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Two open-carry backers lead to Germantown police response
Milwaukee J-S ^ | 18 mar 2014 | Ashley Luthern

Posted on 03/18/2014 4:54:34 AM PDT by rellimpank

A Sheboygan Falls man caused a stir last weekend in Germantown when he openly carried two firearms, prompting residents to call police and the police chief to post an update on the department's Facebook page — which led to another open-carry advocate traveling to Germantown.

William Polster of Sheboygan Falls has spent the last year openly carrying his firearms throughout Wisconsin and recording his interactions with the public and police.

"So many people just call the cops on it," he said Monday. "If you feel threatened, that's one thing. If it's properly carried in a non-threatening manner, it should not be a problem at all."

Several residents in Germantown called police over the weekend when they saw Polster with a handgun holstered on his hip and a long gun slung over his back.

He was walking in the area of Mequon Road and Squire Drive on Saturday, and officers briefly made contact with Polster when he approached a police squad car, according to a post on the Germantown police Facebook page.

Polster declined to give officers his name and walked on the sidewalk to his car. He was recording the incident, and officers activated their cameras to record the incident as well, since it "was apparent that this was some type of open-carry test case that the subject was engaging in," according to a police update.

Polster was not violating any law or local ordinance and was respectful with offi

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1 posted on 03/18/2014 4:54:34 AM PDT by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank

One word....Stupid.


2 posted on 03/18/2014 5:01:20 AM PDT by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: rellimpank

When I was a child in Florida in the ‘60’s I remember seeing real cowboys and linemen at roadside eateries with a revolver on their hip. They were probably loaded with snake shot. But nobody reacted. Then, at some point late in the ‘60’s it all disappeared. Partly, the rural areas were developed and the people who needed revolvers as tools disappeared as did their jobs.

At some point the reactions became hysterical. I talked with a guy from Arizona. He and his wife went target shooting then wore their revolvers into an open air BBQ and people stared with wide eyes. He said he took their guns out and locked them in the truck for fear they’d call the cops. I think today they’d call the cops just to make that “zero tolerance” point liberals like so much now.


3 posted on 03/18/2014 5:02:38 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: afraidfortherepublic

—ping—


4 posted on 03/18/2014 5:05:36 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Halgr

I disagree. It is retraining the public from the current nanny state mentality to a freedom and liberty mentality.


5 posted on 03/18/2014 5:17:47 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: taxcontrol; Halgr

Exactly correct.


6 posted on 03/18/2014 5:22:46 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Halgr

One should always sit in the back of the bus and should never eat lunch at the whites only counter.


7 posted on 03/18/2014 5:32:51 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Halgr

One word....Stupid.


Like that uppity (stupid) b**** Rosa Parks?


8 posted on 03/18/2014 5:33:22 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed ("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
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To: Gen.Blather
...a guy from Arizona.

As a guy from Arizona, I have never seen a reaction to somebody carrying open. Except occasionally a couple of people who don't speak English whispering amongst themselves.

9 posted on 03/18/2014 5:47:42 AM PDT by CPOSharky (If a libtards lips are moving...)
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To: Halgr
Reminds one of gays who want to march with their banners in the Saint Patrick's day parade.

"We're here, we're queer, we're in your face" = "We here we're carrying and we're in your face"

Enough already.

10 posted on 03/18/2014 5:56:59 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Pray for the owners and staff of Ares Armor)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

Except the right to bear is a constitutional right and being a queer is not.


11 posted on 03/18/2014 6:01:10 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Gen.Blather

America drifted away from its habits of of freedom.
America forgot what it has always practiced.
America forgot that everyone could WEAR ARMS.

BRING BACK THE REAL AMERICA!

Volunteers#War of 1812

“Governor Synder, 1815- Our militia and volunteers were actually engage with the enemy..”p99 ...if we destroyed the militia system, we did not indeed take away the right of the people to bear arms, but we destroyed the inclination, the habit of WEARING ARMS; and such was not his [Gov. Snyder]sentiment as to what ought to be the condition of things in a country like ours.

He believed that not only right, but the habit of WEARING ARMS was essential to freemen, and to the preservation of the liberty of freemen.

This was the principle inserted into the Constitution of the United States; and if we did away with this, the effect would be to destroy the principle and the feeling altogether.” .100 p.105.

The terms of the Constitution he need not refer to; and the amendment now under discussion was simply an AFFIRMANCE OF A POWER,-THAT THE RIGHT OF A PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

-sourced from “Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Vol. 4, by the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1837-8”

Here`s an excerpt from a neighbor [General Hammond] of my great grandfather who served with him in the Civil War in the NY 5th Cavalry, Company H:

[General Hammond went to the California Gold Rush when he was 22 years old. He describes an event on a riverboat where boys are armed with pistols..]

BOY WEAR PISTOLS IN 1849

1849:

“One morning I was in the wash room there were two citizens of Arkansas in it washing; by their conversation I found one was a United States Senator;
the other a United States Representative. There were eight or twelve cabin boys waiters on the boat; the Senator called one to him and asked him to bring him some
clean towels; all these boys were armed with pistols and knives; the boy looked at the Senator with perfect indignation and said, “You go to Hell, God damn you; if you
want towels go and get them.” The boy left with an air of having been insulted.
After his departure the Senator turned to the Congressman with a laugh and said “I like that that’s the kind of boys we raise in Arkansas and just what our people should encourage.”

p31, “John Hammond: Died May 29, 1889, at Home, Crown Point, N.Y. Born August 17 ...”
By John Hammond

http://books.google.com/books?id=pH1NAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=crown+point+bay&hl=en&sa=X&ei=87kcU4n9C-bXyAGC8YCICg&ved=0CD

“p32 “On the sixth day we approached the town of Van Buren six miles below Fort Smith then occupied by US troops. Van Buren seemed to me to be quite as large as Little Rock the capital.
As we sighted Van Buren every cabin boy was lashing on to his body his fighting furniture and placing himself in the fore front of the boat as we neared the wharf boat. By inquiry I learned that they had left an unfinished battle on the way down and proposed to finish it on their facing the landing. From appearances the Van Buren boys got all they wanted on the down trip. The cabin boys paraded the shore jubilant and were the pride of many admiring young girls. I went ashore “ibid p32

p36 “After I had mounted my pony Mr. Brown said “Where are your pistols?” I said “In our room.” He says, “I tell you, you can` t leave here if I can help it unarmed.” I asked “Why?” He said, “Hammond, your route is just along the border of the Indian Nation and the great resort of the worst desperadoes on this continent.” I went and got my pistols. At that day there were no revolvers. Before leaving Crown Point I bought a pair of silver mounted single barrel pistols of an Englishman, a tanner who was working for Mr. J.C. Brevoort. I stuck one in my belt under my coat the other in the leg of my knee boots and cantered off to the north” ibid, 36.

[My ancestors came to Crown Point, NY, fully armed from NH in 1797 when they were 16 years old.]

1922
“The primary Idea In holding rifle and pistol competitions is not the turning out of winning teams nor the production of medal hunters -but to increase interest thruout the Service and among our citizens in the use of the rifle and pistol.
In so far as the citizen population becomes familiar with the use of these arms the work of training men in time of emergency is lessened, and the safety of the individuals and our country Increased.”-—
Plattsburgh Daily Republican Mon. July 31, 1922


12 posted on 03/18/2014 6:08:26 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: rellimpank
Although people may have the right of free speech, I find it to be unnecessarily agitating when they actually exercise it.

Yea, its their right, but its horribly irresponsible to write an article or make speeches that other people don't agree with. Frankly, I feel threatened by such overt free speech.

Of course people have a right to free speech and I support that, I like to talk myself in the privacy of my own home, but if they insist on exercising their free speech within earshot of others then they deserve the highest scrutiny of the law.

13 posted on 03/18/2014 6:19:03 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: CPOSharky

When I got out of the military in San Diego and was driving across Arizona to get home, I saw folks OCing at gas stations and other places.

I certainly had a very strong reaction.

Went something like this:

“SWEEET!!”


14 posted on 03/18/2014 6:24:43 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
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To: rellimpank
When Colorado was working on our CCW law, Governor Bill Owens insisted that the permit holders go into the criminal data base. This means any CCW permit holder pulled over for a traffic stop will be approached as an armed suspect.

Many of us wanted legal open carry, lobbied our legislators, and passed open carry legislation. Open carry is legal in many states. You feel we should not because it makes liberals nervous.

I like the smell of urine soiled progressive panties.

15 posted on 03/18/2014 6:38:39 AM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: Halgr
One word....Stupid.

That's three words and since you are military, I thought you might know something about the FREEDOMS, that you chose to defend.

We are only free, if we can exercise our God given rights without fear of official intervention. Period. Not stupid.

16 posted on 03/18/2014 6:49:06 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: rellimpank

It is a citizen’s RIGHT to keep and bear arms. No explanation needed. Period.


17 posted on 03/18/2014 7:13:33 AM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: Halgr
I agree with your use of the term, but I doubt we agree to whom the term should be applied.

Open carry should be so common that soccer moms don't get the vapors when they see it.

18 posted on 03/18/2014 7:19:18 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Gen.Blather

***Then, at some point late in the ‘60’s it all disappeared.***

June, 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was murdered, and the news media led America into an anti-gun hysteria fit. That fit is still going on.


19 posted on 03/18/2014 7:21:30 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: rellimpank; Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; DonkeyBonker; Wisconsinlady; ...

Open carry “test” in Germantown, WI.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.


20 posted on 03/18/2014 7:22:51 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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