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1-16           WHEREAS, Enforcing outdated regulations wastes limited law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.