Felons, Parolees Getting Hunting Licenses

AP via Newsday ^ | January 29, 2006 | MATT GOURAS

[Pharmboy]

Curious as to what you folks think of this. I, for one, do not believe that a felon should ever own a firearm. A bow and arrow, okay.

[angkor]

Wasn't a similar story posted about a year ago? I do recall this issue coming up once before.

In any case, I don't have a problem with them using bow and arrow if their state law permits it. Federal law certainly doesn't.

[joesnuffy]

Depending on the felony...once someone has paid their debt and goes onto a productive life...they have the right to defend themselves their wive's and children.

With the kinds of crime we are now seeing in America thanks to illegal alien drug thugs and MS13 & MS18 imigrants......everybody with a family should be armed...the evil ones sure as hell are...and won't give up their guns regardless of who says they have to...

imo

[1FASTGLOCK45]

Wouldn't it be ironic for a felon that has commited murder trying to get a hunting license? :P

[brushcop]

I wholeheartedly agree with you. As a retired game warden (31 yrs.), we targeted felons hunting with firearms for several reasons. Depending on felony, they could not possess a firearm in the first place; it could lead to further evidence of other crimes by these folks.

I don't know why the public is brain-dead on this issue. They seem to equate high-powered firearms as somehow harmless when possessed by a felon who is hunting, illogically believing that such arms can only kill four-legged critters, not the two-legged variety, you figure it out, I give up.

On other hunting related threads I always encouraged looking beyond the hunting "accident", to look deeper. Sometimes agencies are too quick to write off a hunting related death as an accident when truth be known, it could easily be a murder. Verify, verify, verify, no coincidences in crime, all leads followed to their very dead end. Not unusual for high dollar deals to be made (or lost) on hunting trips, enemies made, debts paid...

[RAY]

Maybe their wives own the gun and they simply use them to hunt with. Don't laugh, I heard Gordon Liddy say something to this effect when questioned about his post felon target shooting.

[Pharmboy]

Good points made, and a few that never occurred to me.

I have never gone hunting with anyone that owed me money...LOL!

[Ichneumon]

Maybe their wives own the gun and they simply use them to hunt with.

That would still be illegal. It's not only illegal for felons to *own* firearms, it's illegal for them to "possess" them, which includes borrowing one and just holding it (or taking it hunting).

Don't laugh, I heard Gordon Liddy say something to this effect when questioned about his post felon target shooting.

I haven't heard him admit to target shooting (since that too would be illegal for him to do), but I did hear him joke about how "I don't have any guns, but my wife has a lot of them, and she keeps them in the beside table on my side of the bed..."

[68skylark]

It's legal for felons (and others prohibited from owning guns) to hunt, as long as they use legal weapons like a bow and arrow. So what's the point of this story?

[lesser_satan]

What kind of felony does G-Lid have on his record?

[Fido969]

The article seem to try to equate "hunting licence" with "having a firearm".

The reporter probably went to public school or something. Not a deep thinker, it would seem.

[A knight without armor]

Here I thought I just had a demented mind. Whenever I hear of a hunting "accident", I just about always wonder if it was murder.

[blackie]

I agree with you Joe ~ when you've paid your debt to society, you should get your Rights back.

[Gabz]

There was a big article in a Delaware paper just the other day about this very same issue. Delaware is a state with no mechanism to determine if someone applying for a hunting license is permitted to own a firearm.

I do respectfully disagree that all felons should be barred from a restoration of second amendment rights.

[Old Professer]

My dead used to catch rabbits with deadfalls.

[Old Professer]

My dad is dead but I meant to say dad, sorry.

[hoosierham]

Me,too.
I don't believe in accidents or coincidence;at the lest hunting deaths are a result of the shooters carelessness.I believe too many shoot at sounds of brush shaking.

[bad company]

I agree with you Joe ~ when you've paid your debt to society, you should get your Rights back.

+1 on this. If you're such a risk that you can't be around weapons you shouldn't be out amoung the public, otherwise restore their rights.

[Inyo-Mono]

state officials note that most felons could legally hunt using other weapons, such as bows.

It is also perfectly legal for convicted felons to hunt with muzzle loading black powder firearms (rifles/shotguns/revolvers).

[riverrunner]

As the number of feloneys increased so has the number of people not allowed to own guns.

When feloneys were few and simple this law made sense Now one doesn't have to to much to be covicted of a felony. I say there should be a way for some to restore their rights.