Floriano Massardi, the councilor of the Lega in the Lombardy Region who rewrote the hunting law thanks to his amendments, he revealed the threats which has been undergoing on the web since the legislation was approved. Here are his words: “On my page someone asks to open the hunt for my person. However, there are few who really believe in these statements written on the internet pages of various animal welfare associations, of private citizens as well as mine.
I deeply respect everyone and everyone's opinion. I will not go into the merits of what was written to me on Messenger, that however it is very heavy and left me astonished. Many inaccuracies have been written. The seventeen-year-olds who will take the hunting license, however, will be able to take up the rifle and go hunting only once they have received the gun license. And this will happen after the coming of age.
No one has ever said that minors will be able to practice hunting before the age of 18. Certainly no one will be sent to shoot in the woods and mountains ahead of time. In the Lombard plain, foxes are hunted until January 31st. In the alpine areas until December 31st. We have simply equated the zones. I have simplified a law governing a legal activity. I have really read all the colors ".