Only single shots allowed under proposed legistlation...anything else felony
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Baumgart, Doyle Propose Gun Ban
Pump Shotguns and Most Other Firearms Banned

Virtually every gun used to hunt in Wisconsin would be illegal to use under a bill authored by Senator Jim Baumgart at the request Attorney General Jim Doyle. The supposed terrorism legislation would outlaw the use of any pump, lever or bolt action rifle or shotgun as well as any revolver or semi-automatic firearm for hunting, self-defense or target practice.

In fact, only single-shot firearms, less than one-percent of all firearms, could be used by anyone except law enforcement and the military. Anyone using a firearm that holds more than one bullet or even owning a single bullet would be guilty of a Felony.

“If Baumgart and Doyle get their way, every hunter in Wisconsin would be an instant criminal, facing prison and a lifetime loss of voting rights,” said state Senator Dave Zien (R-Wheaton).

“Reloading your own shotgun shells could send you to prison for 15-years.” Rather than ban firearms outright, Doyle and Baumgart ban all types of ammunition by defining the bullet as both a “destructive device” and an “explosive,” the gunpowder as an “explosive” and even the tiny primer that ignites every bullet is specifically called a “detonator.”

Owning, possessing or using any of these items would be a felony offense, unless the citizens could prove they were only for use in “firearms that are designed to shoot no more than one shot without manual reloading” (i.e. single shot firearms).

“Can you imagine a Wisconsin elected official outlawing the use every pump shotgun and labeling every duck hunter a terrorist?” asked Zien. “Maybe the Attorney General should concentrate on the real terrorists and leave law-abiding gun owners alone.”

The bill even goes as far as allowing photographs of a person with banned material to be used as evidence of a crime. “This will make the picture of a hunter with her Remington 870 and a trophy buck evidence of terrorist activity,” said Zien.

In 1998, Wisconsin voters amended the state Constitution to protect the right of law-abiding citizens to posses and use firearms. Because the Constitution prevents Doyle from banning the gun, the only way he can deny hunters the use of their guns is to ban the ammunition.

“It is no wonder people are cynical about their government,” said Zien, author of Wisconsin’s Right to Keep and Bear Arms. “When the attorney charged with upholding our Constitution deliberately tries to thwart that Constitution and deny the will of the people, it gives all public servants a bad name.”

Information on the Attorney General’s website describing the points of Doyle’s “Anti-Terrorism Legislative Package” mentions nothing about the gun ban provisions. Zien noted the information distributed to legislators also mentioned nothing about the bans. Doyle can only propose the language to legislators. The legislative author (Baumgart) takes whatever he chooses from Doyle’s draft and introduces his own bill.

Baumgart likewise mentions nothing about the bans in his memo to legislators asking them to join as cosponsors of his bill.

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Sad part is, these jackasses will end up getting re-elected by the sheeple...

"It's being done to protect the children, and the children's children, and the children's children's children, and the"...

You know what I mean...

boy they sure do get pissed when their team doesnt make it to the SuperBowl [;)]


I think VA-gunnut got it right!!!

Everybody knows that terrorists are some duck hunting mother fuckers! [rolleyes] And they [b][i]always[/i][/b] go over the limit.

If everyone ran all the time,,then what would happen?

alright cheese heads, im in iowa, if you guys seceed, and stage a civil war, im with ya

and we thought the caliban was bad.

Hmm...if all the hunters/gun owners and their families left that state in the friggin dust....wonder what would happen?

WHERE do they find these people?  HOW do they get elected/appointed?

This kind of crap reminds me of what went on in the Klinton White House.

[pissed][pissed][pissed][pissed]

Man, I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue.

It will never fly.  I am not too concerned about it.  To many hunters using Remington semi autos.  

Is there a link to send Senators Dagwood and Bumstead an email?

Communist bullcr@p.

Don't take this the wrong way, but sometimes I think it'd be better if things got pushed up to the limit. Sort of like dealing with a boil - the only way to get rid of it is to apply pressure until it bursts. This whole mess is like a giant boil on our constitutional rights. The only way to get rid of it is to build up the pressure until it breaks.

The incrementalist methodology of the legislature(s) is akin to slowly boiling the frog in the kettle. No one's going to jump unless it gets hot really quick. Maybe it'd be better if really hard-core gun control legislation would get passed so more people would get PO'd enough to say no/vote no.[:\]

Thoughts[?]

Exactly...  I've been thinking:  How can this press release best be used to advance the cause of the Wisconsin Concealed Carry Movement?

Ideas?

WTF over? I always thought WI was one of those good ol' boy states. I hate to think what would happen to the rest of us if these crack-head legislators pass this.

You mean paint yourself into a corner?  Gun-grabbers will follow anywhere you go.  


[b]Moving to another state will only delay the inevitable. It's time to stop the Bradyites in their tracks and make THEM move to another state.[/b] [pissed]

Come to Arizona. We'll dig a trench around the whole state and fill it with gasoline! That might slow them down... a bit. [:D]

fu*k it, lets just nuke the san andreas, thatl get em all with one swift move and a lot less mony.

Call your republican legislature and tell them to let it pass.

I can see it now in chamber

THE REPUBICAN FROM WISCONSIN IS SO RECOGNIZED!

R-WI,"WELL , MY SUPPORTERS HAVE TOLD ME TO ABSTAIN FROM VOTING AND ALLOW ALL YOU DEMOCRATS TO PASS THIS LEGISLATION; BUT THEY ALSO TOLD ME THAT THEY HAVE BEEN JUST LOOKING FOR AN EXCUSE! I THINK I WILL HELP GIVE IT TO THEM."

I gaurantee you that bill will not pass and at that point the democrats won't even support it.

Benjamin

My God, don't they see what will happen if they take all the guns away from law abiding people. The only PEOPLE WITH GUNS WILL BE CRIMINALS AND THEN WHEN ITS THE STATE VERSUS THE CRIMINALS THE STATE WILL LOOSE.  AS PRETTY SOON THE GANGSTERS AND THE THUGS WILL TEAM UP AGAINST THE LEGISLATURES.  

WE NEED ORDINARY CITIZENS TO HELP DEFEND US.  WELL, WAIT THERE ISN"T ANYONE WHO CAN BECAUSE WE HAVE ALREADY TAKEN AWAY ALL THEIR GUNS.

As a Wisconsin resident I can assure you that this bill has about as much a chance of passing as the DNC nominating Rush Limbaugh for president.  Aside from the appauling lack of concealed carry legislation, this state is more pro-gun then Texas!

-Lazy