DNR to hunters: Hand over your guns on demand

Lakeland Times ^ | 9 January, 2009 | Richard Moore

[marktwain]

A long, but excellent article on open carry and the DNR in Wisconsin. The important part is that officers do not have the authority to disarm you simply because you are carrying a weapon. If that were the case, the constitional right to bear arms for self-defense and security in Wisconsin would make no sense.

[IronJack]

"Your cooperation with law enforcement is vital no matter what the situation is," Lawhern concluded. "To act any other way could result in a tragedy easily avoided by simply following their instructions."

Translation: "Do vat die Gestapo sess or ve vill see to it dat you suffer die conseqvences!"

Maybe some effort should be expended teaching law enforcement personnel to issue LEGAL "instructions."

[Texas Fossil]

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

"Come and take them"

[Mark was here]

And cops wonder why they are viewed as a threat to liberty.

[Vaquero]

Jack booted thugs.

[Eagle Eye]

It looks like it has started.

[DoughtyOne]

DNR hunter education administrator Timothy Lawher should be removed for cause. He is advocating a policy that is against the state’s current laws.

It seems to me that Palin was advocating policies that were sound from the perspective of the private citizen. Law enforcement should not have a problem with that.

[G.Mason]

You've got that right!

I wonder how good those DNR warden survival skills will be for them when they are hogtied, bare assed, to a tree deep in their own territory?

[TMSuchman]

We have the somewhat situation here in Mi. The dnr believes that they can go where ever they want to. I have a NO TRESSPASSING signs posted on my property & I will defend this to the death!

Badges! We need no stinking badges!

[hiredhand]

"Come and take them"

By the time they actually get around to doing that, they will have whittled the likes of true Patriots into such a minority that there won't be much you can actually do. Killing one or two in the process might give you a keen sense of satisfaction just before dying though.

[bamahead]

Libertarian ping! Click here to get added or here to be removed or post a message here!

[Eye of Unk]

Any wives of said enforcement officers should do two things immediately.

Get extended life insurance benefits for hubby, get enrolled with eHarmony.

I kid thee not, America is fed up and will not bend over any more.

No amount of threatening postures is going to convince the public to roll over and submit, some will of course.

Its Obamas fault.

[PubliusMM]

“In West Allis, in August, in a scenario eerily similar to the one Lawhern outlined, West Allis police drew their weapons and arrested Bruce Krause, who was wearing a holstered legal pistol while planting trees on his own property.”

OMG...how utterly ridiculous. The guy is on his own property, engaged in some innocuous activity, but happens to be wearing an openly visible, legal pistol, and he gets arrested?

I hope he gets a very big settlement...

Unfortunately, this kind of Gestapo tactic will become more and more prevalent under the Anointed One, I fear.

Time to refresh the tree of Liberty?

[Hodar]

30+ years ago, the Game Wardens in S. Dakota would ask you to surrender your rifles, shotguns, ect. If you surrendered them, they were confiscated and sold at auction.

However, if you were ‘wise’ enough to say ‘No, I demand due process’; the game warden may issue you as many tickets as you were entitled to, but he could not forcibly take the weapon.

An interesting point was brought up by a wealthy poacher (3 deer, plus others and no license whatsoever) when he was arrested. The law in S. Dak in the 80-90’s (don’t know if it’s still current) held that the Dept. of Game, Fish and Parks could confiscate all vehicles and property used in the act of poaching. In this case it was a new 4-wheel drive truck, a new RV and a new boat/trailer, plus all the contents found inside.

The arguement was that it was ‘unfair’; in that the penalty of using a Lexus SUV to obtain game was a higher price to pay than the person who used a 1980 Ford POS.

[saleman]

Most conservation “officers” here in Alabama are nothing more than jack booted thugs. There, I said it. The have done more to lessen the number of hunters here than anything else. And if any of the “game wardens” here want some examples I’ll be glad to oblige.

[meyer]

"Come and take them"

Agreed!

[marktwain]

Here is a web site of activists that are working to improve the situation:

http://www.wisconsinpatriots.com/

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

They may not have the authority but they have the power, and if consequences have anything to do with “authority,” try resisting and getting killed by one of them and see if they get reprimanded or ordered to compensate your family. Then tell me they didn’t have the authority.
I used to say it would be 20 years before gun rights vanished from America. Now I’m thinking 10 should do it. :(

[mojitojoe]

When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty

[Petruchio]

This is EXACTLY why when I decided to leave Illinois I have not looked at moving to WI.