American Huntress Faces ‘Firearms Offenses’ in Scotland After Photo with Trophy Goat

[Swordsmyth]

American huntress Larysa Switlyk faces “firearms offenses” in Scotland after a photo was released in which she posed with a trophy goat.

On October 25, 2018, Breitbart News reported (https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2018/10/25/american-huntress-faces-death-threats-for-shooting-wild-goat-in-scotland/) that Switlyk made the shot at Islay, Scotland, then faced death threats after posting a photo of her posing with the dead animal.


Numerous respondents demanded that Scotland do something to stop such hunts from taking place. The outcry eventually grew strong enough that Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, pledged the government would “review the current situation and consider whether changes to the law [for hunting such animals] are required.”
Fox News reports (https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/hunter-and-host-of-larysa-unleashed-reported-for-firearms-offenses-in-scotland-after-posting-controversial-photo) that Scotland had now brought charges against Switlyk for “firearms offenses.” Police released a statement saying, “Following several complaints of wild goat ‘trophy’ hunting on Islay in (October), Police Scotland can now confirm that a 33-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man from the USA have been reported to the Procurator Fiscal for firearms offences.”
The BBC reports (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-46672444) that Switlyk was “reported under section 11a of the Firearms Act 1968, which refers to authorized lending and possession of firearms for hunting.”
The Firearms Act 1968 requires that those who borrow a firearm from someone else must:


Be borrowing the rifle or shot gun for the purpose of hunting animals, shooting game or vermin or shooting at artificial targets
Comply with any conditions specified in the lender’s certificate
Be accompanied by the lender or someone who holds the relevant certificate

No one reported whether “the lender or someone who holds the relevant certificate” was the person photographing Switlyk with the wild goat.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/26/american-huntress-faces-firearms-offenses-in-scotland-after-photo-with-trophy-goat/

[RonZeplin]

Put a $100 per bottle tariff on Scotch Whiskey and see how quickly the charges get dropped.

[Swordsmyth]

Put a $100 per bottle tariff on Scotch Whiskey and see how quickly the charges get dropped.
You mean that would actually hurt them more than us?

Doesn't that mean that Trump is right about the foreign countries tariffing our industries?

[Anti Federalist]

after posting a photo

Yeah, lady, I found your problem...

[Swordsmyth]

Yeah, lady, I found your problem...
People need to stop advertising their entire lives to the whole world.

I can't even understand why they would want to.

[oyarde]

I have never taken photos of my scotland hunting .

[tod evans]

https://www.svtperformance.com/attachments/team-usa_zpsvhjzqsqq-jpg.647724/

[AuH20]

There is a screw loose with this one. What's with the dildo?

[XNavyNuke]

City folk. Bah!
SGA CHAIRMAN RESPONDS AGAIN TO GOAT HUNTING FURORE (https://news.scottishgamekeepers.co.uk/2018/10/sga-chairman-responds-again-to-goat.html)


Last year, in Scotland, 112, 500 deer were killed and Michael Russell, - the Brexit Minister who responded angrily to the picture of Larysa Switlyk posing with a dead goat on Islay - has personally campaigned for more culling to promote Scottish Government’s forestry expansion target and to bring more protected sites into favourable condition.
Yet, in the west, feral goats can do as much damage to the natural heritage as deer can. There seems to be a selective view of the “natural heritage” and what ought to be killed without the knowledge of the processes which underpin it.

Seriously though lady, you're doing yourself no favors here.

XNN

[RJB]

Yeah, lady, I found your problem...


People need to stop advertising their entire lives to the whole world.

I can't even understand why they would want to.
No!!! I like looking at pictures of chicks with guns. We must encourage it, not demonize it. Outlaw pictures of dinners at some restaurants I will never go to instead!

[dannno]

Put a $100 per bottle tariff on Scotch Whiskey and see how quickly the charges get dropped.

Normally that is where I'd draw the line..

But Suntory Toki Japanese whiskey blend is $30/bottle at Costco and is good as any $60-$80 of Single Malt from the Islay region (my particular favorite).

The Japanese Single Malts are outrageously expensive these days tho if you want anything better..

[dannno]

People need to stop advertising their entire lives to the whole world.

I can't even understand why they would want to.

They are hot, they get a lot of likes.

[Origanalist]

https://www.svtperformance.com/attachments/team-usa_zpsvhjzqsqq-jpg.647724/

http://www.fishingworld.com/uploads/sites/37/website/Pages/2970/news/articles/32998/30596_large.jpg

[CCTelander]

I, for one, make it a point never to offend firearms in Scotland, or anywhere else for that matter. Hell, some of my best friends are firearms.

[Todd]

I once hunted very often. Here's the thing. I have always thought very little of trophy hunters. I kill a deer, I'm eating it. I think very little of hunters who think they are tough guys who go and kill a giraffe and other animals like a goat which require little skill to bag...... for the hell of it.

Really hard to find any sympathy for someone who kills a goat and then thinks it's really coolio to post a picture of it

[dannno]

I once hunted very often. Here's the thing. I have always thought very little of trophy hunters. I kill a deer, I'm eating it. I think very little of hunters who think they are tough guys who go and kill a giraffe and other animals like a goat which require little skill to bag...... for the hell of it.

Really hard to find any sympathy for someone who kills a goat and then thinks it's really coolio to post a picture of it

Ya but how do you know that the meat wasn't eaten in this case?

As far as no skill, they said it took them 2 days to find a trophy goat. Sounds like they had a lot of fun. Why wouldn't you take a picture?

[Todd]

Ya but how do you know that the meat wasn't eaten in this case?

As far as no skill, they said it took them 2 days to find a trophy goat. Sounds like they had a lot of fun. Why wouldn't you take a picture?

From what I can gather Scotland Goat hunting is mostly open terrain, which means they can't hide. If it took them two days they must be shitty hunters. I dont' know if she ate it. I'm highly doubting they did. Especially the Giraffe.

[dannno]

From what I can gather Scotland Goat hunting is mostly open terrain, which means they can't hide. If it took them two days they must be shitty hunters. I dont' know if she ate it. I'm highly doubting they did. Especially the Giraffe.

They found plenty of goats in the two days they were hunting, but she was looking for a trophy goat. She also had to get a one-shot-kill or else the goat would have likely run off the cliff into the ocean.. from what did she say, 200 yards out? Sounds like some skill to me.

I hope they ate it as well, but I'm not going to assume she didn't.

As far as the giraffe, trophy hunters have done more to save African animals and their habitats in the last few decades than conservationists ever have..

And from what I've heard the meat usually ends up going to local villages.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQh-f1rBjx4

[dannno]

I think it's important to promote sustainable hunting practices, but the bigger problem is that the stage we are at now is people on the left portray hunters are horrible people even if they are eating the meat, feeding poor people and helping the animals and the environment 100 times more than the person yelling at them sitting on their couch eating fucking chicken fingers.

[Todd]

They found plenty of goats in the two days they were hunting, but she was looking for a trophy goat. She also had to get a one-shot-kill or else the goat would have likely run off the cliff into the ocean.. from what did she say, 200 yards out? Sounds like some skill to me.

I hope they ate it as well, but I'm not going to assume she didn't.

As far as the giraffe, trophy hunters have done more to save African animals and their habitats in the last few decades than conservationists ever have..

And from what I've heard the meat usually ends up going to local villages.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQh-f1rBjx4


I agree with most of that.

Most trophy hunters I know are douchebags. Like I said I have been a hunter in the past (had to stop for time and priority) and I've come across alot of them. I'm glad there are a few that help out.

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS_lQfrbPL4