ORIGINAL: Germ
ORIGINAL: HuntingBry
ORIGINAL: brucelanthier
If you want to have an impact on poaching make the penaltys extremely severe and enforce them, don't limit what legal hunters can do. Why is that, when someone wants to impact lawbreakers adversly they want laws that limit law abiding citizens? This is like the idiot DC gun laws(now rightly overturned), don't allow legal handgun ownership by law-abiding citizens to prevent criminals from using them in crimes. How asinine is that? So, now we have"Don't allow law-abiding bowhunters to carry sidearms because poachers will use them to poach" LOL
While I agree with your point, I think you're missing his. He never said law abiding bowhunters would not be allowed to carry a handgun, he suggested that law abiding bowhunters would not be allowed to carry a handgun with a 10 inch barrel and a scope.
Those guns aren't much for self defense anyway unless you're using them as a club.
true but now you're on a slippery slope
Oh, I agree with you and Bruce. Especially here in PA. More laws restricting what hunters do is not the answer to preventing or punishing poaching. More and better GCOs is the answer. We do not have enough GCOs to adequately patrol for poaching and those that we do have never leave their vehicles.
It's like trying to patrol Compton with the 10 most senior members of the bridge club. It ain't gonna work well.