Connecticut Archers face restrictive ordinance
01-07-2003 | 02:28 PM
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From: College Station Texas USA
Connecticut Archers face restrictive ordinance
From the US Sprotsman Alliance (http://www.wlfa.org/)
A meeting to discuss a local ordinance being considered by the Cromwell Board of Selectmen, which would ban the discharge of a bow within city limits without a permit, has been rescheduled for January 8, 2003.
The Cromwell Board of Selectmen will meet on Wednesday, January 8 to discuss an ordinance that places the control of discharging a bow, and potentially bowhunting, solely in the hands of the police chief. The meeting is set for 6:40 PM in room 224 at the Town Hall on West Street.
The proposal is vague and shortsighted. Perhaps the current chief of police supports hunting and archery and is willing to issue permits, but what happens if his replacement does not? The ordinance does not require the chief to issue a permit in a timely fashion, nor does it set parameters under which he must approve or reject a permit request.
Such ordinances have been introduced in other states. They stem from unfounded safety fears and anti-hunting sentiment.
A National Safety Council report says hunting is safer than swimming, bicycling, and playing baseball, golf, tennis and basketball. The International Hunter Education Association reports only four injuries and one fatality out of six million bowhunters in 1999.
Directions to meeting: Interstate 91 to Rte. 9 south to Cromwell. Turn left onto West Street, 1.5 miles on the right. It’s a renovated school building. Go past the building and turn onto Allen Road to park.
A meeting to discuss a local ordinance being considered by the Cromwell Board of Selectmen, which would ban the discharge of a bow within city limits without a permit, has been rescheduled for January 8, 2003.
The Cromwell Board of Selectmen will meet on Wednesday, January 8 to discuss an ordinance that places the control of discharging a bow, and potentially bowhunting, solely in the hands of the police chief. The meeting is set for 6:40 PM in room 224 at the Town Hall on West Street.
The proposal is vague and shortsighted. Perhaps the current chief of police supports hunting and archery and is willing to issue permits, but what happens if his replacement does not? The ordinance does not require the chief to issue a permit in a timely fashion, nor does it set parameters under which he must approve or reject a permit request.
Such ordinances have been introduced in other states. They stem from unfounded safety fears and anti-hunting sentiment.
A National Safety Council report says hunting is safer than swimming, bicycling, and playing baseball, golf, tennis and basketball. The International Hunter Education Association reports only four injuries and one fatality out of six million bowhunters in 1999.
Directions to meeting: Interstate 91 to Rte. 9 south to Cromwell. Turn left onto West Street, 1.5 miles on the right. It’s a renovated school building. Go past the building and turn onto Allen Road to park.
01-08-2003 | 01:58 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: SW Michigan
RE: Connecticut Archers face restrictive ordinance
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$. The cat's owners started a petition and got enough signatures to invoke an initial meeting. The city council at that meeting felt there was enough merit to initiate a new regulation to permit those wishing to fire bows within city limits. This was already a mild victory for bowhunters, as the petition wanted to ban the discharge of all weapons within city limits.
The fear isn't for this one community, which is rather small. The fear stems from the precedent that this would set-off other towns/cities to invoke the same regulation.
Not a good thing, especially with the deer population problems on CT's coastline. Most coastal hunters hunt in suburban lots within city limits.
S&R
Some idiot was practicing in his backyard, within or near an apartment complex. Proceeded to shoot someone's cat, which limped home with an arrow lodged in its as$. 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
