By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff
There are a bunch of hunting-related items in the pipeline for the Maine Legislature.
In fact, there are actually 30 separate bills remaining on the rolls this year that are related to hunting.
hoping to leave the woods with a dead bear. three shells. reporter: newton cook is one of those hunters and this is the rifle he is packing. he says the controversial bear hunt is simply necessary. the state estimates about 3,000 black bear now roam parts of florida, rebounding from just 300 bear back in the 70s. the week-long bear hunt ends once 230 bear 320 bear are killed. three years ago florida s back bear were still on the state s endangered species list. 32 states allow hunting bear. tomorrow tomorrow becomes number 33. they are too crowded with bears. the way to reduce that crowded situation is to use the natural way, the one that has been around for tens of thousands of years, manhunting bears. reporter: over past couple years there have been four series bear versus human conflicts in florida neighborhoods and bear
it s a smart way to go. welcome back to the special edition of hannity. fox news correspondent has been closely following this story since it broke and he uncovers who knew what, when and where these guns end up once they crossed into mexico. we weren t given guns to people who were hunting bear. we were giving guns to people who were killing other humans. that is insane. in conceivable. you would never think that because atf does not do that. if i had known that that was, in fact, occurring, i would have called atf headquarters. most agents didn t know about fast and furious. those who did followed orders. it was related to me that they didn t have to explain anything to me. i was to do as i was told. agent john dodson blew the
what, if any, overseas connections he might have. joining us also fran townsend. so, brian, this was an fbi sting. what do we know about how it went down? it appears to have been a very elaborate string. authorities were tracking mr. ferdaus for the better part of this year. they do indicate that he began some of his various plotting last year but they have tracked him at least since january. they have used undercover agents and at least one cooperating witness who started taping conversations with him earlier this year. so this was a fairly elaborate sting operation that lasted until today when they actually sold him what he thought was some explosive material. they said not a lot of it was the real thing because they were obviously trying to trick him, but it lasted until today when they actually took him down. did he ever have any connection to real people at al qaeda? they say the federal authorities say he did not. there is no indication according to a law enforcem