Wisconsin is only about 15 miles north. Maybe we in Woodstock, Crystal Lake, McHenry, Harvard, ought to be packing up and moving. Just don't go shooting at Badger Guns/Brew City Shooters Supply range.
The news release from Wisconsin Carry follows, in its entirety:
Greetings in Freedom,
Wisconsin
Carry has learned of some concerning information that we would like to
pass along to our membership and right-to-carry interested folks in
southeast Wisconsin.
In a recently published Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article which you can read here:
It was reported that the former Badger Guns (now Brew City Shooters Supply) http://www.brewcityshooterssupply.com/ has,
since 2009, been reporting the names of every customer that comes in to
use their firing range to the West Milwaukee Police Department. In
this time over 25,000 customer names were reported to West Milwaukee
Police Chief Dennis Nasci who ran a background check on each through
"his system".
So
far in 2012 it was reported more than 8,800 customer name records have
been supplied to West Milwaukee Police by Brew City Shooters Supply to
have a criminal background check run on them. We
do not know yet, how else West Milwaukee Police have been using these
records they have been given by Brew City Shooters Supply, nor if they
are storing those customer names for future reference. We also do not know what other purposes West Milwaukee Police might choose to use these customer name lists for in the future.
Having
spoken with members of WCI who frequent Brew City Shooters Supply,
though they were aware they signed a liability release to use the range,
they were NOT aware in any way that their use of the range was being
reported to West Milwaukee Police Department.
Wisconsin Carry does not believe it is the governments business if, when, or how often law-abiding citizens use a firing range. We
also believe that if a business is going to report law-abiding
activities of customers to local police departments so a background
check can be run with no reason or justification, they should be
explicitly informing customers of this tactic. Wisconsin
Carry rejects the selective intrusion on customers privacy by any
business with no reason or cause other than those customers patronage to
participate in a legal activity.
Wisconsin
Carry rejects the use of public resource to run background checks on
law abiding citizens with no probable cause or reasonable suspicion
whether those citizens were using a firing range, attending church,
going to the grocery store, or stopping in a corner tavern for a
cocktail.
We
do not know if Brew City Shooters Supply also provided the names of
customers who came in to purchase ammunition to West Milwaukee Police.
Wisconsin
Carry has made an open records request of the Village of West Milwaukee
for any and all information and documents pertaining to this scheme of
Brew City Shooters/Badger Guns providing lists of law-abiding customer
names to Village of West Milwaukee Police. We
will send out updates as more information becomes available as to the
extent of the use of that information, whether the rights of law-abiding
customers were violated by Brew City Shooters Supply or Village of West
Milwaukee Police, and any other details which we believe would be of
interest to the law-abiding gun owners of Southeast Wisconsin.
Carry On,
Nik clark
Chairman/President - Wisconsin Carry, Inc.
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