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 In early May of this year, TMJ4, a Milwaukee television station, set off a flurry of interest in Oconomowoc and Wisconsin open carry laws.   A Wisconsin mother was in the park, took the above picture, posted it on Facebook, and asked if open carry was a legal practice.   TMJ4 talked to Oconomowoc officials who told them that a local ordinance made it illegal.  TMJ4 broadcast that information to hundreds of thousands of Milwaukee homes. Local Second Amendment supporters were outraged.  Nick Clark, President of Wisconsin Carry, contacted the television station and reporter, and informed them that they had received...

It started when a mother posted a simple picture on Facebook, and asked a simple question: Is openly carrying a gun legal in an Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, park? TMJ4, a Milwaukee based, NBC affiliated television station, asked Oconomowoc officials, who said that they had a local ordinance forbidding the practice, and that it was enforceable.   In the process, they smeared Second Amendment supporters. WisconsinCarry President Nik Clark and other Second Amendment supporters wrote and told TMJ4 that they were wrong, citing the statutes in question.   The TV station went back to the city officials, who doubled down:  Both the city...

HAQLANIYAH, Iraq (Dec. 14, 2005) -- In the town of Haqlaniyah, the “Raiders” of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, continue to patrol the streets every day, keeping the area safe from the ongoing insurgency. On many of these patrols is Oconomowoc, Wis., native, Lance Cpl. Darin J. Wittnebel who has a very important duty that helps him keep the “Raider Nation” safe from improvised explosive devices and find abandoned weapons caches. He carries the PSS-12 metal detector on every patrol he goes on. “The detector can pick up lots of stuff underneath the ground or under piles of...