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“They’re willing to gamble with other people’s lives for their own pleasure,” she said.
One Loudoun County landowner described a confrontation last year between the manager of his Middleburg estate and a group of poaching hunters, who allegedly sprayed the manager with shotgun pellets. J.W. Abel-Smith of Middleburg read a letter from Robert M. McKinney, who owns Windfields estate near Middleburg, that recounted the incident.
The National Rifle Association joined the fray, eager to head off proposition of a “cased gun law,” which would require guns to be unloaded and cased when carried in vehicles on public roads.
The NRA ‘Is leery of endorsing such a sweeping program,” said James M. Norine, director of the NRA’s Hunter Services Division, but it does endorse a series of legal and legislative measures to combat the problem.
Mr. Norine proposed:
• A reward program to encourage other hunters to report “hoodlum hunters.”
• Met v igorous prosecution and tougher penalties when illegal hunting cases come to court.
• Increased law enforcement during deer season east of the Blue Ridge, because the season there runs about a month longer than west of the mountains.
• A law that effectively prohibits road-hunting without going as far as
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