NSSF Legislative Alert: on the Sportsmen’s Act

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Got this from the NSSF:

Call Your U.S Senators Today and Urge Them to VOTE YES

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Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard Today 202-224-3121

NSSF urgently encourages all firearms owners, hunters and sportsmen to immediately call their U.S. Senators and urge them to VOTE YES on the Sportsmen’s Act (Senate Amendment 2232).

Sponsored by the bipartisan senate co-chairs of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) and filed as an amendment to the 2012 Farm Bill (S.3240), the Sportsmen’s Act is the most important single piece of pro-sportsmen legislation in a generation. This historic legislation includes the firearms industry’s top legislative priority, the Hunting, Fishing and Recreational Shooting Protection Act (S.838), which would clarify that ammunition is excluded from regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

Anti-hunting groups led by the Center for Biological Diversity are suing the EPA to force a ban on traditional ammunition made with lead components that would devastate hunting and shooting sports participation, drive up ammunition prices on average by almost 200 percent and dry up conservation funding.

This historic, bipartisan legislation is strongly supported by the National Shooting Sports Foundation and over 40 of the nation’s leading sportsmen and conservation groups like the NRA, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, Duck Unlimited, U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance and the Boone and Crockett Club.

The Sportsmen’s Act is a package of 16 separate bills including the majority of sportsmen’s legislative priorities in this Congress. (See below for an overview of the components of the bill.) A similar but less extensive package of bills–the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (H.R. 4089)–was passed by the House in April by a bipartisan vote of 276 to 146. Passage of this unprecedented pro-sportsmen’s legislationwill promote, protect and preserve our nation’s hunting, shooting and conservation heritage for generations to come.

But you must act now! The Senate will take up the Farm Bill this week. Anti-hunting forces are aggressively trying to block the Senate from even considering the Sportsmen’s Act. Call your U.S. Senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to support the bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act. Help save our hunting and shooting sports heritage.