If you’d like to take part in the Ceasefire Community Walk (one mile), it begins at Tabernacle Community Baptist Church, 2500 W. Medford Ave. in Milwaukee starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 17th.

The gun buy-back program is set for the same day (Saturday) at the same location — Tabernacle Community Baptist Church. The gun buy-back program will be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

$53,000 was raised for the gun buy-back program. Here’s the breakdown of what you’ll receive for various weapons:

   $50 bank card for the return of a shotgun or rifle
   $100 bank card for the return of a handgun
   $200 bank card for the return of an assault weapon

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Generally, current law does not prohibit the possession, sale, or transfer of an
assault weapon. This bill bans the transportation, purchase, possession, or transfer
of an assault weapon and specifically defines "assault weapon" for the purpose of the
ban. <snip>

941.285 Possession of assault weapons. (1) In this section:
AB222,3,1515 (a) "Assault weapon" means any of the following:

1. A semiautomatic, center-fire, or pump-action rifle that has the capacity to
accept a detachable magazine and has any of the following:
a. A pistol grip.
b. A folding, telescoping, or thumbhole stock.
c. A 2nd handgrip or protruding grip that can be held by the nontrigger hand.
d. A shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel,
    but excluding a slide that encloses the barrel.
e. A muzzle brake or muzzle compensator.
f. A grenade launcher or a flare launcher.
g. A flash suppressor.
h. A forward pistol grip.

2. A semiautomatic pistol, or any semiautomatic, centerfire rifle with a fixed magazine, that has the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

3. A semiautomatic, centerfire rifle that has an overall length of less than 30
    inches.

4. A semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable
     magazine and has any of the following:
 a. A threaded barrel capable of accepting a flash suppressor, forward handgrip,
    or silencer.
 b. A folding, telescoping, or thumbhole stock.
 c. A 2nd handgrip or protruding grip that can be held by the nontrigger hand.
 d. A shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel,
     but excluding a slide that encloses the barrel.
 e. A muzzle brake or muzzle compensator.

5. A semiautomatic shotgun that has any of the following:
  a. A pistol grip, thumbhole stock, or vertical handgrip and a folding or
     telescoping stock.
  b. A fixed magazine capacity in excess of 5 rounds.
  c. An ability to accept a detachable magazine.

6. A shotgun with a revolving cylinder.

7. A conversion kit or parts from which an assault weapon can be assembled
   if all of the kit or parts are in the control of the same person.
(am) "Detachable magazine" means any ammunition feeding device, the
         function of which is to deliver one or more ammunition cartridges into the firing chamber, that can be                  removed   from the firearm without any tool, bullet, or ammunition cartridge.

(b) "Firearms dealer" has the meaning given in s. 175.35 (1) (ar).

(c) 1. "Large-capacity magazine" means any ammunition feeding device that
            has the capacity to accept more than 7 rounds.

2. "Large-capacity magazine" does not include any of the following:
      a. A 22-caliber tube ammunition feeding device.
      b. A tubular magazine that is contained in a lever-action firearm.

(cg) "Muzzle brake" means a device that is attached to the muzzle of a weapon
         and that uses escaping gas to reduce recoil.

(cr) "Muzzle compensator" means a device that is attached to the muzzle of a
        weapon and that uses escaping gas to control muzzle movement.

(d) "Rifle" has the meaning given in s. 941.28 (1) (a).

(e) "Semiautomatic" means that the firearm is a repeating firearm that
     requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge and that uses a portion
     of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and to place
     another unfired cartridge into the chamber.

(f) "Shotgun" has the meaning given in s. 941.28 (1) (d).