Massachusetts lawmakers to consider ending longtime Sunday hunting ban

GGReporter · 11-07-2007, 04:15 PM

Jim Wallace likes nothing more than a day out in the woods, listening to the birds, scanning the tree line for pheasants or grouse, and taking aim with his 20-gauge shotgun.
Making it harder is a law more than a century older than the United States that prohibits him from hunting on Sundays, often the only time he has available.
The ban is one of the last of the blue laws - the same code that outlaws frightening pigeons from another person's property, exhibiting albinos for profit, and kissing in public - and one of the few actually enforced.

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11-07-2007, 04:15 PM	#1
GGReporter Magazine Staff Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 717	Massachusetts lawmakers to consider ending longtime Sunday hunting ban Jim Wallace likes nothing more than a day out in the woods, listening to the birds, scanning the tree line for pheasants or grouse, and taking aim with his 20-gauge shotgun. Making it harder is a law more than a century older than the United States that prohibits him from hunting on Sundays, often the only time he has available. The ban is one of the last of the blue laws - the same code that outlaws frightening pigeons from another person's property, exhibiting albinos for profit, and kissing in public - and one of the few actually enforced. More...