Haslam goes hunting
Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Bill Haslam bought the wrong license thus violating state law:
As it turns out, he did not buy the most appropriate license of all under state law – the basic Tennessee hunting and fishing license that costs $27 – though he did purchase other permits that he did not need, according to Haslam’s account and TWRA records reviewed by the agency’s assistant commissioner, Nat Johnson.
After being contacted by a reporter, Haslam said he went back online to the TWRA website late Thursday and purchased the $27 basic license.
Given the apparent situation, Johnson said that – in accordance with normal TWRA procedure – the agency would “absolutely not” make any attempt to penalize Haslam with a fine.
Honest mistake, really. When I went dove hunting, I just went to the guy at the counter and said I was hunting dove and he printed off the two items I needed. Because there was no way I would have known which of the eleventy billion pieces of paper I needed. I hope Haslam takes away from this that gun owners and hunters in this state are unduly burdened with bureaucracy. And, if elected, me might do something about that.
January 11th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Hunting licenses have grown like any other bureaucratic output. Not even the state folks understand the Texas regs at this point, and the license itself is a mess.
January 11th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Doesn’t mention if he bought the required federal duck stamp.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
$27 for a combination license? That’s cheap. That’s about what we pay just for the hunting license…
January 11th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Seems a bit of a mild response when we know of people who have lost their guns, dogs, and cars/trucks for not having the proper license when hunting. I don’t recall any of them being forgiven if they would buy the license after the violation of the law.
But, then, I don’t recall how many of the latter were in Bloomberg’s Illegal Mayors Against Guns.
January 11th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
When some politician begins to run for office who doesn’t really support the RIGHT to keep AND CARRY guns for self-defense, they go show hunting because they really think guns should only be kept carried when confined to a licensed activity.