By: Brown, Bernsen S.C.R. No. 28 1-1 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 1-2 WHEREAS, During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the 1-3 harvesting of migratory game birds for subsequent resale, or 1-4 "market hunting," was widespread, and this wasteful method led to 1-5 federal regulations to eliminate the practice in all 50 states; and 1-6 WHEREAS, One regulation adopted to curtail this practice 1-7 limits the number of shells a shotgun can hold to no more than 1-8 three and requires shotgun magazines to have a plug to effect the 1-9 three-shell limit; and 1-10 WHEREAS, In the ensuing years, additional regulations have 1-11 been enacted to protect migratory game birds, such as the current 1-12 federal and state daily or seasonal bag limits that regulate the 1-13 number of game birds that can be killed or possessed by a hunter, 1-14 making the three-shell limit and the magazine plug requirement 1-15 unnecessary and archaic; and 1-16 WHEREAS, Enforcing outdated regulations wastes limited law 1-17 enforcement resources that could be better utilized enforcing other 1-18 hunting laws, such as bag limits; and 1-19 WHEREAS, A game bird wounded by a third shot that cannot 1-20 subsequently be killed by a fourth shot suffers an inhumane death 1-21 and is a waste of game resources; and 1-22 WHEREAS, The greater frequency of loading a shotgun 1-23 necessitated by the three-shell limit creates a safety hazard for 1-24 the hunter; and 2-1 WHEREAS, Because migratory game birds can be protected by 2-2 other federal and state regulations, the enforcement of the 2-3 three-shell limit and magazine plug requirement is no longer 2-4 necessary and should be discontinued; now, therefore, be it 2-5 RESOLVED, That the 77th Legislature of the State of Texas 2-6 hereby respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to 2-7 repeal the federal regulation relating to the three-shell limit and 2-8 the magazine plug requirement found in 50 C.F.R. Section 20.21; 2-9 and, be it further 2-10 RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official 2-11 copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to 2-12 the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of 2-13 the senate of the United States Congress, and to all members of the 2-14 Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this 2-15 resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a 2-16 memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.