{"id":112947,"date":"2019-07-17T11:37:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T15:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=112947"},"modified":"2019-07-17T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T01:17:16","slug":"nssf-lawsuits-to-give-animals-legal-personhood-would-mean-the-end-of-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/nssf-lawsuits-to-give-animals-legal-personhood-would-mean-the-end-of-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"644\" title=\"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AnimalActivists-1024x644.png\" alt=\"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting\" class=\"wp-image-112948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AnimalActivists-1024x644.png 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AnimalActivists-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AnimalActivists-400x252.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AnimalActivists-768x483.png 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AnimalActivists.png 1094w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Larry Keane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Animal rights activists are at it again and now they\u2019ve enlisted the support of New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson. The Nonhuman Rights Project Inc.\u2019s latest target is the Bronx Zoo. The offending act is that zookeepers there deign to care for two grown elephants, Happy and Patty, in captivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, this a violation of their \u201clegal personhood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019ve gone as far as to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/06\/01\/bronx-zoo-protesters-demand-release-of-happy-the-elephant\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nssf-lawsuits-to-give-animals-legal-personhood-would-mean-the-end-of-hunting\" title=\"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting\"><strong>organize zoo protests<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and petitioned the courts to sue the Bronx Zoo and Wildlife Conservation Society for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Specifically, they want to sue on behalf of \u201cHappy\u201d for \u201cunlawful imprisonment.\u201d They say the zoo is illegally denying Happy the companionship she needs from two other female elephants in the zoo, Patty and Maxine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meet Happy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy is a 47-year-old female Asian elephant who has lived alone for 13 years. It wasn\u2019t always this way. She was captured as an infant with several other elephants and was paired with another elephant, Grumpy, until that elephant was killed by Patty and Maxine, the same elephants with whom Nonhuman Rights Project contends Happy should be housed. Happy was later paired with another elephant named Sammy, who had to be euthanized in 2006. Maxine, one of the elephants who attacked Grumpy, was euthanized last year due to advanced cancer. Zookeepers attempted to pair Happy with Patty, but after a week, it was clear the two wouldn\u2019t bond well and the attempt was called off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A zoo spokesperson called the lawsuit \u201cludicrous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division last year thought so too. Nonhuman Rights Project\u2019s case was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/10\/02\/animal-rights-group-claims-bronx-elephant-is-a-person\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nssf-lawsuits-to-give-animals-legal-personhood-would-mean-the-end-of-hunting\" title=\"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting\"><strong>thrown out<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monkey Business<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, they\u2019ve tried this before with chimpanzees. In 2018, the same court denied the same group the same argument for a chimpanzee named&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/buffalonews.com\/2018\/05\/09\/appeals-court-rejects-claim-of-personhood-for-captive-chimpanzees\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nssf-lawsuits-to-give-animals-legal-personhood-would-mean-the-end-of-hunting\" title=\"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting\">Kiko<\/a>.<\/strong>&nbsp;They lost spectacularly then, but they could have predicted that outcome too. That\u2019s because they tried it before in 2015 at the State Supreme Court for two chimpanzees named&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/new-york-chimpanzees-hercules-and-leo-denied-personhood-rights-by-judge\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nssf-lawsuits-to-give-animals-legal-personhood-would-mean-the-end-of-hunting\" title=\"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting\"><strong>Hercules and Leo<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;They lost that attempt to force Stony Brook University on Long Island to move the chimps to a Florida sanctuary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The significance of these lawsuits to the firearms industry and hunters shouldn\u2019t be underestimated, wrote James Delingpole for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2016\/06\/animal-crackers\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nssf-lawsuits-to-give-animals-legal-personhood-would-mean-the-end-of-hunting\" title=\"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting\"><strong>The Spectator<\/strong><\/a>. The driver of these cases is Stephen Wise, an activist and lawyer. Delingpole noted that Wise was dismissed as a nut in his early days. Now, he teaches at Harvard University. That means if Wise wins today or through his proteges in the future, \u201cNo more foie gras. No more crispy duck.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also means no more hunting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Threats to Hunting<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>If the courts agree to Wise\u2019s claims that Happy the elephant, or Kiko the chimpanzee are guaranteed the right to legal personhood, it\u2019s not a far stretch to see the courts hearing cases of denial of legal personhood through harvesting of wild game. In other words \u2013 murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is already happening. Look to New Jersey, where Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy campaigned on a promise to end the state\u2019s black bear hunts. He tried, but was limited by law to prohibiting hunts on state-owned land, a&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/new-jersey\/2018\/08\/20\/nj-gov-phil-murphy-closes-state-lands-bear-hunts\/1046426002\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nssf-lawsuits-to-give-animals-legal-personhood-would-mean-the-end-of-hunting\" title=\"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting\">prohibition<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;he enacted in 2018. It was done despite the state\u2019s Division of Fish and Wildlife noting the bear population could double by 2022 without hunting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Jersey bear hunters face more than legal obstacles. They\u2019re getting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2018\/10\/social_media_comments_on_bear_hunt_drawing_scrutin.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nssf-lawsuits-to-give-animals-legal-personhood-would-mean-the-end-of-hunting\" title=\"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting\"><strong>death threats<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;from activists who make unfounded emotional pleas instead of sound scientific decisions. It\u2019s not just bear hunters either. Activists&nbsp;protested&nbsp;the First Annual Family Squirrel Classic earlier this year, an event to introduce new hunters to a centuries-old tradition of small game hunting. It\u2019s the type of hunt many youths start on to work up to hunting bigger game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NSSF Protecting Hunting<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why the National Shooting Sports Foundation\u00ae isn\u2019t dismissing these instances as fanatical examples of a fringe element. NSSF was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guns.com\/news\/2018\/11\/09\/north-carolina-voters-add-right-to-hunt-fish-to-state-constitution\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nssf-lawsuits-to-give-animals-legal-personhood-would-mean-the-end-of-hunting\" title=\"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting\"><strong>leading the effort<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;in North Carolina in 2018 to add the Tar Heel State to the list of 22 other states where hunting is a constitutionally-protected right. Eighty percent of the state\u2019s lawmakers voted to add it as a ballot question. Voters spoke in 2018 and more than 2 million voters agreed to add it to the state\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These efforts also deny the role the hunter-conservationist plays in wildlife conservation. Specifically, it ignores the role the firearms industry has performed, generating more than $38 billion in Pittman-Robertson excise taxes by firearms and ammunition manufacturers that goes directly to wildlife conservation. North American wildlife is at the healthiest levels ever, because of the efforts of hunter-conservationists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s time to keep the activists from turning out courts into a zoo and our wildlife into a cartoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Larry Keane\u00a0<\/strong><em>is Senior Vice President of Government and Public Affairs and General Counsel for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nssf-lawsuits-to-give-animals-legal-personhood-would-mean-the-end-of-hunting\" title=\"NSSF: Lawsuits to Give Animals Legal Personhood Would Mean the End of Hunting\">National Shooting Sports Foundation<\/a>, the firearms industry trade association.<\/em><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on 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