Since I don't live in New York State, I have stayed out of this until now, but feel compelled to add my two cents. The opposition to this bill coming from hunters seems like the same sort of reasoning used by the anti-gun crowd. Blame the weapon, not the careless hunter. Do you have more careless hunters in New York than we have in PA? With a million hunters in the deer woods we have very few shooting incidents. Rifles aren't the problem, people. I have hunted deer with a rifle for fifty-one years, and haven't shot anyone yet.