Pulling this back to the top. Great story & great outcome. Common sense is so rare these days.

Thats whats wrong with the world today..people just can't mind their own business..live and let live..clean up your back yard before u jump over my fence and start worrying about mine..the bible says..take the log out of your own eye before worry about the splinter in mine..

QuoteOriginally posted by Brian Krebs:
at one time; those people convicted of a felony ( and lost their right to keep and bear arms) could still hunt with a muzzleloader. Now that muzzleloaders have been re-invented to be rifles; felons cannot own one.

One thing we can possibly see in our future with the advents of the compound/cam bows...

As in the Olympics; trad bows are used; I would make sure any bow law protects trad bows. Let the C/C bow people worry about their issues by themselves...

Respectfully,

"First they came for the muzzle-loaders, and I said nothing as I wasn't a muzzle-loader. Then they came for the compound bows..."

The lesson from the muzzle-loading example, and from other recent examples in firearm's rights restrictions such as the magazine restrictions in NY, is that you -can't- appease those who would attack your rights by accepting restrictions simply because, for the moment, they don't effect your facet of a sport.

If they are coming after your sport, at all, no matter what they say to get you to go along they will not stop until -they- are satisfied, and that will not be a point you are comfortable with.  

If the compound bow folks are using unsafe methods the appropriate response is to educate them, not preemptively serve them up to the banners.

Again, respectfully.

What Matt said is the way to go- I live in upstate NY finger lakes area, beautiful country but politically we are run by the cities. It is those legislators who make the bonehead laws.  We need a strong voting block to keep going.