BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN) After much debate, Erie County Legislators approved a new law that will allow 12 and 13-year-old teenagers to hunt deer and other large game.<\/p>\n
But, will the vote stand?<\/p>\n
It is expected that Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz will reject the vote – as he has done in the past – and then the issue will return to the legislature where 8 of its 11 members must cast their support for the proposed new law.<\/p>\n
The proposal would then go on the November general election ballot as a local referendum.- and, if approved, take effect in 2027.<\/p>\n
This is our second chance to get it right,” said Legislator Frank Todaro, who was one of the bill’s sponsors.<\/p>\n
Erie County is one of the few counties across that doesn’t allow 12 and 13-year-olds to hunt deer and big game.<\/p>\n
Teenagers must go through extensive training before they would eligible for hunting deer.<\/p>\n
“This isn’t about big game hunting in Buffalo or Amherst,” Todaro.<\/p>\n
The proposed law passed by a 7-3 count (Legislator Chris Greene was absent).<\/p>\n
Voting in favor of the hunting law was Todaro and fellow legislators Lindsay Lorigo, John Mills, Tim Meyers, John Gilmour, John Bargnesi and Michael Kooshoian.<\/p>\n
Voting against the law were Jeanne Vinal, Lawrence Dupre and Taisha St. Jean Tard.<\/p>\n
Dupre and St. Jean Tard said voting for the bill within two weeks of the Tops 5\/14 shooting massacre didn’t sit right with either of them.<\/p>\n
“I’m not against guns but this law is wrong,” Vinal said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN) After much debate, Erie County Legislators approved a new law that will allow 12 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-180508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}