A Virginia bill that allows counties to ban the discharge of bows has passed the House and Senate and is on Gov. Mark Warner's desk.
This has not passed yet. If it concerns you let the governor know. You can send him a message at
http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Contac ... _form.html
We can all sit here and write comments on how we do not like some regulations or laws but it is a waste of typing if we only complain amongst ourselves. Complain to those that actually have the power to do something. We heard a lot of talk in the last presidential election on how we as sportsman are a new constituency that politicians are learning they better not ignore. If you do not like the idea of this bill then simply send an email to the governor and it can be as short as
please do not sign HB 2741 into law.
I am not really sure what the point of this law is. Being a pessimist, it worries me that it came about so fast. Most of the other bills relating to hunting and fishing were made known long before the politicians were in session, why wasn't this one? How is it going to be used?
If anyone has more information or insight on this please fill us in. I will do some digging and see what I can find.
Remember, you have no right to complain if you do nothing to stop what you do not like. Email has made it very easy for us to express our feelings towards our representatives, and do not think the governor wouldn’t notice 100 messages asking him to vote no on HB 2741. One or two messages may slip through the cracks but if he sees that 100 ask to vote no on it and only 5 ask him to vote yes he is more likely to listen to the no’s.