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Posted on 05/26/2006 9:59:38 AM PDT by llevrok
ISSAQUAH - The Issaquah man who claims he shot a black bear in self-defense near his home Monday night is now under investigation by the Department of Fish and Wildlife for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for hunting a bear out of season.
King County Sheriff's deputies, officers with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms served a search warrant Wednesday at Aaron Enright's home in the rural High Point neighborhood near Issaquah.
They seized the 10-gauge shotgun he used to shoot the bear, a .22-caliber rifle and .22-caliber ammunition. The search warrant indicates they are seeking evidence that would support a charge of "Unlawful Possession of a Firearm in the First Degree" and "Unlawful Hunt Big Game 2nd Degree: Closed Bear Season."
"It's complete insanity," Enright told us Thursday night.
Enright says that on Monday he thought his black labrador retriever was at his back door so he opened the door to let it in. Instead he stood face to face with a black bear.
He says he backed away from the door and reached for his shotgun, that the bear backed up about 10 feet from the door, then made a move as if it was going to charge at him.
"I'm tracking it and then it turns and I shoot it," said Enright, showing us where he says he stood in his own kitchen when he fired the single shot through the open door. "It turned left and took one step and I shot it."
After the encounter Enright called for help and a Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist tracked the bear to a tree about 100 yards into the woods. That wildlife biologist shot the bear a second time and killed it.
Fish and Wildlife Officer Dan Christensen now officially questions whether Enright was in imminent danger when he shot the bear. He is the officer who sought the search warrant and pursuit of charges against Enright. KOMO 4 News was not able to reach Christensen for comment Thursday night.
Enright was convicted of felony burglary 24 years ago when he was 17 years old. That is the basis for the "unlawful possession of a firearm" accusation.
Enright's record shows that in 1983 he received a three-year deferred sentence. He claims he has since passed background checks to own the shotgun and the rifle that were seized by investigators on Wednesday.
Enright has not at this point been charged with any crime. That will be up to prosecutors to decide.
In Missouri we have a resumption that if someone is breaking into your house you can assume that they are there to do you harm. Obviously there is a reasonable man test, i.e. don't shoot him in the back till the magazine is empty........
Lucky for him, "dead bears tell no tales."
I was noticing that too. 18 is a big deal to me. It is the legal difference between a responsible adult and a child.
I would just sum it up as: Bears are the property of the U.S. Government, and are valued more than human citizens.
BUT..maybe the article is poorly written and there could be evidence found that conflicts with the mans story.
Oh....so you're for letting all felons vote too? You're for letting all illegals that were here after your 'imaginary cut off date' be rewarded and be made citizens? What else are you ready to forgive everyone for things they did at 17? Murder? Robbery? Rape? Child Rape? Where is your imaginary line?
Jeez...another one that wants to forgive felons and let them vote. Illegals on your plate too?
Actually you missed the point of my posting that on my page. The point was not to blame cats for it.
Are you for letting felons vote too? Like Hillary?
You obviously didn't read the article very carefully...
They want a conviction on SOMETHING to make themselves look good. So they pile on all sorts of stuff that probably won't hold up, in order to convince him to plea bargain to pleading guilty on the game charge.
My policy is "If they're too dangerous to have a gun, then they're too dangerous to be loose on the street"
This guy has had no mentioned problems with the law for the last 25 years or so, he was defending his home against a dangerous predator, so I would let him go
A hundred years ago, when you served your sentence, you got your guns back as you exited the jail
A 10 gauge shotgun loaded with double OO buckshot would be a lethal load at close range (10 gauge is 2 gauges bigger than a 12 gauge). The U.S. marines used to use 10 gauge double-barreled shotguns to stop banzai charges during WWII.
She shot a stuffed bear? lol
It was "stuffing" itself with blueberries when she shot it. :)
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lol, yea maybe they should charge the biologist with 'unlawful hunting'... and maybe do a background check on him too for some juevy 'crimes'. :)
He's probably a Dem hippy tree-hugger so what are the odds he'll have a record of anything?....LOL!
Geeze.
Read her page.
Yer wastin' yer time.
[I thought it was illegal to keep wild deer?]
No.
Cats are totally innocent of that crime.
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fwt/back_issues/december98/cats.html
http://www.wildbirds.com/protect_cats.htm
http://www.exn.ca/cats/gonewild.cfm
http://stores.wbu.com/gigharbor
http://whyfiles.org/086urban_critter/
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/news/sty/2005/cats_wild052305.htm
http://www.owra.org/cateffect.htm
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF12/1293.html
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/cats.htm
Anybody ever hear the noise a baby rabbit *just won't stop making* after it's been skinned alive by a cat?
You'll never forget it....unfortunately....or the sound or feeling of having to crush it with your boot to end its horrible suffering.
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