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Wisconsin open carry organizers are not sitting still to see what Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn has REALLY told his officers regarding the Attorney General’s memo that the open carry of handguns is legal and constitutionally protected. See the open records request below submitted by Burlington resident Tom Reda, who travels frequently to Milwaukee to visit his son who lives there. Says Reda, “I wanna know what Chief Flynn is **really** telling his officers.” Reda is also planning an open carry picnic in Burlington, WI this summer. Opencarry.org will be helping its members in Wisconsin to use Wisconsin’s open records...

MILWAUKEE - Outdoorsman, gun enthusiast and NRA member Ben Auer believes Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen just made it easier to carry a gun in public. “He looked at our right and he confirmed it,” Auer told TODAY’S TMJ4 reporter Tom Murray. Van Hollen told prosecutors in a memo that simply carrying a firearm should not result in a disorderly conduct charge. “A number of different district attorneys from around the state requested our opinion on this issue,” Van Hollen said. “When you have people who openly believed that carrying a firearm in and of itself was disorderly conduct,...

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Chief of Police Ed Flynn is hopefully going to be out of a job soon. This is a good thing. Take a deep breath and read this excerpt from a recent Associated Press release. MADISON (AP) — Milwaukee’s police chief said today he’ll go on telling his officers to take down anyone with a firearm despite Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s finding that people can carry guns openly if they do it peacefully. Please take the time to read the entire piece (JPFO copy) This is very important information for any gun owner. Chief Flynn then goes on...