drawing that UT tag would be easy if......Laws were followed..

[schmalts]

they upheld the laws out there. Imagine if 7000 less applicants were in the draw?



7,000 felons got hunting licenses

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah law prohibits convicted felons from handling firearms, but it does not keep them from getting a hunting permit.

Salt Lake television station KUTV said it compared the names of Utah's 170,000 criminal records with those of the 159,000 people who got a Utah hunting license this year, and, after double-checking addresses and birth dates, concluded

that 7,000 felons got hunting licenses.

Reporter Bill Gephardt said Thursday that the station found convicted murderers, child rapists and armed robbers had been granted coveted tags, like limited entry deer and elk licenses.

Jim Karpowitz, director of the state Division of Wildlife Resources, found the results surprising.

"It's legal for them to purchase a license," Karpowitz said. "It's not legal for them to use a firearm. And if it was their intent to go out with a firearm, then they needed to be reminded that it's not OK to do that."

DWR and the Department of Corrections have now established a system to track down felons on probation and parole or in prison who have hunting licenses.

"We've made a home visit, we've looked at their licenses," said Jack Ford, Corrections spokesman.

However, KUTV said the state is only responsible for keeping track of the 20,000 ex-cons who are still in the Corrections system, and not the 150,000 other felons who have served their time and no longer are in the system, but still cannot legally touch a gun.

"These people are off paper, we are not supervising them," said Ford.

The Department of Natural Resources plans to change hunting applications to stress that convicted felons cannot use a gun or any weapon to hunt.

This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page D4.

 

[nochawk]

old news... I read about that last year. they need to cross check the SS# on the applications or somthing on the felony conviction records and drop them out of the application process... UDWR can keep the $5 app fee and maybe even charge them more for wasting there time.

Need to ask Predator how many she caught last year at the compliance check point she worked last year, I forget but it was a bunch.

They can not carry any dangerous weapons or even be around them, so they should not be able to apply.

Nate

 

[nochawk]

This subject has got my blood up...

either they are building points up to be used in group apps, and if they draw they turn there licenses in and get to keep there points...do it again next year..
like that persons wife add on Ebay ( bidding on who gets to use her points on a group app.)

or

They are drawing the licenses and letting someone else fill the tag (Party hunting)which is illegal.

Nate

 

[whs]

Not trying to stick up for them but they can still hunt with a bow. Any if they get an any weapon tag they can still hunt with a bow during that hunt.

 

[2_Point]

whs- That is wrong. Page 14 of the 2006 proclamation, in the highlighted area: it is illegal to possess or use a firearm, muzzleloader, archery tackle...... I won't copy the whole thing, but you can't hunt with anything if you are a felon.

Even though this is old news, it is a good point to remember. Maybe it should be brought up agina to the Wildlife Board.