Council reviews Aboriginal hunting rightsTRADITIONS: The Council of Grand Justices is to issue an interpretation within one month on whether laws limiting hunting and firearms infringe on Aboriginal rightsBy Wu Cheng-feng and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNAOral arguments began on Tuesday in a case that is to determine whether laws restricting hunting and firearms infringe on the constitutional rights of Aborigines. Aboriginal groups rally in front of the Judicial Yuan in Taipei on Tuesday after oral arguments were heard at the Council of Grand Justices to determine whether laws restricting hunting and firearms infringe on the constitutional rights of Aborigines. In Talum’s appeal to the Supreme Court in 2017, the judges decided to suspend the trial until the Council of Grand Justices issues an interpretation on whether the laws breach the constitutional rights of Aborigines. At the hearing, Ministry of the Interior representative Kung Wen-hsiang (宮文祥) said that homemade firearms are sufficient to protect the hunting rights of Aborigines. Homemade shotguns must be front-loading and therefore less efficient to better protect the rights of others, Kung said.

Source: Taipei Times March 12, 2021 15:56 UTC