Walker eliminates Wisconsin's minimum hunting age

[Archae]

Source: WBAY, ABC affiliate in Green Bay, WI

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that eliminates a minimum age requirement to hunt in Wisconsin.

The bill allows a person of any age to participate in a mentored hunt. The law had previously required a child to be at least 10-years-old to participate in a mentored hunt.

Walker signed the bill Saturday, exactly one week before the state's gun deer hunting season kicks off.

Read more: http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Walker-eliminates-Wisconsins-minimum-hunting-age-457203753.html

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Just great, a 5 year old shoots a gun too big for him or her.

[kimbutgar]

1. When the consequences of this law shows an increase of children dying I hope it is hung around

Walkers cretinous neck.

[MFM008]

2. These idiots won't be happy

Until a fetus can hunt with an AR-15.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Looking through the list, it appears only aobut 15 states have minimum ages for supervised hunts.

Not super strange. Between 8-10 a lot of kids get first exposure to firearms/hunting. My parents took me out for target practice when I was 7 I think. Just a break-action .22.

[underpants]

4. Va passed a law allowing blaze pink to encourage women to hunt

Because not being able to wear pink was the only thing standing in their way

I think the number of hunters is diminishing and they are trying to get people involved but no age limit?

[old guy]

14. The whole issue is to sell more licenses and generate more revenue. Plain and simple.

There will be licenses issued to people under 10 but many will not ever see the woods. The same thing has always happened with wives buying permits just to get an extra deer and never hunting.

[underpants]

15. That too

I can tell you that the Va Dept of Game and Inland fisheries is completely self funded with permit fees. I'm sure if that's the case in every state.

[iluvtennis]

5. This is where it starts and how e end up with Las Vegas, Sandy Hook, Sutherland Springs, ETC

[Marengo]

20. How does hunting lead to mass shootings?

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Wouldn't that go against the federal regulation

for minimum age to handle a rifle, etc.?

[hack89]

12. There is no federal law regarding minimum age to handle guns

there are federal laws regarding minimum age to purchase guns. Every state has laws regarding the minimum age to own a gun. But every state allows minors to handle guns under the direct supervision of adults.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Amazing.

In Germany, only Jaegers are allowed to hold weapons. Not just own. To carry or hold. Adults as well as children.

[hack89]

19. So?

they don't have a individual right to own guns. And it is not like many kids are getting killed in hunting accidents - ATVs, trampolines and swimming pools kill and severely injure many more.

[LanternWaste]

22. 11 trampoline deaths from 1990-1999 alone! The horror... the horror.

"ATVs, trampolines and swimming pools kill and severely injure many more..."

11 trampoline deaths from 1990-1999 alone! Irrelevant bumper sticker philosophies and false-equivalencies certainly allows one the pretense of cleverness, regardless of whether or not that pretense is warranted.

Hence, I get it. "So...?"

[hack89]

23. "Falls off the trampoline often resulted in crippling injury and/or death including paralysis "

Let me finish your quote.

So how many kids are killed while handling guns while hunting?

[Old Vet]

8. All I can say is, What can possibly go wrong............

[Stryst]

9. I grew up in the rural pacific northwest

Hunting was a survival tool for us; most of the meat I ate growing up was venison or grouse. My redneck dad still didn't take us hunting at any single digit number. I'm big, and I was always big for my age, but I still didn't go deer hunting until I was 13. Unless they're hunting bunnies with a varmint rifle, there's no hunting a young child can do.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems like pandering to a certain segment of the right wing crowd.

[GatoGordo]

11. I grew up in rural South Dakota

We had guns for hunting (prairie dogs) from about age 8. We were plinking cans (.22 LR) from age 6. It wasn't out of the ordinary. It was/is the culture. I don't think it is inherently "right-wing", any more than driving a pick up truck is.

[Drahthaardogs]

18. I would agree. We hunted very young for rabbits and fowl

But deer, elk, and moose are a difficult. A kid younger than 12 really has no business handling a high powered rifle

[lapfog_1]

10. My friend was 12 years old

when he and another friend of his went hunting together (they invited me but my parents wouldn't let me go hunting without a parent present).

They were apparently walking through a field in single file when the boy behind my friend tripped and his shotgun went off.

The funeral was closed casket.

To this day I can hear his mother screaming in the back of the church until her family removed her physically.

That was now over 4 decades ago.

[Sunlei]

13. 'mentored' hunt. means more tags for the 'group'. more money for the state.

[NickB79]

16. 34 other states already have this same law

And the woods aren't running red with children's blood anywhere else.

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. Hunting accidents aren't national news

I doubt if they are even local news in most places.