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Old 01-12-2011, 11:51 AM
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And how's that working out for them?

Lawsuits for Illegal Arrests in Wisconsin

You can't fix stupid but you CAN make it expensive.
Expensive for who? The poor sap that is legally open-carrying that's who. The OC activists may take on a case or two a year, but what about all the others? Hire yourself an attorney and pay a fortune to prove you're right. Is it worth it? Look at some of these cases in the article you posted:

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The conflicts arise because of the state constitution's provision for carrying gun for "any" lawful purpose and some police departments to take a dim view of citizens with weapons, he said.

The arrest of the woman leaving church is an example of some attitudes, he said.

"As open-carry is perfectly legal in Wisconsin and the officers were aware she (a Wisconsin Carry member) had threatened no one and caused no disturbance, the officers had no reasonable articulable suspicion (RAS) which the law requires, to stop and detain our member against her will. In addition, by drawing their guns on a law-abiding citizen who had done nothing wrong, the officers used an unlawful threat of deadly force during their detainment of our member. The police proceeded to, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause that any crime had occurred, conduct an illegal and unconstitutional search of our member's person and car. Our member was then unlawfully arrested and taken to the Brookfield Police Department for processing," he explained.

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The organization also is challenging the state's ban on open carry of weapons within 1,000 feet of a school, because that distance includes group members' private residences, and easily could trap someone who is carrying legally but doesn't know a school is in the adjacent block.

Clark told WND one dispute arose when a man was carrying and was 984 feet from a school. He was arrested and while charges later were dropped he did spend 17 days in jail awaiting a hearing before a judge.
This poor guy sat IN JAIL for 17 days!!!! You want to show the cops how right you are by SITTING IN JAIL? Oh sure the law is that you can carry openly.... but I'm not sitting in jail to prove it!

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Further, Clark said, at least two other cases already are pending, including one over the "Madison Five," who were carrying while they were enjoying a dinner out one evening. A woman called police, and after she was told it was a legal activity in the state, declined to pursue it.

Police came anyway and gave the five citations.
So these legal folks got citations. Now are they going to pay a few hundred each or are they going to take off work, go to court and see if they can beat the cop?

If an action is not publicly accepted, even if it is legal, it just can't be done without a lot of turmoil. Like I said, good luck. I think you should carry documentation with you regarding what the attorney general said, some court case histories, and probably talk to the chief of police in the area you are planning to carry. When the calls start coming in that a crazed madman is carrying a gun (and the calls will come in - probably exaggerated that you are waiving it around and threatening people) the police will know what the real situation is and hopefully tell the callers that you are completely in your right to carry a weapon.