Post by: huntrights on June 18, 2014, 11:50:05 AM
ACTION ALERT from the National Shooting Sports Foundation – “Hunting on Public Lands at Risk”
http://www.nssfblog.com/hunting-on-public-lands-at-risk/
Excerpt from the article:
“…Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), along with other anti-hunting groups and individuals, filed a petition with the Interior Department demanding rules against hunting with traditional ammunition on public lands - one-fifth of the total land area in the U.S….”.
Please read the ACTION ALERT and take ACTION by calling the DOI officials listed in the NSSF article.
Please pass this on to others that care about our rights to hunt, fish and use public lands. Encourage them to take action as well.
Thank you.
Post by: csaaphill on June 20, 2014, 09:47:53 PM
Post by: huntrights on June 24, 2014, 12:15:21 PM
Just a quick note on making the phone calls. You will likely only be able to leave a message, but that is fine; at least they heard from you. It doesn't take much time to make the calls.
This number is missing a "0" at the end:
"FWS Public Affairs: 703-358-222"
It should be: FWS Public Affairs: 703-358-2220
NSSF has been contacted about the missing "0".
Post by: Stein on June 24, 2014, 12:17:54 PM
Post by: bearpaw on June 24, 2014, 12:30:35 PM
Call Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today at 202-208-3181 and tell her to reject this scientifically baseless petition from HSUS to ban traditional ammunition. Let the Department of the Interior know that requiring the use of alternative, non-lead ammunition, is nothing more than a back-door way to ban hunting by raising the price of participating in an American sporting tradition.
Make sure to tell them:
•There is no sound science to support banning traditional ammunition used by hunters for centuries.
•Don’t allow the Humane Society and other anti-hunting groups to advance their end game of banning all hunting through the tactic of by banning the use of traditional ammunition for hunting on public lands.
•There is absolutely no adverse wildlife population impact that warrants such a drastic measure.
•There is no evidence that consuming game taken with traditional ammunition poses a human health hazard to hunters and their family.
•Hunters are the original conservationists. Excise taxes (11%) raised from the sale of traditional ammunition the HSUS and others unfairly demonize is a primary source of wildlife conservation funding. Banning traditional ammunition will harm the very animals HSUS claims to care about.
Call your officials today:
DOI Office of Communications: 202-208-6416
DOI Executive Office: 202-208-3181
FWS Public Affairs: 703-358-2220