Wanna' know how this all started? This is what I heard secondhand at a Bowhunter's safety class this fall...

Some idiot was practicing in his backyard, within or near an apartment complex. Proceeded to shoot someone's cat, which limped home with an arrow lodged in its as$. The cat's owners started a petition and got enough signatures to invoke an initial meeting. The city council at that meeting felt there was enough merit to initiate a new regulation to permit those wishing to fire bows within city limits. This was already a mild victory for bowhunters, as the petition wanted to ban the discharge of all weapons within city limits.

The fear isn't for this one community, which is rather small. The fear stems from the precedent that this would set-off other towns/cities to invoke the same regulation.

Not a good thing, especially with the deer population problems on CT's coastline. Most coastal hunters hunt in suburban lots within city limits.


S&R