Rights LobbyPosted on August 12, 2011 by U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance

By Rob Sexton, Vice President For Government Affairs

For many years,  the fight to prevent Pennsylvania sportsmen from having the same rights as sportsmen in 39 other states has been led by the Farm Bureau.  Which is ironic, of course, because their opposition means that they are actually asking the government to prevent their own members – farmers – from being able to decide how to use their own land. Read more

 
This from the NRA about Britan’s recent rash of riots in gun-free zones…

 By now you have seen the headlines and images of destruction: the rioting, looting, violent assaults, and arson.  London and other UK cities look like war zones and their citizens are afraid to venture out, because the danger is very real.  It’s a view of the temporary breakdown of society.  It is gut check time; a time when the concept of being able to defend oneself gives way to the stark reality that few viable options to do so exist. Read more

 Obama Justice Department Orders Gun Registration: Wayne LaPierre Denounced Action and Unveils NRA Lawsuit …
Watch here, Watch Now!

By Glen Wunderlich

This season’s brassica food plot is in the ground and with a little cooperation from Mother Nature, the wildlife is in store for some fine eating well into next year.  The seed blend from Ed Spinazzola (www.deerattraction.com) contains a mix of purple top turnips, dwarf Essex rape, biologic maximum and canola and provides essential nutrients to ease stress when winter hits hard.  This annual blend supplements perennial stands of legumes which are available throughout the year.  Often overlooked, however, are natural-occurring plants that can be useful for six, four and two-legged critters alike. Read more

VIDEO: Beau the Wonder Dog

Texas Congressman and GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul continues to champion constitutional rights. His latest endeavor is a bill that would abolish “gun-free zones,” ultimately permitting teachers to carry firearms on school grounds. Predictably, anti-gun groups are calling the legislation “extremist.”

CNS News reports, “H.R. 2613, the Citizens Protection Act of 2011, would repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 and remove all federally created criminal safety zones.”  More here…

 Just as it looked like the growing, recovered population of Western Great Lakes (WGL) gray wolves was going to be taken off the federally endangered species list and returned to state management, a new roadblock threatens long delayed delisting.  This time the hurdle is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) latest proposed Endangered Species Act (ESA) delisting rule inexplicably finding that there are now two separate wolf species roaming Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.  U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Director of Federal Affairs Bill Horn, who is a former Assistant Secretary of the Interior in charge of the FWS and ESA,  joined Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources’ Secretary Cathy Stepp at a press conference last week to challenge the FWS’s two species proposal. Read more