Archive for October, 2009

Let’s Help the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence Make Wisconsin Safer

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

If we all work together, we can prevent domestic violence homicides in Wisconsin.
Please Call or Email Your Legislators Today
Ask them to co-sponsor SB 380 and SB 381.
Right now, there are laws on the books that are meant to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers. However, tragically, these laws are […]

Using the Second Amendment to Attack Democracy A Q&A with Joshua Horwitz, author of ‘Guns, Democracy and the Insurrectionist Idea’

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

By Lisa Kaiser
Those armed protesters at anti-tax and health care reform rallies aren’t an anomaly, argues Joshua Horwitz, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. They’re part of a fringe element of the gun rights movement that supports armed rebellion against what they see as tyrannical government control. But Horwitz, author […]

Shooting Down Gun Laws

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

By Joel McNally
Milwaukee officials united behind a major new effort to reduce the devastation caused by handguns in Wisconsin until, inexplicably, some of those same officials began negotiating against themselves.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Police Chief Ed Flynn and Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm put together an impressively coordinated campaign against handgun violence after tracing […]

Please Join Us for an Evening with Josh Horwitz

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Our cherished freedoms don’t come from guns, but rather from open debate and free elections. Yet recently, the NRA has been saying, “The guys with the guns make the rules,” and gun-toting protesters have been showing up at political events. Is democracy under attack?
You’re invited to join WAVE
for a provocative and entertaining
Evening with […]

On the heels of the recent UC Davis study, yet another new report adds to the evidence supporting WAVE’s work to improve Wisconsin’s background check system for firearm sales.

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Investigators Document Repeat Illegal Sales at Gun Shows
David S. Fallis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 7, 2009; 6:14 PM
Undercover investigators working on behalf of the New York City mayor’s office repeatedly bought guns from unlicensed dealers at gun shows even though they disclosed they probably couldn’t pass a background check.
That finding is among those outlined […]