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Milwaukee PD Targets Concealed Carry, Demands Law Change

Milwaukee PD Targets Concealed Carry, Demands Law Change

| March 13, 2012 | 13 Comments

The head of Milwaukee’s police force — notorious anti-gunner Chief Ed Flynn — is demanding changes to Wisconsin’s new concealed weapons law, changes that will seriously infringe the rights of gun owners. This despite the fact that the new law has not caused any problems but has in fact begun to thwart crime.

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Download: WGO Newsletter, Fall 2011

Download: WGO Newsletter, Fall 2011

| December 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

The Fall 2011 issue of The Wisconsin Gun Owner, the official quarterly newsletter of WGO, covers CCW Permits, the Don’t Buy List, Van Hollen’s concealed carry training, castle doctrine and the business of concealed carry.

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Wisconsin Concealed Carry: Sell-Out Exposed

Wisconsin Concealed Carry: Sell-Out Exposed

| May 10, 2011 | 8 Comments

Assembly Speaker Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald (R-39) has been bullying freshmen republicans into a carry-by-permit bill – what we now know is the NRA’s much-hailed Personal Protection Act – even though newly-elected tea-party candidates vowed to introduce a Constitutional Carry bill.

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Concealed Carry Proposals Circulated But Beware Permit-to-Carry Scheme

Concealed Carry Proposals Circulated But Beware Permit-to-Carry Scheme

| May 5, 2011 | 13 Comments

Wisconsin republicans float a permit-to-carry bill that could sabotage true constitutional concealed carry, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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CCW: NRA Opposed to Mandatory Training?

CCW: NRA Opposed to Mandatory Training?

| April 25, 2011 | 13 Comments

NRA members who protested the organization’s tendency to compromise start to see the fruits of their work as a sea change sweeps NRA leadership into the no mandatory training camp on Wisconsin concealed carry. Could it really be?

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Download: WGO Newsletter, Winter 2011

Download: WGO Newsletter, Winter 2011

| March 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

The WGO Winter Newsletter 2011 covers constitutional carry with Richard Church from Campaign for Liberty and Larry Pratt of GOA. Also a look at a new proposed ban on high cap mags and ATF’s assault on tactical shotgun importation.

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Milwaukee: Judge Rules Concealed Carry Law Unconstitutional

Milwaukee: Judge Rules Concealed Carry Law Unconstitutional

| February 15, 2011 | 3 Comments

In the ongoing evolution of Wisconsin gun law, a Milwaukee County judge has ruled the state’s ban on concealed weapons unconstitutional as applied to a man who had an unloaded, encased gun under his car seat three days after he had been robbed at gunpoint in the same area of the city.

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WGO Leads Concealed Carry Media Blast

| February 7, 2011 | 9 Comments

After being twice rebuffed, gun rights advocates are now confident that a concealed carry law will be implemented in Wisconsin. But there are some concerns over what form the law will take.

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Why Should Concealed Carry Burden Sheriff’s Departments?

Why Should Concealed Carry Burden Sheriff’s Departments?

| December 30, 2010 | 3 Comments

County Sheriffs don’t want a burdensome permit process. And who can blame them?

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NRA: Vermont the “Model” for Wisconsin Concealed Carry

NRA: Vermont the “Model” for Wisconsin Concealed Carry

| December 29, 2010 | 1 Comment

The NRA says Vermont and Alaska will be their model for concealed carry in the upcoming session. Before you rush that donation off to Mr. Lapierre, let’s see if their actions match those words.

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