North Carolina voters face constitutional right to hunt and fish ballot question

By Chris Eger

The Tar Heel State, with over 500,000 residents who actively hunt, will leave it up to voters to decide if the right to do so should be enshrined in their state constitution. (Photo: N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission)
Lawmakers are presenting voters in North Carolina this November an opportunity to add a right to hunt and fish to their state constitution.
The voter initiative, which passed the legislature as SB 677 by a wide margin on Monday, would open up the bedrock document and install the amendment protecting the right to hunt and fish while establishing public harvest by sportsmen as the preferred method of wildlife management.
“Of all the matters we will consider, this one is perhaps the most simple, but also the most down to earth,” said Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, during debates on the House floor. “The one that is truest to what North Carolina is about. This is the right of the people of North Carolina to be able to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife in accordance with the laws passed here in this chamber.”
If approved by voters, the proposal would be forwarded to a bipartisan state election board and the Secretary of State’s office and would become effective when

Source: Guns.com