Right to Hunt & Fish Amendment
Right to Hunt & Fish Amendment Facts at a Glance
Right to Hunt and Fish (RTHF) amendments work to protect against future threats to the right to hunt and fish that do not exist today.
The right to hunt and fish has roots in America even before 1776. Historically, the English game laws made hunting a monopoly of those privileged to do so by the Crown, and imposed draconian penalties, by contrast, the American colonists were free to hunt.
22 states recognize the Right to Hunt and Fish (RTHF) in their constitutions. NRA has worked hard to secure these rights and will continue to fight for these rights in all states.
In 20 of the 22 states RTHF amendments were approved by the voters.
The rest of the RTHF states—Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming have passed since 1996.
Florida and New Hampshire statutorily recognize the right to hunt and fish.
California and Rhode Island constitutionally guarantee the right to hunt but not fish.
Alaska’s constitutional language is considered by some to guarantee the RTHF because of its strong case law history
Sunday, February 1, 1981
Jim Gardner was asleep in his Wixom, Mich., apartment when he heard a knock at the door. Finding ...
Sunday, February 1, 1981
An unidentified woman clad only in panties heard a glass door shatter in her suburban Cincinnati home. Picking ...
Sunday, February 1, 1981
When John Woolman responded to a knock at the door of his Porter, Ind., home, a man threatened ...
Sunday, February 1, 1981
NRA Life member Richard Willard awoke to the sounds of someone rummaging about his Woolwich, Maine, home. Armed ...
Sunday, February 1, 1981
St. Louis, Mo., restauranteur Gus Kircher started carrying a gun in his restaurant after he was robbed of ...
Sunday, February 1, 1981
Entering his law office in Bangor, Maine, attorney Peter A. Anderson, an NRA Life member, found a burglar ...
Thursday, January 1, 1981
Serena Ashburn was talking on the phone when she heard glass breaking in her Chesapeake, Va., house. She ...
Thursday, January 1, 1981
Awakened at 4 a.m. by the sounds of a prowler in her San Pablo, Calif., home, Ressie Page ...
Thursday, January 1, 1981
Walter Lundquist was rejoining his wife parked in the couple's pickup at a Yuma, Ariz., rest stop, when ...
Thursday, January 1, 1981
Hearing noises in the garage of his Rolling Prairie, Ind., home, Rick Gurrola picked up his shotgun, investigated, ...
