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Legislative Update

Michigan Senate Bill 525 was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week without amendment and is now before the full Senate.  The bill cleans up flaws in the language of the current law dealing with CPL renewals.

The bill would amend the handgun licensure law to do both of the following:

Specify that an application to renew a license to carry a concealed pistol could besubmitted not more than six months before the current license expired.

Provide that the effective date of an approved license renewal would be the date thecurrent license expired or the date the renewal was approved, whichever was later. Read more

By Glen Wunderlich

Firearms safety is no accident.  If you are going to educate youngsters on gun
safety, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (www.NSSF.org)
lists 10 rules for safe gun handling and there’s no better time to brush up before
we begin our practice sessions in preparation for the upcoming hunting seasons. Read more

A Michigan pharmacist is suing Walgreens after being fired for defending himself with his licnesed handgun.  It’s ironic that the law allows one to use deadly force to stop a felony, but that Walgreens has a policy against self-defense.  Click on the link below for the story…

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/08/benton_harbor_pharmacist_who_s.html

Now that Michigan Governor, Rick Snyder has signed the new Youth Hunt Mentoring system into law, just when do we get to hunt with our kids?  The link below spells it out.

http://www.mucc.org/2011/08/michigan-youth-hunt-program-update/

ISLESBORO, Maine — Islanders in Maine want a deer hunt to control ticks and its epidemic of Lyme disease.  Read all about it here…

MISSOULA, Mont.-Surveys show that three of every four Americans approve of legal hunting, and support is trending upwards. As long as the majority of citizens continue to see this sporting tradition as fair, safe and meaningful, hunting will remain a privilege of citizenship-as well as a boon to conservation.

For hunters headed afield this fall, the Boone and Crockett Club offers 10 ways to help keep the public on our side.

“Modern society has high expectations of hunters,” said Ben Wallace, president of the Club. “In a changing culture with ever more scrutiny of all things related to the environment, our behavior toward animals, the land, firearms and even each other is more important today than anytime in our history.”

Here’s how to do your part: Read more

Saturday a fierce wind blew through the Mid Michigan Old Gas Tractor Show in Oakely, Michigan.  Turned out it was a twister.  Here are some photos immediately after.  The shot of the kid in the people mover was taken Sunday morning.  Attendance was understandably down.

Chicago man gets his pistol back after police took it from him at his home without a search warrant. 

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/jesus-duenas-wins-handgun-lawsuit-chicago-20110819

By Glen Wunderlich

When a hunter or fisherman considers the related costs of an outdoor adventure in a remote area far from home, it may behoove him not to cut corners.  As with the effort to establish a food plot, for example, skipping an expensive application of fertilizer can render the entire effort a failure.  Similarly, the adventure of a lifetime can also turn into a learning session that can only be useful on a future trip.  Read more