Posted May 21, 2015 10:59 am by Comments

By Justin Stakes

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Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation
Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation
Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation

Washington, DC -(Ammoland.com)- Yesterday, House Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC) leadership introduced the Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act of 2015 (H.R. 2406), aimed “to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing, and shooting, and for other purposes.”

Introduced by CSC Co-Chairs Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) and Tim Walz (D-MN), and CSC Vice-Chairs Congressmen Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Gene Green (D-TX), the SHARE Act is a bipartisan package with 13 pro-sportsmen’s provisions.

H.R. 2406 will: (1) make the existing exemption from EPA regulation for lead shot permanent, and adds lead tackle as an exempted product; (2) extend and increase states’ authority to allocate Pittman-Robertson funding for shooting ranges on public lands; (3) authorize the lawful possession of firearms pursuant to state law on water resource development project lands managed by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; (4) permanently establish the Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council Advisory Committee to advise the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture on wildlife and habitat conservation, hunting, and recreational shooting; (5) require Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) lands to be open for hunting, fishing, and recreational shooting unless specifically closed; …read more

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