Category: Wisconsin
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CCW arrest in WI
A Marshall man faces concealed weapon charges after allegedly taking a loaded gun to a Sun Prairie Wal-Mart to buy more ammunition. According to a criminal complaint, police were called to the Wal-Mart at around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 11. Upon arriving, they reportedly saw 26-year-old Ricky Rollert wearing body armor and a duty…
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Gotta get those priorities straight
Serial CCW vetoing Governor Jim Doyle spent a good part of Tuesday at a golf outing to raise campaign funds while Wisconsin was dealing with flooding that caused millions of dollars in damage, including washing away houses. Doyle spokesman Lee Sensenbrenner said the governor attended “part of” his campaign’s sixth annual golf outing at University…
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Background check stats
Not quite sure what to make of this, but the Medical College of Wisconsin released a study that gun suicide and homicide rates were about 25% lower in states that did local background checks as opposed to state or federal checks. It does strike me from the map that a) there are not that many…
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Wisconsin issues a concealed carry permit to an ex-officer
Madison – Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen for the first time issued a state permit Wednesday allowing a retired investigator to carry a concealed firearm. Van Hollen’s decision lays bare the differing opinions among law enforcement agencies about whether they should – or even can – issue permits to retired officers in one of only two…
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Another useless restraining order
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports Gerhard Witte, the 70-year-old physician charged Wednesday with slitting his ex-wife’s throat in a downtown parking garage, repeatedly threatened to kill the woman after she filed for divorce in early 2005, once telling police he wouldn’t need a gun because “he is a medical doctor, and he knows precisely where to cut…
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Real Estate agent found dead
The A.P. is reporting a story out of Wisconsin of a 71 year old real estate agent, Ann B. Nelson, who was found dead in a house she had been showing earlier in the day. She was found in a bedroom with a smoldering mattress and wounds to her head. This certainly looks like a…
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Wisconsin’s Katrina Law
It looks like Wisconsin’s Governor Doyle finally got one right. Yesterday he signed AB-581, the “Katrina Bill”, into law. The bill prevents anyone with emergency powers, such as in a time of natural disaster or extreme civil unrest, from confiscating or restricting legally owned firearms and ammunition. While it may be unthinkable to some, this…