I’m a fan and sometimes customer of Badger Guns in their various incarnations.
The Milwacky Urinal has indeed been after them for some time. The MJS is fundamentally anti-self-defense.
Two things:
1. Far too many of the guns sold there do wind up in the hands of criminals. Several Milwaukee cops have been shot with those guns, so we can’t really blame law enforcement for being upset.
2. The thing is, Badger has done a lot to try to prevent this. I have been in the store when they positively grilled a woman who was trying to buy a gun. It appeared she was not a prohibited person but something got the employee’s attention. He asked her many times if the gun was for herself, who was paying for it, who it was going to and so on. She kept insisting the gun was for herself.
Now, just imagine if you were trying to buy a gun or groceries, and someone treated you like that. I wonder how likely you would be to stand there and take it, and then buy the product. Me neither.
Now, imagine that you are black and are treated like that. Can you say “civil rights lawsuit?” I know you can. Yet, I’ve seen Badger employees do that several times to black people, risking, in my opinion, a lawsuit.
I was there one day when they were concerned they were seeing a straw purchase. An employee kept the buyer talking while another slipped into a room in plain view of me and called the ATF. What did the ATF say? “Make the sale.” That way, they explained, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO TRACE THE FIREARM! (Emphasis added.) So, Badger made the sale. Was it a straw purchase? I don’t know. But you can be sure that if it was, the Milwacky Urinal would be delighted to report it as such without adding what Badger had tried to do, and what ATF TOLD them to do.
The Milwaukee mayor is rabidly anti-self-defense. Protected by an armed escort everywhere he goes, he would rather see a woman lying dead in the street with her pantyhose wrapped around her neck, than standing up with a gun in her hand. Side note: he was injured by a man who cut him severely.
The Milwaukee police used to have a policy of confiscating firearms legally transported through the city. (This may have been when Madison WI was passing a law banning handguns from the city, even those passing through on the interstate. This was also when the Madison police chief’s wife baked his piece in the oven - where he stored it, cooking off the ammo.) If the cops stopped a car for, say, an illegal turn, they’d ask the driver if he/she had any guns in the car. One mustn’t lie to the cops, must one? Tell the truth and you’re out on the sidewalk in handcuffs while the cops confiscate the guns. They would then go into evidence storage. They would not be cleaned or otherwise cared for and would corrode. To get the guns back, the owner would have to threaten to sue. Then the cops would require the owner to pass the NICS background check for them and pay a storage fee. Finally, the owner would find the guns had been defaced with evidence markings.
I don’t know whether Milwacky is still doing that crap, but I, for one, trust them not. They have a high rate of arrestees dying in their custody.
Chief Flynn recently had a flagrant sexual affair with a local prominent journalist (her marriage is now in the tank).
He has been heavy on the anti-Badger rhetoric, not to mention anti-self defense. Trust him? I think not. After all, this is the city that prosecuted shop owners who killed murderous thugs during the course of an armed robbery.
Mayor Barrett has ordered that he be informed immediately of every “gun death” in the city as soon as possible, even if the cops have to wake him up. Keep in mind that the vast majority of shootings are of one dirt bag by another. (This is not to diminish the horror of innocent people being murdered by the scumbags Wisconsin won’t keep in prison.)
Barrett, methinks, is one sick puppy.
- Backpacker
