Stupid question but: was he not charged on carrying a weapon across state line?

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19. Rittenhouse's money was used

In testimony, it was stated Rittenhouse gave his friend money he received from his $1200 stimulus check to purchase the gun. They both admitted it.

The friend is charged with two counts of providing a minor with a deadly weapon causing death. He's charged under a Wisconsin law not a federal one.

I think - and really don't quote me on this, because I am not familiar with gun laws, but tried looking it all up at the time - that the reason you don't see the federal charge is because Rittenhouse never had full legal possession. The gun was purchased and stored in a gun safe in Wisconsin, and Rittenhouse had only ever used it under the "owner's" supervision. It is legal in Wisconsin to provide a minor with a gun as long as the owner has legal possession of it. That's how the hunting exemptions work.

So this could either be a technicality or an interpretation. I could be so very wrong on this.

If someone familiar with the law has clear, definitive answers, I'm all ears. I tried finding the answer to this and never found anything that made me feel like I fully understood. But that is my fuzzy understanding of why we never saw federal charges come from it. It was always a "loaned" weapon, and storing it in the safe and not Rittenhouse's residence is how they skirted around it. But once Rittenhouse started wandering the streets with it without his friend present, then it became a crime.

I *think*