What are Gun Policies on School Grounds in Wisconsin?

A 17-year-old Superior High School student is facing felony charges after police found guns in a vehicle on school property. 

Police found three guns in the car in the high school parking lot yesterday. 

The guns were not cased at the time and not loaded. 

The teen was arrested and charges of Possession of a Firearm in a School Zone are pending. 

According to Superior School District policy, any student who brings a firearm on school grounds will go before the school for an expulsion hearing where the board will determine whether to expel them.

Both the school and police tell us this is something they take very seriously. 

“When you’re seeing weapons that are visible in a vehicle, you know, the first thing that we want to do is make sure that everybody here is safe. There was a really rapid follow-up to determine the situation behind that,” said Kent Bergum, Superior High School Principal. 

“Schools should be safe zones and we shouldn’t have firearms at schools, if at all possible. Obviously law enforcement has firearms but the students and/or the staff or the citizens, really, there isn’t a reason to have it on them,” said Tom Champaigne, Captain of Investigations for the Superior Police Department. 

Under Wisconsin law, firearms are allowed on school property, however, they must be cased or in a locking mechanism and unloaded.