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DNR to hunters: Hand over your guns on demand
Lakeland Times ^ | 9 January, 2009 | Richard Moore

Posted on 01/10/2009 10:36:44 AM PST by marktwain

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To: marktwain
Good advice:
21 posted on 01/10/2009 11:03:20 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: SJackson

A ping for your Upper Midwest/outdoors/rural list.


22 posted on 01/10/2009 11:04:21 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: marktwain

This is the way they are disarming you.


23 posted on 01/10/2009 11:05:27 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Hodar

Although I loathe poachers, I loathe any form of pre-conviction asset forfeiture even more.

One effect of asset forfeiture is that the penalties of a crime are rather open ended and inconsistently applied as you noted in the case of one man losing a Lexus and another losing a POS for the same crime.


24 posted on 01/10/2009 11:05:34 AM PST by Eagle Eye (Libs- If you don't have to play the rules then neither do we...THINK ABOUT IT!)
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To: marktwain

Giving up a person’s right to bear arms is the first step towards totalitarianism.


25 posted on 01/10/2009 11:05:42 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: marktwain

DNR SWAT Teams - coming soon to the woods nearest you.


26 posted on 01/10/2009 11:07:57 AM PST by 43north (11.04.08: the day America committed voluntary suicide)
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To: Petruchio

Amen brother! Hellinois gun control gained them increased gun crime while also making its citizenry helpless. Got to get that “VOIT” card; NEVER!


27 posted on 01/10/2009 11:08:59 AM PST by Colonel Jim
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To: Mark was here
I have told my daughter, who's in the Navy, that if a national crisis should occur, the police will be the ones shooting at us. Hopefully, our military will be the ones protecting us from the police. Does anyone know if police officers take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution as the military do?
28 posted on 01/10/2009 11:09:00 AM PST by My hearts in London - Everett (Remember the 3 Rs: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.)
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To: marktwain

My son in law and bro in law were in the mountains on public land target shooting. They saw a state game officer pulling up to them (female, BTW). My rat bastard son in law, wanted to make her fell more comfortable and leaned his .22 rifle against his pickup tailgate and stepped away from the gun. She returned the favor by writting him up for having a loaded weapon in a vehicle.


29 posted on 01/10/2009 11:10:38 AM PST by umgud (I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

Many sources I read lately is that military commanders have all the proof they need that if Obama issues any order they can legally decline to follow it.

Our military is aware of the legal repercussions of taking orders illegally.

If it came down to either an Obama army or LEOs forcing themselves upon the US the military may be our weapon of defense.

Possi comitotus in reverse would be a bitch Barry.


30 posted on 01/10/2009 11:15:15 AM PST by Eye of Unk (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
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To: marktwain

The key to present law is to deliberately create vague ambiguous situations. Vagueness and ambiguity then create a question of fact. A question of fact then creates the need for a trial(with all the burden and expense unaffordable to most people). A trial generally results in an appeal. An appeal then allows the judiciary to formulate “POLICY.” Everyone knows the general drift of “POLICY” i.e. eternally leftward.


31 posted on 01/10/2009 11:15:20 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: marktwain
And if you set it down on the ground and he picks it up, now he's taken your gun without your permission. I've been teaching that for 14 years."

That's BS. If the warden needs to check to see if there is a plug in your auto-5, he should be allowed to inspect your gun, he should just not be allowed to confiscate it.

32 posted on 01/10/2009 11:15:35 AM PST by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: marktwain

Indeed an excellent article. The writer seems to be a real journalist of the old school, which is a great compliment.

A real practical issue in this misunderstanding is safety. No one wants to have an officer expecting one thing, and the citizen expecting another. That is why the DNR’s pushing the limits is even more than just an attempt to shade the law: it creates the chance of a dangerous misjudgment.

I have heard too many accounts of accidents occurring in ordinary traffic cases, such that in the last decades whenever I have been stopped while driving, I keep my hands on the steering wheel, or on the edge of the window, so that the officer cannot possibly misinterpret.

I know a young chap who was stopped at night returning home with friends after a party. The officer asked the boy for his driver’s license, and the kid responded by reaching under his seat (where he habitually placed his wallet). The next thing he knew, he heard a click, and felt a large barrel against his head.

I am not saying that this is good police procedure, but police are often injured or killed in what seemed at the time like a routine stop. I would never reach under a seat like that without explaining what I was doing. It is absolutely necessary to understand what is going on both sides of the “interview.” It is good fortune that nothing bad happened in the case of my friend (he didn’t even get any sort of ticket), but to my way of thinking that is a close call.

Likewise, it would be good if the courts figured out (correctly) this matter with the DNR in Wisconsin.


33 posted on 01/10/2009 11:16:58 AM PST by docbnj
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To: marktwain

Remember Ruby Ridge and Waco.


34 posted on 01/10/2009 11:18:04 AM PST by Pablo Mac
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To: mojitojoe

There is nothing unconstitutional about revolution.


35 posted on 01/10/2009 11:20:18 AM PST by dools007
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To: mojitojoe
When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty

Thanks for the tag line.
36 posted on 01/10/2009 11:24:21 AM PST by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: marktwain
Bookmark!
37 posted on 01/10/2009 11:24:56 AM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: dools007
There is nothing unconstitutional about revolution.

yup and it is spelled out in the Declaration of Independence

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

38 posted on 01/10/2009 11:26:46 AM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Eagle Eye

It started long before this. Long before katrina when the government confiscated peoples personal firearms saying it was for safety and law and order. The government will disarm the very people who will make up the militias to back them up in case of attack by a foriegn or domestic terrorists.


39 posted on 01/10/2009 11:28:19 AM PST by Americanexpat
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To: Eagle Eye

It started long before this. Long before katrina when the government confiscated peoples personal firearms saying it was for safety and law and order. The government will disarm the very people who will make up the militias to back them up in case of attack by a foriegn enemies or domestic terrorists.


40 posted on 01/10/2009 11:29:27 AM PST by Americanexpat
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