RE: 76 yr old turkey hunter killed by game warden
stealthycat-the difference is the GW was looking at a shotgun pointed at him. He didn't suspect he was going for a weapon in your candy wrapper analogy.
lanse couche couche- almost all hunters are armed so instead of writing tickets in the field they should be tailed to the house? I doubt the officer thought this would happen when he confronted the guy. He was doing as he had probably done hundreds of approaching a potential violator and issuing a citation.
stonewall- If this guy was hunting turkeys over bait, he was poaching! Poaching is taking animals outside of the game laws, right? In NC you cannot hunt over, near, or take turkeys with the aid of bait, period! Supposedly the warden was not randomly checking private land, he had been tipped off about bait on this land. In NC he was acting totally within his scope of duties. What is the deal with confiscating weapons? From what I have read there was nothing about confiscating weapons. The hunter/poacher was supposedly in a tree stand and was asked to come down when he started pointing his gun at the warden and telling him to get off his land.