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Johnson said ne didn t carry loaded firearms in a motor vehicle and wouldn’t hunt with anyone who did but maintained that laws prohibiting this should come from the General Assembly as statewide law rather than enabling legislation. “Supposing each county adopted its own ordinance and they were all different,” Johnson said, arguing that this would be confusing to hunters and game warden alike.
Robert Eastham, who identified himself as a nonhunter speaking for himself and unnamed neighbors in Wakefield District, opposed the ordinances on constitutional grounds. He described the proposed laws as “not only a can of worms but a bucketful of rattlesnakes” and charged game warden Jim Bankston with attempting to “rewrite the constitution” by infringing upon the right to bear arms.
Eastham also critized an editorial that appeared in the February 22 Rappahannock News. The editorial stated that some supporters of the ordinances were reluctant to speak out publicly for fear of possible retaliation — r etaliation that could include burning barns or shooting livestock. Eastham insisted that there are no landowners in
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