannot state how recently Wisconsin refreshed its recognition list. Reciprocity lists change without notice; re-verify before publishing.
• training.hours is left empty because Wisconsin sets no statutory minimum. The frequently repeated '4 hours' figure traces to a DOJ MODEL curriculum, not a legal requirement. Do not render this as '4 hours required.'
• instructorRegistryUrl is null: Wis. Stat. § 175.60(4)(b)1. states 'The department shall certify instructors for the purposes of par. (a) 1. c. and e. and shall maintain a list of instructors that it certifies,' but I could not locate a publicly published DOJ instructor list at any official URL, and the DOJ CCW Training Requirements page links none. The registry may exist but be non-public, or may live at a URL I did not find.
• fingerprintsRequired is set false based on Wis. Stat. § 175.60(7) omitting fingerprints from the required application contents, plus the DOJ page noting a fingerprint card only for mistaken-identity appeals. I found no official page affirmatively stating 'no fingerprints required.'
• Exact current dollar amounts of the § 175.35(2i) background-check fee component were not independently verified; only the DOJ's published all-in totals ($40 new / $22 renewal) and the statutory caps were confirmed.
• HOME MANUFACTURE IS AN ARGUMENT FROM SILENCE. I confirmed the complete official section index of Wis. Stat. ch. 941 subch. III contains no self-manufacture or serialization provision, but I did not exhaustively search every other Wisconsin chapter or the administrative code for such a provision, and no Wisconsin agency publishes an affirmative statement on the subject. Treat selfManufactureAllowed/serialRequired as 'no state law found' rather than 'officially confirmed lawful.' Federal law applies independently.
• Minor secondary fees (replacement card, address-change card, name change) listed on the DOJ CCW Forms page were not re-verified in this pass and are omitted from the fees object.
• One fetch of the chapter 941 PDF returned a fabricated table of contents that contradicted the authoritative HTML statute index; that output was discarded and is not reflected anywhere in this record. All chapter 941 section titles reported here come from the HTML index at docs.legis.wisconsin.gov.
• The WebSearch budget for this session was exhausted at the outset, so all verification was performed by directly fetching known official URLs rather than by search discovery. It is possible an official Wisconsin page relevant to these fields exists at a URL I did not discover.