Originally Posted by turkey guide

I invited my GW to set up deer or turkey decoys anytime on my lease. The one time he wanted to, he couldn't contact me for whatever reason,so he didn't. But he is watching my area close and even checked me this past season, so I'm happy.
Missouri is a pretty free state still, and hopefully always will be, as far as our second amendment rights. We can carry weapons openly or concealed almost anywhere and time. Loaded and uncased weapons for personal defense or hunting may be on you or in your vehicle without question. This has also been adopted by IA. At least they will allow you to carry loaded weapons, loaded and uncased with a permit from any state while hunting,or for self defense starting Jan. 1, 2011, Next week. Go to IA dept. of public safety for details. This will be helpful to me when I'm hunting near the state line and want to hit Sub Way in Lamoni for lunch. I don't own a gun case and am not about to unload and break down my guns for legal transport in Iowa, just to drive in two miles and have a sandwich. So my choice has always been risk it, leave my weapons in someones care for a few minutes or avoid IA. and doing business there, which has been my choice most of the time. I've also used the other two options.
My point being that regulating guns or any other personal choice is constitutionally wrong, as it was considered by the framers as a god given natural right, but regulating the misuse of guns, or having consequences for making bad choices that effect others rights is needed for mutually agreed upon reasons like public safety and protecting others rights.
So when you grab your already loaded rifle, stick it out the window, and shoot from the roadway at a decoy that is set up in however safe a manner at a fake deer you are still doing wrong. The decoy will be set on property that is off limits whether posted or not, and you can't shoot from a road or a motorized vehicle in Missouri anyway. So I hope you pay a very large fine and quit being a slob, and that there is still hope for you to learn and become a hunter.
On the subject of GW's having way too much power, I agree. They should conduct their investigations without stepping on our rights like most other law enforcement agents try to do. If it takes two years to convince a judge that you need to check someones freezer, and he won't give you a warrant, then maybe it's not worth wasting your time on. As far as I know only bounty hunters and game wardens have the power to conduct searches of any property any time without probable cause and a warrant signed by a judge, and without any liability of property, or personal damages if you get in their way. They can kick in your door and mace your wife and your dog and pay for nothing, just to serve you with a ticket for shooting an extra squirrel,or missing a court date. On behalf of the bounty hunter, he is acting directly on behalf of the court to bring someone to justice and already has the courts permission to do so. But for a game officer this is wrong and needs to be changed in nearly every state.
When the people take back their constitutional freedoms, I'm all for it, as long as they play by the rules. But I agree that all law enforcement should play by the rules also, and illegal searches with no liability should not take place in America.