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Hunting, "right" or "privlege?"

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Ray:
I hear what you are saying Palmer. However we also have the 1st and 2nd amendments being "regulated" all the time.

Palmer:
Its my understanding that when the legislature gets involved in regulating a constitutional amendment, state or federal, and if you end up in court, you may end up taking it all the way to the supreme court.  The supreme court would then decide if the regulatory measures over an amendment were unconstitutional.  Hopefully,  we have a make up of good justices who studied and believe in the vision of those who founded our country and wrote the constitution.

For instance, I've heard that some states have outlawed the right to own a gun, but has anyone taken this up in the courts and all the way to the supreme court.  I've heard a commentator talk about this recently.  Evidently a similar issue is making its way to the supreme court.  Does anyone have any info?  Kirby Wilbur was talking about it a couple months ago and I was sort of listening and didn't catch the whole story.

Ray:
Legislature does not need to be involved in it if the WDFW has been designated the authority to regulate with regular and real input from the citizens. Of course there will always be a corner case here or there as there is with anything we already have on the books today.

Bofire:
 ;) I am not sure, but I think this issue comes up as the animals are property of the state, so they grant us the 'privilige' of hunting them.
Then again, if the Govt. of the state is us, as we are the citizens, then we own the animals...??? also we cant use boat ramps and stuff the game dept. owns without a permit...
this is all to confusing we need a Lawyer thats on our side.
Carl

Ray:
I don't believe that it would equate to "a hunting right means hunters own the animals"  or even how they are pursued which is seemingly what you are suggesting. That is more complex than most any consitutional right was ever meant to be and there lies more questions and issues. Mostly I hear questions about "regulation" instead of "right" when people have talked about it here.

To me, the idea is...  hunting would be recognized by authorities, their decision making process and that hunting becomes a protected activity in that regard.

To be honest I don't think it will ever happen but that's how I would view it.

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