On the Range by Jeff Nass

Plastic snow fence is great for target frames for hanging targets. Targets are hung using spring loaded clothes pins. We came up with this several years ago based on an older design using chicken wire. Although the target itself isn't orange, it was pointed out to me by DNR Hunter Education Instructor Jack Van Sistine that we are still shooting at something orange. With that in mind, many supply stores, including Menards, stock green and black plastic snow / garden fencing. Besides the "shooting at something orange" issue, many find the green a more pleasing color.

The first response in "show me your sign" is from Winnequah Gun Club. The new sign is proudly located on a main County Road, instead of the of the beaten path location of the former sign. Posting a nice sign promoting your club as an asset in your community will help keep your range open. Having a safe, convenient place to site in your deer rifle is good, but it is more important that you get the families in the neighborhood to appreciate your presence. Please send pictures of your clubs sign to president@wi-force.org   

Legislative Update by Jeff Nass

As the chartered NRA State Association,  Wisconsin FORCE supports and the endorsements of NRA-PVF.

The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) endorses Scott Walker for Governor in the June 5 Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election. "Governor Walker has proven his dedication to gun owners and the Second Amendment," said Chris W. Cox, chairman of NRA-PVF.  "Because of his unapologetic support of our rights, Scott Walker has earned an "A+" rating and endorsement from the NRA-PVF."

For more than a decade, the NRA fought for right-to-carry in Wisconsin, only to have anti-gun and anti-self defense governors veto the legislation.  A bipartisan majority of state legislators passed right-to-carry legislation in 2011, making Wisconsin one of the last states to pass this important self-defense law.  Governor Walker kept his campaign promise and signed this hard-fought legislation into law. 

Also in 2011, Walker signed into law critical Castle Doctrine legislation, protecting law-abiding citizens who defend themselves and their families from criminal attack.  This law establishes the presumption that an individual who forcibly enters one's home, business or occupied motor vehicle is there to cause death or great bodily harm, and allows the use of force, including deadly force, against that person. This bill also eliminates any "duty to retreat," so that law-abiding citizens are no longer required to turn their backs on a criminal and try to run when attacked.

Governor Walker also signed into law the Hunting Heritage Act, which encourages the recruitment and retention of hunters and trappers through many creative initiatives, including a reduction in fees for hunting small game, deer, and wild turkeys.  It also offers prizes for experienced hunters and trappers who recruit new hunters to share in Wisconsin's hunting heritage.

 

In contrast, Walker's opponent, Tom Barrett, has a career-long "F" rating from NRA-PVF.  Barrett has supported bans on commonly owned firearms, supported exposing hunters to prosecution, and has consistently opposed commonsense self-defense legislation.

 

"The choice for gun owners in this recall election is clear.  Governor Walker will fight to protect our Second Amendment freedoms and hunting heritage.  Tom Barrett opposes our rights.  We urge all NRA members, gun owners and hunters in Wisconsin to vote Scott Walker for Governor in the June 5 gubernatorial recall election," concluded Cox.

 

Chris W. Cox is NRA's chief lobbyist.  He also serves as chairman of NRA-PVF.  The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund is responsible for political candidate rankings.  These are based on candidate voting records, public statements and responses to NRA-PVF questionnaires.  

Additional NRA PVF and Wisconsin FORCE Endorsement
 

Rebecca Kleefisch (R) for Lieutenant Governor and in the State Senate recalls: District 13 - Scott Fitzgerald (R) Grade: A+ Status: Incumbent over Lori Compas (D) Grade: ? Status: Candidate, District 21 - Van Wanggaard (R) Grade: B+ Status: Incumbent over John Lehman (D) Grade: F Status: Candidate, District 23 - Terry Moulton (R) Grade: A Status: Incumbent over Kristen Dexter (D) Grade: C Status: Candidate, District 29 - Jerry Petrowski (R) Grade: A Status: Incumbent over Donna Seidel (D) Grade: F Status: Candidate.

Wisconsin FORCE Election Results    

Buster Bachhuber - Wausau was elected to a three year term but due to the change in the by-laws at the annual meeting which allows all NRA Board of Directors to be voting members of the Wisconsin FORCE Board of Directors, he will have a position on the Board.
 

Kim Laughland - Sussex, was elected to a three year term.
 

Write in candidate Tom Sermersheim of Hartford has accepted the final three year position. 

Congratulations!
 

The Board elected to keep the current officers for the upcoming year.

Hunters Endorse Walker  
 

Election Day Advice from an Unlikely Source

or a likely source, depending on your viewpoint

Posted on www.nraila.org on May 4, 2012

This week, the Wednesday Journal unintentionally gave flawless advice to the Second Amendment's supporters about who to vote for in this year's presidential election, and why.

The little newspaper hails from Oak Park, Illinois, a Chicago suburb that banned handgun sales in 1977. For the record, from 1977 to 1984, Oak Park's murder rate rose 58 percent, while nationally, the murder rate of suburban jurisdictions dropped 13 percent. So, in 1984, Oak Park's local officials did what all ideologues do when their judgment proves flawed: they doubled down, banning handgun possession altogether.

In 2010, the Supreme Court's decision in McDonald v. Chicago, which built upon its 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, struck down Oak Park's ban along with Chicago's. And that's what brought the Wednesday Journal's editorial writer to the subject of the presidential election, if indirectly.

"The moment will come again when it is right for Oak Park to join a wider battle to eliminate the scourge of handgun violence in our country," the editorial said. But "[t]he highest court in the land, now tucked neatly in the pocket of the NRA, is not going to allow any substantive handgun restrictions. . . . We need to wait for, and work for, the tide to turn, for new Supreme Court members to arrive."

High Power Matches at Winnequah Gun Club by Karin Liebetrau  

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Get out and support your local Friends organization. Have a great time and support our shooting heritage!

 
May 26              4 Man Team, 50 shot NMC Regional
May 27              100 shot NMC Individual Regional
May 28               Palma Individual
                                Matches held at Winnequah Gun Club, Lodi. 
                                Contact:  Scott Liebetrau
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