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Groundhog's Day the movie, aka crossbow legislation

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Hate to be the pessimist here, but any 2020 Xbow legislation appears to be going the exact same route as previous 5 years. Last year's legislative bills had different verbiage &/or provisions, kudos to NYCC! Bills still died in both the House & Senate's Enviro Conser sub-committees. As of early January 2020 the same bills were refereed to those dreaded, slow death sub-committees ... again. Am I waking up to a new day (year) with new hopes that will eventually end as the previous day (year) did?

Love to get some input on this thread from NYCC about how I might expect this year to be different than previous 5yrs. Just difficult to be encouraged when  Xbow hunters seem to be in a reoccurring Groundhog's Day (legislative) cycle.

Clearly we do NOT need to beat this dead horse again with strong opinions from Pro vs Con members. Looking for suggestions about how to break this cycle.

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They should push a bill with out everything in it ,just one for legal all bow season..  you can change the rest of the specifics pull , ect in future.. I know that will tick people off but there are many legal xbow that are fast and accurate that one could buy.  Compound bow was done the same way , with use of a release, fiberoptic sights all coming at later dates.

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