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Posted by Zach W on December 3, 2009, at 5:09 am

A sobering statistic

Number of gun-related deaths in Britain in 2005: fewer than 100

Number of gun-related deaths in the United States in 2005 (most recent statistics available): over 30,000

Posted by AL on October 9, 2009, at 8:38 am

Tell Me Again About the need for Conceal and Carry

LEBANON, Pa — A suburban mother who became a voice of the gun-rights movement when she openly carried a loaded pistol to her daughter’s soccer game was fatally shot Wednesday along with her parole-officer husband in an apparent murder-suicide at their home in Pennsylvania Dutch country, authorities said.

A car parked in the driveway bore [...]

Posted by Zach W on May 13, 2009, at 7:52 pm

A reader’s thoughts on “open carry” in Wisconsin

I’ve written a little bit about my thoughts on gun control, and more specifically, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s advisory memorandum that opined that the open carrying of firearms by citizens in Wisconsin is in fact perfectly legal, as long as those pistol-packing individuals don’t bark at a passerby or brandish a handgun in [...]

Posted by Zach W on May 13, 2009, at 3:39 am

Hubert Hoffman’s throwing a picnic!

Hubert Hoffman is throwing a picnic to celebrate the joys of carrying firearms in public, and he’s inviting all his friends:

Hubert Hoffman says he’s a law abiding citizen of Onalaska and he says he’s following the law when he wears his loaded pistol while he mows his lawn.

“It appears to be that there is this [...]

Posted by Zach W on May 5, 2009, at 3:32 pm

St. Francis Alderman supports limiting open carry

Though I didn’t blog about it at the time, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen issued an advisory memorandum a few weeks ago that opined that the open carrying of firearms by citizens in Wisconsin is in fact perfectly legal, so long as those pistol-packing individuals don’t bark at a passerby or brandish a [...]

Posted by Zach W on April 5, 2009, at 10:47 am

Gunman kills three Pittsburgh cops, blames possible gun ban

A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and “lying in wait” opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday, killing three of them and turning a quiet Pittsburgh street into a battlefield, according to Pittsburgh police. The subject, Richard Poplawski, met officers at the doorway when they responded to a domestic disturbance [...]

Posted by Zach W on November 15, 2008, at 10:10 pm

A run on guns?!?

According to an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, handgun purchases in Wisconsin skyrocketed 82% in the days before and after Barack Obama’s election as president compared with the same 13 days in November last year. Now while I can understand why some folks might rush to buy assault rifles with the notion those [...]

Posted by Zach W on October 16, 2008, at 12:22 am

Gard: “I’m taking my guns and I’m going home!”

Boy, things sure are getting bad for Republicans here in Wisconsin. After learning the National Rifle Association endorsed Congressman Steve Kagen, to whom Republican John Gard lost the 2006 race in Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District, Gard said he won’t be renewing his membership with the NRA. In an interview with Politico, Gard made [...]

Posted by Zach W on July 4, 2008, at 6:13 pm

Do More Guns=Less Crime?

I’ve heard a lot of conservatives talk about how Wisconsin’s citizens need more guns, as if our state’s lack of concealed carry laws have made our citizens somehow unsafe. “More guns” seems to be a common mantra among conservatives, but their rationale that more guns equals less crime simply doesn’t hold water if one [...]