Dear Fellow Patriot,

Congrats to Tim K., of Neenah, winner of our last AR-15 Giveaway!

Our first AR-15 giveaway was so successful we’re doing it again…

The fight to preserve our firearm rights here in Wisconsin has never been more critical. That’s why we’re  giving away a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and Leatherwood CMR AR Scope valued at an estimated $1242.

By entering this giveaway you get a chance to win a rifle that is virtually impossible to find at any gun store … while supporting WGO and Wisconsin gun rights at the same time.

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The drawing for this superb rifle is on Friday, May 31, 2013 . . . but you can’t win unless you sign up.

That’s why it’s important you click on the image above to sign up for your chance to win RIGHT NOW!

We’ll contact you after Friday, May 31, if you are the winner.

Good luck .. and Thanks for signing up!

Yours for Freedom,

Corey Graff
Executive Director

P.S. – Don’t forget, you can’t win unless you sign up by clicking here.

DISCLAIMER: No purchase or donation necessary to win. Void where prohibited. Must be a Wisconsin resident to be eligible to win. Winner drawn randomly via CPA-certified process. Firearms prizes must be claimed through a licensed firearms dealer in accordance with federal and Wisconsin law. Firearms prize winners must meet all legal requirements and will be subject to a dealer’s background check.  Click here for official rules.

At the 2013 SHOT Show, Ted Nugent addressed the current assault on the Second Amendment. Most notable was his response to the question, Why do you ‘NEED’ an AR-15?

Take Action

1. Sign the Online Petition Against the Semi-Auto Ban

2. Join, Renew or Make a Donation to Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. (WGO). With the Second Amendment in grave danger following the chilling exploitation by gun control proponents of the tragic Newtown shooting, and the very real danger that the institutional gun lobby could sell out before the fight begins, your support of Wisconsin’s Only No-Compromise Gun Rights Organization is more critical now than ever before.

Please consider chipping in $10, $25, $50 or more to this pro-gun fight.

WGO Analysis and Highlights from the NRA Press Conference 12/21/12

Good:

• NRA leadership correctly identified the lack of armed response in schools. WAYNE LAPIERRE: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

Bad:

• Failed to call for armed teachers (at the 1999 NRA Annual Convention, Wayne Lapierre said: “First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America’s schools, period, with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained security personnel.”)
• Refused to mention “concealed carry”
• Failed to strongly state ownership of semi-automatics protected by the Second Amendment
• Advocated increased police presence rather than armed citizens in schools: WAYNE LAPIERRE: “I call on Congress today, to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation.”

WGO Analysis and Highlights of Wayne Lapierre’s Appearance on Meet the Press 12/23/12:

Good:

• Stated opposition to high-capacity mag ban. DAVID GREGORY: “You wouldn’t support any reduction of capacity magazines?” WAYNE LAPIERRE: “We don’t think it works and we’re not going to support it.”

Bad:

• Failed to call for armed teachers (Wayne Lapierre at the 1999 NRA Annual Convention: “First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America’s schools, period, with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained security personnel.”)
• Refused to mention “concealed carry”
• Advocated Project Exile (report “Illegal Guns” national stasi-like snitch system, with 100% prosecution – enforcing unconstitutional gun law rather than repealing it)
• Admitted NRA pushed unconstitutional Brady Checks (NICS)
• Advocated stronger NICS system and more integration with mental health records (read, “Why NRA is Nuts to Expand Background Checks“)

No Mention of Armed Teachers

LaPierre’s model for school safety was a program “like they have an Israel … they put armed security in every school and they haven’t had a problem [since].”

Scary: NRA Calls for National Mental Records Database

“We have no national database of these lunatics. The records are not even in the system…we’ve got a completely cracked mentally ill system that’s got these monsters walking the streets.”

NRA Backs Sarah Brady’s Unconstitutional Background Check System

DAVID GREGORY: Isn’t part of the issue background checks? You have 40 percent of the sales that go on without any background checks, are you prepared to back broader background checks?

WAYNE LAPIERRE: We have backed the National Instant Check System, we have backed putting anyone adjudicated mentally incompetent into the system … we have supported prison building. We have supported Project Exile, where everytime you catch a criminal with a gun, a drug dealer with a gun, a violent felon with a gun, you prosecute them 100 percent of the time… we’ve supported the instant check system, we’ve supported getting these records into the instant check system.

Lapierre Admits NRA Supports Gun Free School Zones (Criminal Safe Zones)

WAYNE LAPIERRE at the 1999 NRA Annual Convention: “First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America’s schools, period, with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained security personnel.”

More Analysis by David Codrea: http://www.examiner.com/article/nra-and-lapierre-unite-disarmament-advocates-as-gun-owners-remain-divided

Take Action

1. Sign the Online Petition Against the Semi-Auto Ban

2. Join, Renew or Make a Donation to Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. (WGO). With the Second Amendment in grave danger following the chilling exploitation by gun control proponents of the tragic Newtown shooting, and the very real danger that the institutional gun lobby could sell out before the fight begins, your support of Wisconsin’s Only No-Compromise Gun Rights Organization is more critical now than ever before.

Please consider chipping in $10, $25, $50 or more to this pro-gun fight.

Watch Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America use reason and facts to dismantle the hysterical nonsense of anti-gun media activist Piers Morgan.

We also recommend you read Larry Pratt’s Newtown Shooting: Blood On Their Hands

Take Action

1. Sign the Online Petition Against the Semi-Auto Ban

2. Join, Renew or Make a Donation to Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. (WGO). With the Second Amendment in grave danger following the chilling exploitation by gun control proponents of the tragic Newtown shooting, and the very real danger that the institutional gun lobby could sell out before the fight begins, your support of Wisconsin’s Only No-Compromise Gun Rights Organization is more critical now than ever before.

Please consider chipping in $10, $25, $50 or more to this pro-gun fight.

In addition to the gunman, blood is on the hands of members of Congress and the Connecticut legislators who voted to ban guns from all schools in Connecticut (and most other states). They are the ones who made it illegal to defend oneself with a gun in a school when that is the only effective way of resisting a gunman.

What a lethal, false security are the “gun-free zone” laws. Virtually all mass murders in the past 20 years have occurred in gun-free zones. The two people murdered several days earlier in a shopping center in Oregon were also killed in a gun-free zone.

Hopefully, the Connecticut tragedy will be the tipping point after which a rising chorus of Americans will demand elimination of the gun-free zone laws that are in fact criminal-safe zones.

One measure of insanity is repeating the same failure time after time, hoping that the next time the failure will turn out to be a success. Gun-free zones are a lethal insanity.

Israel finally came to grips with this in the early 1970s and have decisively stopped these attacks after a busload of children was massacred by Muslim terrorists. When I was there in the late 1990s, if you saw a busload of students, you saw at least one young teacher with a machine gun protecting the groups of students.

The Israelis have decisively stopped these school-related attacks and proved they want to live. Do we?

During the decade of the Clinton ban on semiautomatic rifles (the so-called assault weapons) and high-capacity magazines, crime did not go down. Reinstating it would simply be another example of repeating the same failed policy and being surprised with the same failed result.

We must tell our elected officials that they are acting as the criminals’ friends as long as they continue to support legislation that protects only criminals, not decent people.

Oh, and we must also insist that these criminal-friendly elected officials not even try to blame gun owners and our “gun culture” for what a criminal did.

Had a few of us been available with guns at the Newtown school, most of the victims might still be alive.

Source: Gun Owners of America.

TIMELINE: OBAMA RAMPING UP TO REINSTATE SEMI-AUTO BAN?

2009: White House Plans Revealed to Reinstate and Make Permanent the Semi-Auto Ban

President Obama and Vice-President Biden, “support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent,” the White House website declares. Shortly after taking office, members of the Obama cabinet added their voices of agreement.- Msnbc.com

2009: Attorney General Eric Holder Confirms Plans

“…As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons. I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum.” – Attorney General Eric Holder February 26, 2009 abcnews.com

2012 Election Campaign: Obama States Intentions

“…what I’m trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally. Part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced.” – President Barack Obama Debate 2, Oct. 16, 2012 abcnews.com

2012: Sen. Feinstein Reported to Be Moving on Bill

“I just heard that Sen. Feinstein’s attorney is meeting right now with folks from FTB and ATF legal (Eric Epstein [legal], Todd Martin [Legal] and Earl Griffith [FTB] and others) to discuss a new SAW ban, that she would want to start pushing through as soon as (if) Obama gets reelected.

• No pistol grip allowed
• No HC Mags
• No grandfathering
• No sale permissible if in possession”

- Email from a source purported to be forwarded from Lawrence G. Keane, Senior Vice President, Assistant Secretary and General Counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, as reported by David Codrea, Gun Rights Examiner

2012: Larry Pratt Warns Obama Could Use Dictatorial Executive Orders

“But what I do see is more below the radar, perhaps through executive order, telling gun stores not to sell guns that are perfectly legal to sell,” Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America said in this 11/27/12 story from worldnetdaily.com.

He foresees the possibility of executive orders by Obama that would bar the sale of any handgun over the caliber of .380 and any long gun that can accept a high capacity magazine.

OVERVIEW OF THE CAMPAIGN

President Barack Obama, feeling emboldened after his reelection victory, and willing to exploit recent mass shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin, is working with democrats in Congress to make the nightmare gun ban – first passed in the Clinton-era banning certain semi-automatic firearms — a reality.

THREAT

The President not only wants to reinstate the ban on semi-automatics but expand it to include handguns and make it permanent. WGO is concerned with the broader threat by democrats but also the possibility that many of the republicans will be willing to accept a compromise. Our plan is to stop them on both fronts by mobilizing gun owners statewide to lobby Wisconsin’s congressional delegation – both parties if necessary — to oppose the ban in any form it may be proposed.

OBJECTIVES

Pressure Senators Baldwin and Johnson – and our reps – to oppose this ban by applied grassroots lobbying.

STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES

WGO can concentrate on pulling Wisconsin to the right side of this issue. As a state-based gun lobby, we are uniquely positioned to organize at the local level. Donations will be used to wage a campaign of concentrated fire right here in Wisconsin, including:

• Petition and postcard drive
• E-mail/online petition program
• Media

PAST SUCCESSES

The members and supporters of Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. (WGO) were integral in opposing and defeating the latest attempts to resurrect the so-called “assault weapons” ban (2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008), working at the state level and alongside a national coalition of other state-level and national pro-gun organizations. Members’ past donations provided the resources to win. Your contribution today will give us the ammo to stop this ban again.

OPERATIONAL NEEDS

Substantial financial support to operate all phases of this campaign, from mail and phone banks to on-the-ground volunteer coordination.

Please consider chipping in $10, $25, $50 or more to this pro-gun fight.

Sign the Online Petitions Against the Semi-Auto Ban

Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. is a 501(c)4 non-profit, registered charitable organization with the State of Wisconsin. Donations made to Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. are not deductible for income tax purposes. Thank you!

WGO Director Teno Groppi meets with Rep. Ron Paul in Iowa.

In his final farewell speech, Rep. Ron Paul (R) last week blasted congress as a bunch of “psychopathic authoritarians” and minced no words on the failure of our representatives to uphold liberty.

Dr. Paul correctly identifies the attack on U.S. sovereignty and systemic deterioration of freedom — from an  out-of-control debt spiral to the coming assaults on the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

TAKE ACTION

If the problems identified by Ron Paul concern you, we encourage you to join Wisconsin Gun Owners (WGO). We’re the only state-based no-compromise gun lobby holding politicians from both parties accountable for the onward march toward tyranny.

Please consider chipping in $10, $25, $50 or more to this pro-gun fight.

Sign the Online Survey Against the Semi-Auto Ban

The Official Publication of Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc.

Issue: Vol. VIII No. 1

Inside this Issue

• Dems Target Semi-Autos
• Shootings Exploited
• DOJ Permanent CCW Rules
• Candidate Survey Results
• Constitutional Carry

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Paul Ryan blurts out his real views on the existing unconstitutional gun laws used to persecute American gun owners. According to Ryan, we have  “good, strong gun laws” that, according to him, need to not only remain on the books but be more strictly enforced!

The video above, which made the rounds on the Internet last week, was put forward by some gun groups as a supposed example of congressman Paul Ryan presenting a strong defense against further gun controls when pressed by a reporter. Ryan, who earned an F from WGO after his refusal to return a simple gun rights survey, said new laws weren’t needed.

Paul Ryan’s Views on Guns: Lipstick on a Pig Argument

What are Paul Ryan's real views on the Second Amendment?

Gun rights organizations clinging to Ryan’s opposition to new laws miss the bigger issue, which is that Ryan admits the existing laws — unconstitutional gun control laws  infringing on the rights of gun owners — are in essence “good.” This implies those laws need to remain on the books.

The statement comes as no surprise as Ryan’s own comments exactly mirror those made for years by the National Rifle Association (NRA) — who recently endorsed Ryan in the election — namely that we don’t need new gun laws, we just simply need to enforce existing laws.

That makes for a great sound bite, but think about how transparent and utterly disastrous to the pro-gun cause it truly is.

It means we will never be able to gain back lost ground. We’ll never be able to repeal the gun control laws on the books.

It’s a way for the neoconservatives to try to appear reasonable by conceding that the existing laws on the books not only have the ability to “work” if only enforcement were ratcheted up, but that these anti-gun measures will work so well that the gun banners need not propose any more anti-gun laws.

In reality, this flimsy attempt at appeasement only legitimizes and cements in place the existing gun bans and myriad regulations: It capitulates to the anti-gunners’ assertion that gun control is acceptable.

Question: Would a Romney-Ryan administration oppose gun owner attempts to repeal existing unconstitutional gun law? Would Ryan finish the work of the original demonic drafters of these draconian-nightmare-come-true gun laws by actually implementing stronger enforcement of them?

In his own words, he said he would.

If that happens, get ready for a new wave of gun owner persecution.

Paul Ryan tried to appear pro-gun, but the argument he used accomplished the opposite of his intended effect. And proved that the neo-conservatives are still working hard to fashion the chains that bind us.

WGO believes we don’t need to enforce existing gun laws, we need to repeal them. Join and Support Wisconsin Gun Owners — we work for gun owners, not politicians.

Click here to view WGO’s 2012 Candidate Ratings

About These Ratings

These ratings do not imply endorsement of or opposition to candidates. Those candidates who earned “A” ratings  may be downgraded over time if they become obstinate — or upgraded if there is improvement, though the path down is much faster than the path up. These ratings are not designed to be a “voter’s guide.” All candidates for the Wisconsin legislature and congress are surveyed in July following the registration deadline, giving every candidate, regardless of party, equal opportunity and time to respond. All candidates are informed in writing that a failure to respond results in an automatic failing grade (F). However, completing the candidate survey satisfactorily will not guarantee the candidate a favorable ranking. Voting record and attitude are also taken into account.

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