Thanks for the positive comments, Mike.
There are ways to make full-auto fund-raising shoots 150% legal, so that even if Doyle were God Himself (God forbid), he can't touch us.
I can't emphasize this point enough: I was not going to send out a blanket invitation to everyone in the Midwest, inviting them to a shoot where there was even a remote possibility of arrest or harassment. It would have been unfair to the attendees of such a shoot, and would have blown up in the face of the concealed carry effort.
Again, having events like this one are completely different than the usual full-auto events that go on every weekend in WI. This was in Doyle's face, especially since he and AG Lautenschlager were looking for ways under WI statutes to prosecute full-auto owners back in 2003. For anything they could get them on. That's Doyle.
I appreciate the fact that there are members of this forum who are willing to go to the wall. Unfortunately, you folks are in the minority.
Unless you have the power of someone like Governor Doyle to sell indian casino compacts, energy company rate increases, nuclear power plant sales, and other items of interest to the very rich and powerful, it's awfully damned hard to raise tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars at a crack. Doyle does it every day.
I want to set up another full-auto shoot. I want it to be in Doyle's face. I want it to be 150% legal. And I want it to raise multiple thousands of dollars, not a couple of hundred bucks. I can raise a couple of hundred bucks just by spending an hour or so sending out emails; that's chickenshit. Hell, I can raise $1000 a person by making just a few phone calls.
I want Doyle's goons to show up at the event, and our attorney shows them a legal document that says, "tell your governor to fuck off. This is legal."
Ideally, I'd like to hold this event during the May NRA convention. I'd like to have WCCA volunteers outside with their cars, ready to escort NRA members back and forth to the shoot.
And, instead of having subguns, I'd like to have the heavy stuff---.50 cal's, M60's, SAW's, and other exotica--that people would pay $75 or even $100 to shoot.
I know that I can get some Class III dealers to bring such guns to the event.
What I don't know is how many people are willing to help.
Talk is cheap.
So, for all of you who have said you're willing to do what it takes: this is what it takes.
What are you willing to do?
If you're willing to help out with such an event, please email me at
[email protected]If, with your help, we can pull off this event, every other pro-gun group in the state will disavow themselves from any involvement. They will distance themselves.
And that's okay. As Mike (prebans) surely already knows, one of the purposes of the WCCA's existence was to be able to do things that the mainstream gun groups could not. I've already told one AR15.com member what we (I) were preparing to do. And it was waaaayyyyyy outside the mainstream.
Maybe we haven't been far enough out there. If that's your opinion of the WCCA, here's your chance to change that opinion.