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Originally Posted by Shannon
I heard a little bit about a new website (based in San Antonio, Texas, I believe) that purportedly exists to allow people to hunt online by remotely sighting and triggering hunting rifles set up on an actual hunting ranch. While I hate to drive them traffic, the URL is live-shot.com so you can form your own opinions and read more about it from "the horse's mouth," as it were.
This does not sound like a good idea to me, on many fronts, and I was surprised to note the typically-slow-to-react Texas Parks & Wildlife actually has a position statement on remote-controlled hunting posted already!
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Hi Shannon,
Saw this this morning on the TPWD web site and took a look at "Live Shot's" web page just now (thanks for the site reference). I was amazed that such a thing would be allowed to happen. I'm all for gun ownership and hunting (even though I don't care for the sport myself) but along with that comes responsability and accountability. I can't see how you can have this if the shooter is a thousand miles away in another state. Gun and hunting laws are at the state level. How do we enforce Texas law on a shooter in Nevada, Washington or worse yet, Japan??? When an accident happens (notice I said "when" not "if"), who's responsable and how is it settled?
There are many gun accidents yearly by hunters and non-hunters. These happen with the gun at least starting in the shooter's hands. We also have computers that glitch, hic-up, belch, freeze, lock and crash. Now we want guns to be controled by those computers through the same web system that will quit at a moments notice! I think not!
Just my 2-cents!
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