A sign on posted property in Attleboro warns against hunting, among other things.
ATTLEBORO — Hunters hope to kill an amendment to city ordinances which would create restrictions on their pastime.
At least 80 hunters attended a three-and-a-half hour public hearing at City Hall Tuesday to fight the measure that would ban hunting on conservation land and require hunters to get written permission to hunt on private property.
The conservation commission banned hunting on land it controls in 2017, but has not posted much of it. The commission ban called on the council to enact a law for that property.
The amendment was proposed by councilors Todd Kobus and Laura Dolan citing safety reasons due to a shrinking amount of land available for hunting.
Hunters claim there are no safety issues and that the proposed restrictions would infringe…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Rhode Island???? You bet your ass they’ll have to get written permission to hunt on private property!
Usually property rights are sacrosanct and inviolable in the country, unless it’s somebody else’s, I guess!!!!
To ignore private property signs and postings for no hunting is the height of aggressiveness and arrogance.
I hear gunshots during hunting season sometimes, even close, but the woods behind my house is such a tangle of fallen trees, poison ivy, brush, etc that I doubt anyone could get through but the wildlife. Yes, I post no hunting. I consider my private property an underground railroad of sorts for wildlife. 🙂