Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:02:16 -0400
From: bobhunt@erols.com
Subject: [lpaz-repost] (fwd) [Liberty Outlook] Army warns those hunting on military land: Guns must be registered
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On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 10:02:39 -0700, "Mark Laythorpe"
<xntryk1@xntri-city.com> wrote:

http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/1683491p-1800422c.html

Published: August 29, 2002

Army warns those hunting on military land
WEAPONS: Guns must be registered with the Army.
The Associated Press

Fairbanks -- Hunters on military land will be required this year to register
their guns with the Army.

The Army will begin enforcing the regulation, which has been on the books in
Alaska for almost a decade, beginning Sunday, said Army Alaska spokesman
Chuck Canterbury at Fort Richardson in Anchorage.

The moose and waterfowl seasons open on Sunday.

The registration requirement is not going to sit well with most Alaska
hunters, Mike Tinker, chairman of the Fairbanks Fish and Game Advisory
Committee, told The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

The advisory committee makes recommendations to the Alaska Board of Game and
Board of Fisheries regarding fishing and hunting regulations in the
Fairbanks area.

"If I'm going to hunt out in the Tanana Flats, 100 miles from any kind of
military installation, I have to register my gun?" Tinker asked. "That's
ridiculous. ... It's not a safety thing; it's a paper thing."

Starting this year, hunters are also required to have a hunter education
certificate to hunt on military land, a regulation the Army adopted almost
three years ago but delayed putting into effect after hunters argued they
hadn't been given enough time to take the course.

The regulation requiring gun registration has been in effect since at least
1994, Canterbury said. The regulation was updated as part of normal Army
procedure on Aug. 1, and word came down later that the regulation will be
enforced this year.

Canterbury wasn't sure if the gun registration requirement was a result of
heightened security on military bases as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks.

Conservation officers patrolling Army lands may seize guns that have not
been registered.

In addition to the gun registration and hunter education requirements, the
Army is contemplating a controversial ban on ATVs and airboats in the Tanana
Flats.

  2002 The Anchorage Daily News

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