Posted on 03/21/2005 9:53:30 AM PST by nmjackson
No one would argue that a well-trained hunter is a safer hunter. Yet, a rural county in Virginia seeks to prevent Orion Sporting Group, LLC. from encouraging safety practices prior to legally sanctioned hunts at its 450-acre hunting preserve.
The Nelson County government has filed a legal injunction against basic firearms safety in an effort to stop safety warm-up practice before hunters conduct actual upland game bird hunts.
"Orion's safe hunting practices are not against the law anywhere in America," said Orion Estate Managing Director Morris Peterson...
(Excerpt) Read more at biz.yahoo.com ...
Ah, I just love the smell of bureaucratic stupidity in the morning.
Unfortunately, they want to make sure that the stench permeates every cubic inch of the known universe.
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