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New York Adds Bills to Ban Hunting Contests, Trials

New York Assembly Member Deborah J. Glick (D) has already introduced Assembly Bill 722, and now Senate Member Monica Martinez (D) has joined her by introducing companion legislation in the senate. Senate Bill 4253 and Glick’s AB 722, would ban any sort of hunting contest, including field trials and hunt tests for waterfowl and upland bird dogs. Assembly Bill 722 and Senate Bill 4253 are both currently in their respective Environmental Conservation Committees where they await hearings.

Take Action Today! New York members should contact their assembly member and ask them to vote NO on AB 722 and SB 4253. Members can contact their Assembly and Senate members by using the Sportsmen’s Alliance Legislative Action Center.

Current New York law allows for hunting competitions, such as organized coyote contests, to take place. Legislation like these two bills, which is being pushed and supported by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), seeks to end all hunting contests nationwide. Any person or organization caught participating in, organizing or promoting a contest, competition, tournament or derby that has the objective of taking wildlife for prizes or entertainment will face a year of jail time and/or a fine of not less than $500 and possibly as much as $2,000.

Both bills are so broadly written that in addition to any sort of contest – including a club’s big-buck contest or even organized youth squirrel hunts if kids track how many they kill (which is legally required for the purpose of bag limits) and the legislation even bans field trials in the Empire State.

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Reality

The way all of this crap is going lately lets ban all hunting. Pay some game maker to make a coon hunting video game and stop real hunting. That would be a way to get the youth back into coon hunting. Have it linked to the internet and we can have competition hunting from our couch. No more bad weather to deal with no crooked politicians doing what the animal rights groups pay them to do. The animal rights people in ny already messes it up with anti tethering laws, kennel size requirements, no animals allowed outside during certain hours, hell if your dog gets a noise complaint you can get ordered to put them down or have the voice box removed, yes this is an ordinance in down state. Right now hunters rather fight each other than ban together. Look how much we as hunters have lost in the last 30 years. We can ban together and fight this crap or go buy a good lazyboy recliner and tell young people "when I was young" stories. In the words of a great writer on common sense "nuff said".

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Bill Endress