A Pennsylvania senator failed to eliminate rules against Sunday hunting. But he’s not giving up so easily, a local paper reports.
In Pennsylvania, the ‘Day of Rest’ isn’t typically for hunting — except for when it is.
Thanks to State Sen. Dan Laughlin, three Sundays have opened up for hunting in Pennsylvania after a bill he introduced in 2019, nudging the state away from religious-based Blue Laws that have prevented Sunday hunting for 200 years.
Now, Laughlin says he’s coming for all the Sundays.
In 2023, Laughlin plans to continue pushing the state Legislature to eliminate all remaining prohibitions against Sunday hunting, local paper Lancaster Farming reported.
Laughlin has repeatedly tried to get the bill passed, but it never made it through committee for a Senate vote. He’s not giving up, though, and feels more optimistic about his chances in the new year, he told the newspaper.
“Since the three Sundays were passed, I’ve talked with a lot of legislators who were hesitant about Sunday hunting in the past, but now it’s 99 percent positive,” Laughlin said in the story. “A lot of people who were cautious about this before could find it easier to vote for it now.”
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