County Legislator Opposes Rifle Hunting As It’s An ‘Expansion’ Of Gun Rights

By Tom Knighton

Throughout the country, anti-gunners routinely hold up hunting as what gun rights are all about. They’ll say you don’t need something for hunting to justify trying to infringe on our Second Amendment rights by trying to ban it. Stuff like higher capacity magazines, for example.

Yet in upstate New York, a county voted to allow rifle use while hunting large game.

Earlier this month, the Tompkins County Legislature narrowly voted in favor of a resolution that would allow rifle hunting for big game in the area, joining 58 other upstate New York counties that already granted such permission.

While rifle hunting is already allowed for small game, such as ducks and rabbits, the provision expands it to include deer and bear, which previously could only be hunted with shotguns, handguns or crossbows. The measure, which passed 8-6, compels the County’s legislative delegation to support an amendment to state environmental conservation laws, which, by custom, Albany almost always grants.

Although much of New York has long permitted the use of rifles during the three-week big game hunting period, which takes place from Nov. 16 to Dec. 18 this year, discussions on the proposal lasted for months …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms