Howard Roark
Retired Moderator
mainetoday.com ^ | 05/11/05 | AP
Maine bans remote control hunting
AUGUSTA - Maine has put up a "keep out" sign for a high-tech version of hunting in which computers and cameras are used to kill animals from remote locations.
Gov. John Baldacci has signed a bill to ban remote-control hunting, in which clients hook up online to a set of cameras at a ranch, then sight game and fire a rifle. The bill, which was signed Tuesday and takes effect 90 days after the close of the current session, will make remote operations targeting game or birds in Maine locations illegal.
By enacting the ban, Maine joins other states that are outlawing high-tech innovations which game managers say give hunters an undue advantage. Maine's law is pre-emptive, since there are no remote-hunting locations in the state.
Legislatures around the country took action after a San Antonio entrepreneur created a Web site designed to let hunters shoot exotic game animals or feral pigs on his private hunting ranch by remote control, with the click of a mouse, from anywhere in the world.
The Associated Press
Maine bans remote control hunting
AUGUSTA - Maine has put up a "keep out" sign for a high-tech version of hunting in which computers and cameras are used to kill animals from remote locations.
Gov. John Baldacci has signed a bill to ban remote-control hunting, in which clients hook up online to a set of cameras at a ranch, then sight game and fire a rifle. The bill, which was signed Tuesday and takes effect 90 days after the close of the current session, will make remote operations targeting game or birds in Maine locations illegal.
By enacting the ban, Maine joins other states that are outlawing high-tech innovations which game managers say give hunters an undue advantage. Maine's law is pre-emptive, since there are no remote-hunting locations in the state.
Legislatures around the country took action after a San Antonio entrepreneur created a Web site designed to let hunters shoot exotic game animals or feral pigs on his private hunting ranch by remote control, with the click of a mouse, from anywhere in the world.
The Associated Press