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I know this is an old thread but...
I know this is an old thread but it's as good as any since you are talking about different places you opened carried.
I visited Wisconsin back in September but haven't been able to get on this sight till now. I OC the entire time there save Madison for two reasons 1) we visited the Henry Villas Zoo and all there buildings have no firearms posted; so, M'wife and I locked our firearms in the car. 2) I took my kids to the Capital Building and wasn't sure if I could carry in the capital. I wanted to take pictures of me OC in the capital so I could post them on Arkansas Carry and show how gun friendly the Yankees in the North are compared to the Rebels in the South are. I talked to a officer inside the capital about the protest that was going on (teachers?) and asked if I could OC. He said they had debated it and decided not to recommend it because Gov. Walker had received death threats, which kind of cuts against the grains of the "peaceful and loving" antigun crowd, are they against violence or only gun violence; because we all no it's more humane to beat, stab, strangle someone to death. But I digress, the officer never did give me a yes or no answer. We had a very cordial discussion anywhere from health care to gun control and everywhere in between. As I walked out one of the entrances another officer was standing there and I asked him but he was neither a Madison officer or a Capital officer so he didn't know. Needless to say I didn't carry at the Capitol or zoo. I did stop to fuel as I was heading out of town on 151 and two girls saw my firearm and started to yell, "he's got a gun, he's got a gun." I ignored them and walked into the building and they yelled you can't carry that it has to be concealed.
We stayed in the Dells OC all around the town except for Christmas Mountain and Bluegreen Odyssey. I even walked up to an officer that was checking parking meters and talked to him while OCing. Not a person said a thing other than comments about my children's shirts. Although two of my boys almost was ran over. We were standing at a curb waiting for the walk signal and as it turned to let us walk there was a big truck that never stopped. It's a good thing I told my kids to wait to make sure he was going to stop because just a few inches more the three of us would've been killed. I think we need to band trucks now.
Anyway, thanks for all your hard work in Wisconsin to give OC such normalcy that not one person freaked except the two girls/woman that my be of ill repute.
I also OC in Portage shopping at the IGA Store, I think that's the name of it. Carrying in Walmart goes without saying.
You have to understand I live in Arkansas where they fight against OC.
I know this is an old thread but it's as good as any since you are talking about different places you opened carried.
I visited Wisconsin back in September but haven't been able to get on this sight till now. I OC the entire time there save Madison for two reasons 1) we visited the Henry Villas Zoo and all there buildings have no firearms posted; so, M'wife and I locked our firearms in the car. 2) I took my kids to the Capital Building and wasn't sure if I could carry in the capital. I wanted to take pictures of me OC in the capital so I could post them on Arkansas Carry and show how gun friendly the Yankees in the North are compared to the Rebels in the South are. I talked to a officer inside the capital about the protest that was going on (teachers?) and asked if I could OC. He said they had debated it and decided not to recommend it because Gov. Walker had received death threats, which kind of cuts against the grains of the "peaceful and loving" antigun crowd, are they against violence or only gun violence; because we all no it's more humane to beat, stab, strangle someone to death. But I digress, the officer never did give me a yes or no answer. We had a very cordial discussion anywhere from health care to gun control and everywhere in between. As I walked out one of the entrances another officer was standing there and I asked him but he was neither a Madison officer or a Capital officer so he didn't know. Needless to say I didn't carry at the Capitol or zoo. I did stop to fuel as I was heading out of town on 151 and two girls saw my firearm and started to yell, "he's got a gun, he's got a gun." I ignored them and walked into the building and they yelled you can't carry that it has to be concealed.
We stayed in the Dells OC all around the town except for Christmas Mountain and Bluegreen Odyssey. I even walked up to an officer that was checking parking meters and talked to him while OCing. Not a person said a thing other than comments about my children's shirts. Although two of my boys almost was ran over. We were standing at a curb waiting for the walk signal and as it turned to let us walk there was a big truck that never stopped. It's a good thing I told my kids to wait to make sure he was going to stop because just a few inches more the three of us would've been killed. I think we need to band trucks now.
Anyway, thanks for all your hard work in Wisconsin to give OC such normalcy that not one person freaked except the two girls/woman that my be of ill repute.
I also OC in Portage shopping at the IGA Store, I think that's the name of it. Carrying in Walmart goes without saying.
You have to understand I live in Arkansas where they fight against OC.
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