WRENCH and Sunday Hunting
The Sunday hunting debate for the most part is no longer front and center, The study conducted for the Wildlife Commission and reported on here showed no overwhelming support for changing it even among hunters. At the public hearings this year materials were past out by a group called WRENCH looking to overturn the Sunday Hunting ban. Up until this point other then some material passed out at the hearings nothing much has been said until a column in the Star News by Mike Marsh this weekend. Mike is a strong supporter of lifting the ban and makes some great points.
WRENCH and founder Gerald Spann has a lofty goal to get the ban overturned in 2007 but unless their plan is a covert one it’s hard to understand what they are doing because thus far they are relatively unknown.
What has Spann upset is the state’s last remaining blue law, which bans Sunday hunting with a firearm. He has begun a movement, WRENCH in 2007. The acronym stands for Wildlife Resource Equality in North Carolina Happens in 2007.
I read countless stories about hunting and wildlife in North Carolina and this is the first article about WRENCH I’ve come across. A review of a web message forum dedicated to Sunday Hunting in NC has no mention of WRENCH nor is there much activity at all.
Although I don’t support overturning the ban I certainly support the right of those who want to have it heard to be heard. I thought the actions of the Wildlife Commission at the December meeting was spineless. I’m afraid that for many the debate on Sunday Hunting died that December day and the topic can not be resurrected until it has been dead for a while.
[...] other day I did a story about Sunday Hunting Ban and the effort of an organization called WRENCH to get it over turned. I sent them an email requesting more information on their organization and [...]
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