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We told you last month that Wisconsin Carry Inc., a gun rights advocacy group, had a problem with Madison's bus system because it banned firearms, and you knew it probably meant a lawsuit was coming.

It arrived on Wednesday, in Dane County Circuit Court, in the form of a petition for declaratory judgment.

Wisconsin Carry believes Act 35, the law that allowed Wisconsin residents to obtain a permit to carry concealed weapons and legalized transport of guns in vehicles, pre-empts Metro Transit from preventing passengers from bringing guns on its buses or to bus shelters.

City officials told the Wisconsin State Journal they had declined Wisconsin Carry's request to change the policy, believe it is lawful, and are prepared to defend the lawsuit.

John Monroe, a lawyer from Georgia who has represented Wisconsin Carry and various of its members in several other successful lawsuits around Wisconsin, is the attorney in the Metro Transit case as well.

One of the successful actions was against Madison; the city paid $10,000 to settle a Wisconsin Carry lawsuit over the arrests and citation of gun wearing patrons at Culver's in 2010.