Gen. Donald Dunbar, Wisconsin’s adjutant general, to arm certain National Guard personnel in the state “as reasonably necessary” to preserve lives, property and their security. Authorities say the shooter was 24-year-old Muhammed Youssef Abdulazeez, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Kuwait.

Wisconsin is joining six other states in arming on-duty National Guard members after last week’s deadly Chattanooga shootings.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, yet another GOP presidential hopeful, issued an executive order on Friday authorizing his state’s National Guard leader to arm personnel.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images The FBI investigates the shooting at the Armed Forces Career Center/National Guard Recruitment Office in Chattanooga, where guns were banned.

Under the new state law, doctors in Wisconsin who perform an abortion at or after 20 weeks in non-emergency situations could be charged with a felony punishable by up to $10,000 in fines and three and a half years in prison.

David Walters, 30, and Chip Beduhn, 44, both of Baraboo, leaned against their motorcycles outside the station on Tuesday while an American flag the recruiters brought out to them flapped in the breeze.

Groups of veterans stood guard outside storefront recruiting stations in Madison and in other cities across the country this week, some of them openly carrying weapons.

While no official legislative proposal for reforming the GAB has been introduced, Rothschild worries it would set up a more partisan system similar to what was in place before the agency was created in 2007. Troops at recruiting centers are not allowed to carry weapons.

“We’ve initiated some steps to ensure the safety of our personnel so that they don’t become targets”, said Public Affairs Representative, Michael Kucharek. Accompanied by two of his four children, including his visibly teary 13-year old daughter Lesile, Flores asked Walker why he doesn’t support President Barack Obama’s plan to give temporary status to some undocumented workers, including parents of children who were born in the United States.

“We are trained to handle weapons so it would not be out of the ordinary for those of us who have gone through our basic training to have a firearm”, Rickert said.