From Animal Killing to Homicide with Recreational Hunters
Drama in Styria: recreational hunter shoots his daughter's groom the day before the wedding.
Recreational hunter shoots son-in-law
An approximately 90-year-old recreational hunter in Mooskirchen (Austria) shot his future son-in-law (57) one day before the wedding. The man died from his injuries. In the afternoon, the suspect was also found dead.
Psychological assessments for recreational hunters
The IG Wild beim Wild demands medical-psychological assessments and an upper age limit. Lethal firearms do not belong in the hands of recreational hunters. More on the topic of Crime and Hunting and Animal welfare issues.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier Poaching and hunting crime in Switzerland we document cases, legal questions and recurring patterns. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
