I-1401 Wildlife Trafficking Initiative Passing in ALL Counties

[JimmyHoffa]

I was surprised that it passed all counties.  Kind of figured a few eastside counties would reject it, and westside would pass.  I don't even want to know what Allen will have on next years ballot. 

[pianoman9701]

I'm not at all surprised. I saw nothing about this on the news at all, no commercials at all. At first glance, the initiative seeks to protect endangered species from extinction. Who wouldn't want that? The organizations like SCI who campaigned against this on hunting channels were wasting their money preaching to the choir. They should've been on KOMO and King5 with that money educating people who didn't know what this was going to be about.

[CAMPMEAT]

We had commercials on TV over here. I voted NO....

[pianoman9701]

I voted NO, too. I'm probably one of the few around here who did.

[Bob33]

How many  hunters in Washington, again?

200,000 plus or minus. 3% to 4%.

[pianoman9701]

I bet a good portion of the hunters voted for it too. A lot of people didn't know about it.

[PolarBear]

The devil is in the details. These knee jerk voters just saw the warm and fuzzy parts and that was enough for them.   

[Bean Counter]

Well that's 200,000 (plus say 100,000 spouses )that should have no. I'd like to think that I could have convinced a few of my neighbors and friends to vote No as well.

[bigjohn98591]

I voted NO on this so did my wife and daughter. When My wife asked how to vote on it I told her to vote no, of course she questioned it. After I explained why she was totally in support of voting no.

[pianoman9701]

The devil is in the details. These knee jerk voters just saw the warm and fuzzy parts and that was enough for them.   

Yeah, imagine reading the voter's pamphlet! 

[Hi-Liter]

Paul Allen ever heard of the Lacey Act?

[Bob33]

There were at least three posts started about 1401 on Hunt WA.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,184847.0.html
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,178998.0.html
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,184105.0.html

I sure hope that no one on Hunt WA wasn't aware of this. If you weren't, you need to somehow get yourself tuned in better.

It is a calculated, steady, never ending attack on our rights as gun owners and sportsmen.

[bigtex]

It'll be interesting to see the level of enforcement that WDFW provides in enforcing this law.....

[bigtex]

Paul Allen ever heard of the Lacey Act?

Well WDFW actually wanted the legislature to create a state version of the Lacey Act in 2014 and the legislature did so.

In reality, this initiative is a version of other bills/initiatives that are taking place in a lot of states. It just had some big $ behind it here.

[bobcat]

I haven't voted yet, and probably won't, since I didn't  receive my ballot in the mail. I also haven't read anything about this initiative, other than what I've seen on here.

So can someone tell me how exactly this affects hunting in Washington? Or even any hunting in the U.S. Doesn't it only have to do with endangered species?