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Help Pass Youth Hunting Bill
June 26, 2009
Madison, Wis. — State Senate Bill 167 has passed the General Assembly and awaits approval by Governor Jim Doyle. The bill will lower the legal hunting age in Wisconsin to 10, and will relax restrictions on youth gun possession, promoting gun training.
It's not known whether the Governor will sign the bill, so activist pressure is encouraged (contact info at the bottom of this article).
Bill Will Lower Hunting Age to 10
SB 167 establishes a youth hunting mentor exception, which will allow young hunters by the age of 10 to hunt while accompanied by a parent, guardian or — new in this year's bill — a mentor appointed by a parent of guardian.
Here are more highlights of SB 167:
Other Provisions:
Under current law, a person who is 12 years of age or older may possess or control a firearm and may hunt with a firearm or bow and arrow on that person’s land or on land owned by his or her family if no license is required and if the firing of firearms is permitted on that land. This bill allows such a person also to hunt with a crossbow on that land.
The bill also creates a new exception to the general restrictions that apply to firearm possession by persons who are under a specified age. The bill provides that those age restrictions do not apply to a person who uses a firearm in target practice if the person is accompanied by his or her parent or guardian or by a person who is at least 18 years of age who is designated by the parent or guardian.
Action: Contact Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle. Urge him to support SB 167, the Youth Hunting Mentor bill.
Governor Jim Doyle
P.O. Box 7863
Madison, WI 53707
608-266-1212
Track SB 167 and other gun-related legislation affecting Wisconsin gun owners on the WGO Bill Watch Page.
If you're tired of the broken system of compromise and access — a system which has netted gun owners only more gun control — we urge you to Join Wisconsin Gun Owners, Inc. today!
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