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MADISON, Wis.— Carrying concealed weapons in Wisconsin would be legalized under Republican-backed bills unveiled Wednesday.

The Wisconsin measure has a good chance, since Republicans control the Senate and the Assembly, and GOP Gov. Scott Walker has indicated he supports the idea. Republicans passed it in 2003 and 2006, but it was vetoed both times by then-Gov. Jim Doyle, a Democrat.

The Wisconsin bills are moving quickly. Bill sponsors Sen. Pam Galloway, R-Wausau, and Rep. Jeff Mursau, R-Crivitz, circulated the proposals Wednesday with a deadline of Monday for co-sponsors. A Senate hearing in Wausau was scheduled for May 12 and the Assembly was expected to hold one in Madison that same day.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said he didn't expect the bill would be ready for a vote this month. When it comes up depends on when its sponsors and others can reach agreement on what form the proposal should take, he said.

One of their bills would require someone to obtain a license to carry a concealed weapon while the other proposal would not require obtaining a license.

"It's time for Wisconsin to fully recognize the right of all its citizens to preserve their security and the security of their families," Mursau said in a statement. "Criminals in Wisconsin are going to have to start asking themselves if their potential crimes are worth the risk of encountering someone ready to fully defend themselves."

Current Wisconsin law carries with it a fine of up to $10,000 and nine months in jail for anyone who carries a concealed weapon, although there are exceptions for current and retired law enforcement officers. Courts have also ruled that business owners and homeowners can carry concealed weapons in some instances.

Under the bill creating the licensing system, people 21 years old and over could apply to obtain a license valid for five years at a time from the state Department of Justice. Applicants would have to pay a $13 background check fee and an application fee of up to $52.

No training would be required for the person to obtain the license.

Concealed weapons would not be allowed in police stations, jails, courthouses, beyond the security checkpoint in airports, or on school grounds. Homeowners, businesses and governments could also prohibit concealed weapons on their property.

That is much looser than current state law, which generally prohibits firearms in any public building, tavern, state park or wildlife refuge or within 1,000 feet of school grounds.

Under the bill, convicted felons, convicted domestic abusers, anyone with a restraining order against them and anyone committing a crime could not legally carry a concealed weapon.

Concealed weapons are defined as a handgun, an electric weapon, a billy club or a knife other than a switchblade.


MONTROSE, IOWA -- The number of weapons carry permit holders in Lee County continues to rise.

It's been about 45 days since the State of Iowa allowed people to apply for a weapon permit that would allow them to carry concealed weapons.

Before January 1, 2011 there was a more restrictive law on the books that allowed permits to be issued by the county sheriff at his or her discretion.

But now about 99% of the people who apply for a permit to carry a gun are granted the license.

A total of 650 permits have been granted in those 45 days.

Only three have been denied.

We were told the majority of applicants have been 30 years of age or older.

 

I guess he wont need to carry???

Mayor Daley is requesting a retinue of at least three — around the clock — Chicago Police bodyguards from his mayoral security detail to accompany him into the private sector!

Daley initially asked for five bodyguards, but that may have included a number needed for constant surveillance.

 

"A Message From ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson

5 May 2011

I know you are all down in the dumps about today’s vote but you should not be. I’m not saying you should be happy either. Be pragmatic. That will be hard for everyone on our side of this issue, I realize.

We put 68 votes on the board our first time out. That is great. I know in the end we wound up with 65 and we needed 71. The Mayor and the Governor were threatening everyone they could and we only missed by a few votes. We had promises that weren’t kept, because the threats from the mayor carried more weight than we could deliver, today.

That’s life in Springfield. I know many of you and many of our members see things in black and white. If you ever come across anything in Springfield that is either pure white or completely black run away as fast as you can. It’s a trap. Ask some of our former Governors!

We know who voted one way or the other and why. We will take care of it. I’m not saying that some people shouldn’t be put in the spot light, but not all should because that will solidify their position against us. Some need to be finessed.

If there were a few legislators that need to be in the spotlight, Farnham, Crespo, and Monique Davis would be the three that I would pick.

So where are we? The bill was put on postponed consideration. That means it can be called anytime between now and the second Wednesday in 2013. Now that we have probed and found out the weak spots we can begin working on the bill again.

Firearm owners in Illinois are not the second class citizens Mayor Daley makes us out to be. He asked today for a publically funded protection detail, once he is retired! Once he is retired, he is a common citizen just like the rest of us. I can’t get the state of Illinois or my city to provide me with armed guards to watch out for me and neither should he.

Fox News Chicago reported this evening that NRA will file a law suit against the state of Illinois and there will be NO input from the Legislature once litigation commences. I am not sure what their sources are, but it was alluded to during the closing statement at the end of debate.

Representative Phelps put a lot of work into this bill. He invited all sides in to negotiate any issues they had with the bill. Conspicuously absent from those discussions was the city of Chicago. They were invited, but never even gave the courtesy of a response.

ISRA Members and our supporters are not quitters and we’re not done. Adversity makes us stronger! We WILL WIN THIS!"

 

FYI for Chicagoans, then I guess it’s back to all things Corvette for me...

“5 steps to getting a gun in Chicago
A guide to Chicago’s gun ordinance.
By Jake Malooley

1. Send for a Firearm Owners Identification Card.
You can’t get into a bar without ID and you can’t get a gun without an Illinois State Police–issued FOID. Fill out the application and tape on a head shot that doesn’t make you look like a maniac.
Cost $10
Wait time Up to 30 days

2. Complete a firearms safety course.
State-certified instructors (most gun ranges offer the class) teach the basics, from the safest direction to point a gun (yes, there is one) to proper aim.
Cost $125–$135 (includes course, gun rental and ammunition)
Wait time Four hours of class; one hour at a range

3. Apply for a Chicago Firearms Permit.
Along with the signed affidavit from the firearms instructor, submit the yellow CFP application (available at chicagopolice.org) at the police records division, 4770 South Kedzie Avenue. Afterward, grab some Crazy Bread from the Little Caesars in the same strip mall.
Cost $100
Wait time Up to 30 days

4. Purchase a gun.
Once the CFP arrives, it’s time to go shop-ping! Gun sales are banned in the city, so a trip to the ’burbs is necessary.
Cost $300–$400 for used guns; $5 background check
Wait time 72 hours

5. Register the firearm.
Very important: A new gun must be registered within five business days of purchase. Miss that deadline and your brand-new firearm is deemed unregisterable. Fill out the form (available at chicagopolice.org) with details like serial number, barrel length and when you carried it into the city, and file it at the 4770 South Kedzie Avenue building (but leave the gun at home, Yosemite Sam). You can’t travel with the gun until you receive the registration, but you can keep it in your home.
Cost $15
Wait time Up to 30 days for the registration to turn up in your mailbox.”

 

Quick Silver Z & Fellow Patriots,

Thank you for your past and ongoing efforts.

With your leadership and hard work Americans will regain our world-wide renown for building The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave.

Everyday more Americans are realizing how much they should treasure, and how vast is their debt to the Brave such as you who allow us to live Free.

Thank you,

Peter

 

Appreciated PeterSG but I am only the messenger. Many have poured their heart and soul into this cause and the good news is they are now more determined than ever to see this through!

 

Your tax dollars in action...

 

I couldn't even watch the whole thing.
I find the whole situation disgusting.
The only way to get these clowns under control is make them abide by the same laws they pass for us.
Who the hell does Daly think he is.........armed guards for him and his family and screw everyone else? If I were a resident of Chicago, I'd be pissed, and unless he passed a cc law, no bodyguards for him.
How quick do you think he'll change his mind?
And Quinn, he says he'll veto anything that crosses his desk?
How does that represent the 90-95% of constituents that want this law?
What ever happened to "of the people for the people"?
Remember the words "taxation without representation", and the ensuing revolution? Well it seems things are coming around full circle.

 

Right On, my man!

 

BELLEVUE, WA - Scheduled to retire from office next Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley remains a monumental hypocrite to the bitter end and his request for publicly-financed armed bodyguards proves it, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today

As Daley prepares to leave office, a Washington Times editorial bares the anti-gun Democrat’s hypocrisy. For years, Daley has had armed bodyguards protecting him at the same time he has worked fanatically to deprive his Chicago constituents and every other citizen in Illinois the same level of security, by pushing every crazy anti-gun scheme he or his colleagues could dream up.

Now he wants that same privilege to carry into retirement.

“Despite the city’s loss before the U.S. Supreme Court last year in McDonald v. City of Chicago – the landmark case won by the Second Amendment Foundation – Daley has continued to throw every roadblock possible in the path of law-abiding citizens who want to exercise their Second Amendment rights,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “They only want to feel the same sense of safety that Daley has enjoyed, at their expense, for years.

“If Daley wants armed bodyguards,” he continued, “then he needs to pay for them out of his own pocket. If one penny of public money is spent for Daley’s security, it will be an outrage.”

Gottlieb said it is disgusting for Daley to expect a different level of treatment than any other private citizen. Once he leaves public office, he should lose every perk, and that should start with losing his armed security team.

“Richard Daley is living proof of liberal anti-gun arrogance,” Gottlieb observed. “This man has devoted himself to disarming law-abiding citizens, leaving them to the mercy of inner city thugs who habitually disobey Chicago’s gun laws. If he truly believed that guns are bad, then he would drop his request and take his chances with 911 like all of the people whose rights he has trampled.”

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the Internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org.


Wisconsin updates here!!!
http://wisconsingunowners.org/2011/0...-carry-scheme/

 

By CAITLIN MULLEN - Daily Chronicle Government CenterSYCAMORE

The executive committee of the DeKalb County Board was split Tuesday night on whether to move forward with a resolution encouraging state representatives to vote in favor of concealed-carry legislation.

The committee voted 5-4 to approve the agenda for the May 18 county board meeting, which included a resolution to be voted on by the board that encourages state representatives to support concealed carry of weapons.

On Thursday, the Illinois House voted 65-32 on House Bill 148, giving the measure a solid majority.

But Riley Oncken, R-Sycamore, said the initial vote failed because they didn’t get the 71 votes needed, but it was given a status that allows it to be recalled for a future vote “if they can find the votes, basically.”

“It’s not completely dead, and it’s not going away, which is why, kind of, we’re agreeing to still send the resolution forward,” said Oncken, a member of the law and justice committee where the resolution originated. That committee voted 4-2 to send it forward, with members Stephen Reid, D-DeKalb, and Anita Turner, D-Sycamore, voting against it.

Board Vice Chairwoman Ruth Anne Tobias, D-DeKalb, said she was very unhappy with the resolution, “particularly at this time in DeKalb County’s situation.” She said she met with DeKalb and Sycamore city officials as well as those with Northern Illinois University on the issue.

“I think they were pretty upset that we would consider something like this now ...” Tobias said.

“This is a controversial issue. I don’t think the board should be taking a position on controversial issues like this, that we’re pretty well split on the board itself,” added Paul Stoddard, D-DeKalb.

When Chairman Larry Anderson, R-Malta, asked for a motion on the board agenda, committee members wanted to know why they couldn’t discuss the issue further. Anderson said he wanted to move the meeting along and discussions can be held at the county board meeting.

Julia Fauci, D-DeKalb; Pat Vary, D-DeKalb; Stoddard; and Tobias voted against moving the board agenda forward as presented.

 

this will never happen in this stupid azz state !

 

(I'm thinking duh here?)

A 20-year-old northwest Indiana man was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly tried to enter the Six Flags Great America amusement park with a loaded handgun.

A man and woman had handed in their admission tickets and were in the line waiting to enter the main gate of Six Flags at 9:41 a.m. Sunday, according to Gurnee police.

All guests at the park pass through metal detectors. Upon approaching the detectors, the couple started looking very nervous and refused to go forward, police said. The man eventually jumped out of the line and went back toward the parking lot.

Security officers were shouting for the man to stop but the woman also ran and they eventually went to their truck in the parking lot. A Gurnee police officer working in the park responded and saw the man running with his hand holding the waistband of his pants.

The officer stopped the pickup in the parking lot. As the officer approached, the woman yelled that there was a gun in the truck. She indicated she had a concealed carry permit from Indiana.

The couple searched and placed in a squad car, police said. A search of the truck found a loaded .40 caliber handgun under the driver’s seat.

The weapon was removed and the couple taken to the Gurnee Police Department. The 20-year-old woman, from Hammond, was released without charges. Her companion, Arthur Olvera, Jr., 21, of Hammond, was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, a Class 4 felony.

 

MADISON - Police officers, sheriff's deputies and people who live in Wisconsin will get their chance to speak about the issues of the potential legalizing of carrying concealed weapons and possible permits to do so.

A public hearing was set to happen on the subjects in Madison on Thursday.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke was to testify at 10:30 a.m. before a state assembly committee and offer his opinion in favor of concealed carry.

He believes Wisconsinites should be able to exercise their second amendment rights.

Wisconsin is one of only two states that ban any concealed weapons.

On Thursday, separate committees were to take up a bill that would allow people in Wisconsin to bear concealed weapons.

The question involves the way they would be allowed to do that.

One bill would require gun carriers to purchase a five-year permit.

Some say that training should be a requirement.

Others are pushing for another bill that would allow anyone who can lawfully have a gun carry one without a permit.

Clarke isn't so sure about the second plan, but he does think Wisconsin needs to take action.

"We are going to have some sort of 'C-C' regulation in this state. It is going to happen, and since it is going to happen, let's just do it prudent," said Clarke, who is also pushing for tougher punishments for offenders.

"If we're going to allow people to do that, and I don't have a problem with people doing that - exercising their second amendment right - then we have to be willing and able to do something about the people not willing to follow the guidelines."

The legislature passed a concealed carry law twice before, but former Governor Jim Doyle vetoed each one.

http://www.wiscnews.com/baraboonewsr...cc4c03286.html

 

JEFFERSON CITY • The age requirement to obtain a conceal-and-carry firearm permit would change from 23 to 21 under a bill passed Wednesday by the Missouri Senate.

The measure passed 27-6, with all "no" votes coming from Democrats.

The House passed a similar version of the legislation in March and can now either pass the Senate's bill or ask for a conference committee to iron out the differences before the session's mandatory closing at 6 p.m. Friday.

In addition to lowering the conceal-and-carry age requirement, the bill would also allow more people to carry a concealed firearm inside the Missouri Capitol building. Currently, only legislators are allowed to carry guns, but the bill would expand that privilege to include legislative staff members and statewide elected officials as well.

The training to obtain a conceal-and-carry permit would include time at a firing range with both a revolver and a semiautomatic pistol.

In order to pass, the applicant would have to hit targets with both types of handguns.

The Senate version, which was sponsored by state Sen. Brian Munzlinger, R-Williamstown, originally would have lowered the conceal-and-carry age to 18. Democrats, especially those from urban districts, expressed concerns that lowering the minimum age that much would put guns in untrained and unsafe hands, and ultimately, increase gun violence in the state.

"In urban areas, guns are a serious safety issue," said state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-St. Louis.

As a compromise, Republicans agreed to move the age back to 21. State Sen. Brian Nieves, R-Washington, said he would have preferred the age requirement move to 18 years old but was fine with the compromise.

"Where I live, if you don't have a gun it's like you don't have a car," he said before inviting Chappelle-Nadal to join him at a gun range in order to alleviate any fears she may have of firearms.

In 2003, Missouri became one of the last states to allow residents to obtain a permit for carrying a concealed weapon, a change that required overriding a gubernatorial veto.

 

"In one of the most successful pro-gun legislative sessions in the Hoosier State’s recent history, the Indiana General Assembly passed and Governor Mitch Daniels signed into law five new NRA-supported firearm bills!

As of July 1, Hoosiers will:

* Be protected from employer anti-gun workplace discrimination;
* Have the ability to purchase a long gun in any state that allows such sales;
* Transport a firearm to a shooting range without a state-issued permit;
* Know that wherever they travel throughout Indiana, the same firearm laws and freedoms apply evenly across local boundaries; and
* Carry a loaded firearm on their person on off-road vehicles on private property.

Senate Enrolled Act 506, the “Transport Permit Reform” bill, passed in the Senate by a 43 to 7 vote and in the House by an 84 to 13 vote. SEA 506 was authored by state Senator Jim Tomes (R-49) and sponsored in the House by Representative Heath VanNatter (R-38). This bill was signed into law by Governor Daniels on May 10."

 

SAF SUES ILLINOIS OVER BAN ON CARRYING GUNS FOR SELF-DEFENSE

The Second Amendment Foundation has filed suit in federal court in Illinois, challenging the state’s complete prohibition on the carrying of firearms in public for the purpose of self-defense.

The lawsuit alleges that Illinois statutes that completely ban the carrying of handguns for self-defense are “inconsistent with the Second Amendment.” Joining SAF are two private citizens, Michael Moore of Champaign and Charles Hooks of Percy. Named as defendants are Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and State Police Superintendent Patrick Keen. SAF is represented by attorneys David Jensen and David Sigale. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois.

“Illinois is currently the only state in the country that imposes a complete prohibition on the carrying of firearms for personal protection by its citizens,” said SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb. “The state legislature recently stopped, by a thin margin, a concealed carry measure. After the 2008 Heller ruling and last year’s McDonald ruling against the City of Chicago that incorporated the Second Amendment to the states, one would think that Illinois lawmakers would act quickly to comply with court decisions and the constitution.”

“Illinois is the only state in the country that completely prohibits its citizens from carrying guns for self-defense,” Jensen added. “It is incredible that this situation has persisted even in light of the Supreme Court’s rulings in Heller and McDonald, and we look forward to vindicating the rights of the people of Illinois.”

The lawsuit insists this case is not an attempt to force Illinois into some regulatory scheme, but only to clarify that the state’s current regulatory ban on firearms carry is impermissible under the Second Amendment.

“Every other state has some kind of regulatory scenario,” Gottlieb noted. “Even in Wisconsin, where there is no concealed carry statute, the state attorney general has recognized that open carry is legal. Only Illinois makes it statutorily impossible for average private citizens to carry firearms for self-defense.

“Whether Illinois lawmakers like it or not,” he added, “the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is the law of the land. A complete prohibition simply does not pass constitutional muster. The state cannot stick it’s head in the sand and pretend this problem does not exist...”

 

Bob,
Thanks for keeping us updated.
Tim

 

Who has the Worlds largest Army??



A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states
and arrived at a striking conclusion:

There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .

Allow me to restate that number.
Over the last several months, Wisconsin 's hunters (alone) became the eighth largest army in the world.
More men under arms than in Iran .
More than in France and Germany combined.

These men deployed to the woods of a single American state to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.

That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania,
and Michigan 's 700,000 hunters, all of whom have now returned home.

Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally
establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone would
comprise the largest army in the world.

The point?

America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of
home-grown firepower. In fact, it is known that the attack on Pearl Harbor to
start WWll (for the US) was only a diversion by Japan to keep the US occupied while they further expanded in the Pacific.
The Japs did not want to invade the US homeland because there were too many armed citizens. Yes, it's documented.

Hunting -- it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of
national security.

That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed.
Food for thought when next we consider gun control.
God Bless America and the Constitution.

 

NRA Files Suit Against Unconstitutional Ban on Carrying Firearms for Self-Defense in Illinois
Friday, May 13, 2011

Fairfax, Va. -- The National Rifle Association is funding and supporting a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of Illinois’ complete and total ban on carrying firearms for self-defense outside the home. The case, filed today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, is Shepard v. Madigan. The lead plaintiff is church treasurer Mary Shepard; joining her is the Illinois State Rifle Association, the NRA’s state affiliate.

Mary Shepard is an Illinois resident and a trained gun owner with no criminal record, who is licensed to carry a concealed handgun in two other states. Because Illinois remains the only state that completely prohibits all law-abiding citizens from carrying firearms for self-defense outside the home, Mary Shepard also became a crime victim. While working as the treasurer of her church, Mrs. Shepard and an 83-year-old co-worker were viciously attacked and beaten by a six-foot-three-inch, 245-pound man with a violent past and a criminal record. Mrs. Shepard and her co-worker were lucky to survive, as each of them suffered major injuries to the head, neck and upper body. Mrs. Shepard’s injuries required extensive surgery and physical therapy.

“Mary Shepard isn't just a victim of the violent criminal who attacked her," said Chris W. ***, executive director of NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action. "She is also a victim of anti self-defense activists in the Illinois legislature who have consistently refused to recognize that good people have the right to protect themselves when they go about their everyday business. We're pleased that the legislature has come closer this year than ever before to changing the law, but close isn't good enough for Mary Shepard and the thousands of other Illinois residents who are prohibited by statute from defending themselves outside the home."

Because Illinois statutes prohibit the right to keep and bear arms and the ability to carry handguns in Illinois, they infringe on the right of the people, including Mrs. Shepard, members of the ISRA and other law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and are thus null and void.

*** concluded: "In its historic Heller and McDonald decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms. Mary Shepard's story highlights the need for law-abiding citizens to be able to fully exercise their Second Amendment rights. Whether through the legislature or through the courts, we won't rest until that happens."

The NRA has also filed or supported the following case.

Benson v. City of Chicago, challenging Chicago's unconstitutionally burdensome handgun restrictions;