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As of yesterday, Californians will no longer be able hunt exotic animals from the comfort of their own homes.

In a scathing legislative ban, California lawmakers targeted Live-shot.com and fired the kill shot for anybody desiring to their hunting online. That shot goes for anybody wanting to set up a similar site within state lines, too.

Live-shot.com is a website that enables point-and-click remote firing of rifles via the Internet. The animals offered up for slaughter are Aoudad, Corsican and Mouflon sheep, Blackbuck Antelope, and wild boar. Paper targets are also available for those with lesser intestinal fortitude (i.e., wimps).

The services require a $15 membership fee and each 20-minute hunting session is about $6. All animals killed can be stuffed and/or processed for meat (and then stuffed), or donated to a charity of the member's choice.

California senators find the idea, to put it mildly, repulsive, and voted 25-6 to outlaw it in the state.

Senator Debra Bowen, the bill's author, said, "it's an over-the-top, pay-per-view video game using live animals for target practice that ought to be banned from coast-to-coast."

She went on to say that there was nothing "sporting" about people shooting animals in their pajamas (insert Groucho Marx joke here).

Quadriplegic Dale Hagberg of Ligonier, Indiana disagrees.

"They don't realize who the site is for. It's designed to help people like me, not just lazy hunters," said Hagberg.

But lazy hunters like it too. They just can't like it in California.

Jason L. Miller is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.