Posted on 07/28/2024 7:36:21 AM PDT by CFW
After 25 years, Wisconsin anglers won back the right to carry guns while fishing, but some Wyoming anglers said it would be stupid to ever give that right up in the first place.
Particularly where grizzlies are lumbering about, a .44 magnum could be part of the well-equipped Wyoming angler’s kit.
Even so, don’t entertain any thoughts of leveling your hand-cannon at a trout in a “make my day” moment with a menacing snarl like Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” character.
It remains patently illegal to shoot fish with a firearm in Wyoming or Wisconsin.
Indeed, people who try to blast fish with guns might very well be why Wisconsin banned anglers from carrying firearms in 1999.
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Wisconsin’s ban on anglers carrying firearms had long irritated gun rights advocates there.
The conservative activist group Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty finally made a successful push against it, suing on the grounds that it violated the Second Amendment.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday agreed to overturn the ban, and the lawsuit was dropped, the Washington Times reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at cowboystatedaily.com ...
Notice that the federal government is arming itself including thousands of FBI agents, while trying to disarm you and I.
So that’s how those ‘Tragic boating accidents’ happen!........
“Notice that the federal government is arming itself including thousands of FBI agents, while trying to disarm you and I.”
Which is why gun sales continue to break records month after month.
LOL, not the beer!
“where grizzlies are lumbering about, a .44 magnum could be part of the well-equipped Wyoming angler’s kit”
We don’t have grizzlies, but a momma with her babies is nothing you want to mess with. Let’s just say, this was one of “those” laws.
I would actually prefer dynamite or a concoction of sulfuric acid, nitric acid and glycerin that my friend Jasper told me about. He called it a “magic elixir”.
“Indeed, people who try to blast fish with guns might very well be why Wisconsin banned anglers from carrying firearms in 1999.”
Probably fibs.
Lifted from a piece on Powerline, IIRC:
‘𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐊𝐆𝐁 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐆𝐁 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲...’
“I swear officer...biggest grizzly fish I ever saw!”
We do not have grizzlies in my neck of the woods, but when we venture out from home, we are always armed for similar reasons. However, most of the predators we might encounter are of the two-legged type.
Notice that the federal government is arming itself including thousands of IRS AGENTS, while trying to disarm you and I.
Now there's a dose of reality.
“Even so, don’t entertain any thoughts of leveling your hand-cannon at a trout in a “make my day” moment with a menacing snarl like Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” character.”
That’s real funny. Don’t be a comedian just write the story.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday agreed to overturn the ban
“-And the flying hogfish.
Are as nothing compared to the beast that holds us prisoner!”
“The beast.... -Flying hogfish?
I seen a gliding hogfish once.
Never flying. Not actually flying.”
- Jabberwocky
So they never had the "right" to carry them in the first place.
I support shooting fish.
“The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday agreed to overturn the ban”
So, it was the unelected administrators that a “ban” in place outside of any legislative action.
#ChevronDeference
We regularly shot sharks prior to bringing them aboard. Seemed to take the fight out of them.
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