Surely there is a commission, or a committee, or a blue-ribbon research group in Milwaukee that has heard of Project Exile?
Project Exile is a federal program started in Richmond, Virginia, in 1997. Project Exile shifted the prosecution of illegal technical gun possession offenses to federal court, where they carried a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison under the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, rather than in state court. Note that federal law (18 U.S. Code § 922(g) & 924) provides for a penalty of ten years in federal prison for being a "prohibited person", i.e., a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, as well as for falsifying information in order to obtain one, or furnishing a gun to a convicted felon....
As to the "exile" part: the convicts were placed in Fed lockups 200-1000 miles from home.
Not to worry, criminals! Milwaukee won't do it. Didn't do it when it was first invented, hasn't done it since (about THIRTY years) and the Mayor is waaaayyy too comfy with his homies in the DA's office doing not. one. damn. thing. serious about gun crimes.
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