Posted by
Zach on August 12, 2010, at 5:51 am
Yesterday I highlighted the new radio ad, “Stuff,” being run by Sen. Russ Feingold’s campaign, and on the heels of that ad getting some radio time across the state comes news that one of Sen. Feingold’s Republican challengers, businessman (and empty suit) Ron Johnson is retracting statements he made earlier this summer supporting the [...]
Posted by
Zach on June 30, 2010, at 9:00 pm
Shortly after the U.S Supreme Court issued its decision in McDonald v. Chicago a case in which the City of Chicago’s ban on handguns was challenged, Senator Russ Feingold issued a statement in support of the Supreme Court’s decision: “I am pleased that the Supreme Court has held that the Second Amendment applies equally [...]
Posted by
Zach on June 11, 2010, at 8:24 am
The campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Neumann is out with a new ad, this one attacking Scott Walker’s flip-flop on concealed carry:
Posted by
Zach on April 15, 2010, at 5:44 am
In a recent video he posted lamenting the erosion of our second amendment rights, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave Westlake noted that gun owners, children who want to learn to shoot guns, and gun dealers have been demonized, and Westlake goes on to say gun dealers and outdoor sportsmen “are some of the most [...]
Posted by
Zach on December 3, 2009, at 5:09 am
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
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 [...]
Posted by
Zach on May 13, 2009, at 7:52 pm
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 [...]
Posted by
Zach on May 13, 2009, at 3:39 am
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 [...]
Posted by
Zach on May 5, 2009, at 3:32 pm
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 on April 5, 2009, at 10:47 am
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 [...]
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