The initial version of the 2003 bill gave reciprocity to permit holders from every shall-issue state.
This year's bill provides that the DOJ establish reciprocity with other states, based upon substantially similar training requirements. I'm not certain why the authors changed that portion of the bill.
And now, for Corey Graff's latest attack on Zien, Gunderson, the NRA, and the WCCA:
Subject: [WGO-TECH] CCW EMERGENCY! GUN CONTROL ALERT!
STATE REPUBLICANS BETRAY GUN OWNERS IN HOUR OF GREATEST NEED
CCW bill will create gun owner registration list, criminal safe zones,
nightmare
bureaucratic "system"
Monday, December 12, 2005
Dear WGO Activist:
The State Assembly will vote tomorrow on the Personal Protection Act (PPA),
the
Shall-Issue concealed carry bill before our state legislature.
The State Senate passed its version of the bill - SB 403 - last week by a
23-10
vote.
But anti-gunners should be celebrating even more than gun owners. That's
because
hidden in the bill are at least six major gun control provisions which will
be
passed along with the bill unless you do your part today.
Those provisions* include:
1. Creating a massive, centralized, gun owner registration list administered
by
Department of Justice (DOJ). The FBI and BATFE - and the Working Group of
the
Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) law enforcement agencies - operates under
DOJ
and investigates and spies on suspected "terrorists" - who are mostly
law-abiding citizens. A recent Associated Press report, in fact, said the
FBI's
"Watch lists" have grown from just 16 persons on that list prior to Sept.
11,
2001, swelling to over 80,000 people on the Watch list today! It is naïve at
best to believe DOJ will just serve in a secretarial capacity with a
newly-acquired CCW list of gun-carrying permit holders.
2. Creating a patchwork of locations (No-Carry-Allowed Areas) which you, a
FREE
AMERICAN, will not be able to even walk into if you carry a gun under the
law
this legislation would create. While this creates dangerous "Criminal Safe
Zones," it also ushers in an eerie atmosphere of gun owner
sit-at-the-back-of-the-bus segregation.
3. Charging gun owners excessive fees to apply for and receive a carry
permit -
over $200 including the state-mandated training - making getting a permit to
carry a weapon for self-defense unaffordable for many of the people who have
an
immediate self-protection need. In addition - but no less important -
charging a
fee to exercise an inalienable right destroys that right.
4. Forcing you to undergo an additional criminal background check with DOJ.
You've already undergone one background check under NICS when you purchased
your gun, but apparently you still haven't proven you are a lawful citizen.
They will check you AGAIN (and because the permit expires after 5 years,
expect
future legislation to create recurring criminal background checks - over and
over again - to renew the license).
5. Creating the state-level legal framework to implement federal legislation
known as "Cops-Only-Carry" (HR 218). Retired cops should be able to carry
concealed handguns, but because they are citizens and it's their right - not
because they were cops by career choice.
6. EXPANDING the NICS background check done on handgun purchases to include
a
broad, undefined new category of "new crimes."
7. Rep. Scott Gunderson struck a "compromise" deal with the historically
anti-gun Wisconsin Troopers Association. The result: A Rogue Cop Amendment
gives cops instant alert that you have a permit to carry when they pull you
over for a traffic violation. Police Chiefs have admitted they will order
their
officers to draw their weapon on any permit-carrying gun owner pulled over
under
any pretense (even if you are pulled over for a defective taillight). You
could
be forced to the ground, on your face. Other law enforcement officials have
admitted they will use the DOJ list to investigate all permit holders in the
vicinity of a crime - just because they hold a CCW permit!
8. Both NRA and staffers in Rep. Gunderson's office have denied there will
be a
fingerprinting requirement added to the PPA. While WGO uncovered the
possible
deal-in-the-works at the Joint Hearing earlier this fall, it looks like
activist-pressure has spoiled the deal as politicians have responded
predictably: denying any fingerprinting deal now that the spotlight is on
them.
NOTE: THIS IS A FAVORABLE OUTCOME. Without your pressure on this issue,
insiders
would have been able to sneak a fingerprinting provision right past gun
owners.
Still, be on the lookout for this atrocious concession to come up as a last
minute floor amendment if politicians feel they need to scrounge up a few
last
votes for the bill. They'll tell you it's "political reality" that you must
accept such an amendment. Sound familiar?
To give you an idea of just how important the information in this e-mail is,
your action today will likely be the most important thing you've done all
year
long for your gun rights.
The status quo gun groups - who have given their silent support to the gun
control provisions - have left the Second Amendment in a perilous position.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 13, 2005, comes the vote. Today, Monday, is the
day
we alert the legislature that gun control must be removed from this bill.
We won't get a second chance: the bill (if passed) will go to anti-gun
Governor
Jim Doyle - who will veto the legislation regardless of how many anti-gun
deals
spineless Republicans have struck - and our chance to clean up the bill will
then be over (at least for this round).
If that happens, you'll be shoved in between a rock and a hard place:
forcing
you to choose between passing concealed carry along with a major gun control
package OR killing concealed carry to prevent yet another massive erosion to
your firearm freedoms.
Our analysis proves conclusively the institutional gun lobby - NRA,
Wisconsin
Concealed Carry Association, and others - and their compromise-at-all-costs
strategy is responsible for two stumbling blocks, 1) dividing gun owners who
should be united for the Second Amendment and 2) providing political cover
to
politicians who are pushing their own (anti-gun) agendas through the bill.
NRA lobbyist Darren LaSorte has been trying to woo gun owners by claiming
these
concessions are the "political reality" and the only way to pass the bill.
Yet,
out of the other side of his mouth, LaSorte boasted at the Joint Committee
hearing on this bill that NRA was the most powerful lobbying organization in
the country.
QUOTE:
"Forbes magazine ranked NRA as the top lobbying organization in the country
and
polls among staffers on Capital Hill indicate that's the case also." -
Darren
LaSorte, NRA State Liaison, November 2, 2005
We've told you all along that these groups seem to be fighting against the
drafting and introduction of clean pro-gun legislation from the inside.
Well,
if NRA leadership is so tough, they should be able to ram through good
concealed carry - especially with a Republican-controlled legislature.
It seems the liberals have the neo-conservatives well-trained and on very
short
leashes.
In fact, in the last 130 years or so, some 20,000 gun laws have been passed
with
the institutional gun lobby doing the driving. Do you feel more free?
ACTION:
We have a BOLD plan of action - and a brand new e-mail system.
We've made it easy for you to TIP THE SCALES in this battle. All you have to
do,
is use the pre-written message below, send to
[email protected], and we'll forward it onto your
legislator
plus their entire staff (and a few of their colleagues.)
1. CRITICAL - Simply insert your name, copy and paste, and e-mail the
pre-written message below to
[email protected] We must
make
sure that everyone working at the capital is aware there are detrimental gun
control provisions in the PPA - to hold them accountable for it - and so
they
can't claim later they failed to offer amendments because they weren't aware
of
the problems. Your one e-mail will bullet proof our long-term strategy of
advancing gun rights by not giving politicians any wiggle room.
2. VITAL FOLLOW THROUGH - After you've sent your e-mail, call the Capital
switchboard at 1-800-362-9472 and ask to be put through to your state
representative. Tell them to amend the PPA by removing the objectionable gun
control provisions* (see above). You shouldn't be forced to accept gun
control,
especially in what should be a pro-gun bill. Tell them the bill takes six
steps
back for gun owners and only one step forward. Tell them the Republicans
should
not be giving up the fight when they are in control in the legislature. They
are
practically handing anti-gunners a smorgasbord of gun control advances - for
FREE (if this is a true compromise as the apologists want you to think, what
inalienable rights are anti-gunners giving up? Answer: ZERO).
PRE-WRITTEN MESSAGE
Subject line: GUN CONTROL WARNING! CLEAN UP THE PPA!
E-mail to:
[email protected]
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December 12, 2005
GUN CONTROL WARNING
Dear Legislator:
Are the gun owners in your district aware that you are about to pass a gun
control bill?
The Personal Protection Act (PPA) - AB 763/SB 403 - contains several
disastrous
ANTI-GUN concessions which must be removed by amendment right away.
I urge you in the strongest terms to REMOVE BY AMENDMENT the following:
- The PPA's centralized Department of Justice registration list of
permit-holding gun owners. I oppose gun owner registration. It always leads
to
abuse and confiscation.
- The PPA's excessive fees (over $200 including the mandatory training)
which
shouldn't be charged in the first place to exercise an inalienable right.
- The PPA's laundry list of No-Carry-Allowed areas which will be off limits
to
gun owners who are carrying concealed even with a permit - creating
"Criminal
Safe Zones."
- The PPA's criminal background check, which treats law-abiding gun owners
like
me as criminals.
- The PPA's creation of the legal framework to implement federal law
"Cops-Only-Carry" (HR 218). When cops retire, they should not be given
elevated-Special Citizen treatment.
- Rep. Scott Gunderson's anti-gun provision to allow cops instant access to
the
DOJ list of permit holders during routine traffic stops. Given that
Wisconsin
police chiefs have admitted they will draw their weapons on citizens with
permits who are detained, it is downright dangerous (to drivers) to give
cops
this excessive authority.
I expect that you will remove by amendment the above gun control provisions
within this bill in a timely manner.
Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. (WGO) will keep me informed of your actions.
For Freedom,
[Name]
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This is so serious we simply can't sit by today, hoping others will do our
work
for us to clean up this bill.
We must act.
And it's so simple.
Again, just insert your name, copy and then paste the pre-written message
above
and e-mail it to
[email protected]
We ask that you forward this alert to every freedom-loving American in your
address book as quickly as possible. They can help us send an even stronger
message.
Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. is counting on you holding the line. Don't wait
to
act.
Corey Graff, Executive Director
Wisconsin Gun Owners Inc.
P.O. Box 338
Green Bay, WI 54305
http://www.wisconsingunowners.org
[phone] 888.202.1645
[fax] 866.208.1346
[e-mail]
[email protected]
"Wisconsin's Only No-Compromise Gun Rights Organization"
