In Wisconson, hand over your guns on demand


The police state marches on

Another scary story.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has a simple, blunt message for hunters in Wisconsin: When a DNR warden asks you to give up your legal firearm, do so, plain and simple, no matter what.

What's more, that goes for all citizens, the agency has asserted. Citizens with firearms, the DNR argues, should always do exactly what law enforcement officers tell them to do, regardless of the circumstances of the situation.

To which one former hunter education instructor for the department has an equally simple and blunt response: The agency's directive is unconstitutional, plain and simple, and citizens don't have to hand over their firearms without any probable cause.

That viewpoint is the reason Mark Palan, the owner of Palan's Outpost Sporting Goods in Iowa County, has the word 'former' attached to his title. After 14 years as a volunteer instructor, the DNR cast him out last year for, in the agency's words, misrepresenting agency standards to hunter education students.

Just because someone is law enforcement, that doesn't always make them right.

Given the stories of out of control police officers who get off lightly when they break the law or even police raids at the wrong address, I think we have every right to be frightened.

People forget, part of the meaning of the Second Amendment is to keep the government in line.

Hat tip Leslie at Mountain West Freedom Network.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Wed - January 14, 2009 at 03:10 PM  Tag


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