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Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colorado, has worked to help peacefully resolve issues between the Forest Service and gun owners.

Udall works to bring Pittman-Robertson funds to ranges

(GunReports.com) -- Hunters, recreational shooters and other gun owners pay an 11 percent excise tax, established under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937, on ammunition and other hunting and shooting equipment. It generates more than $700 million each year that is supposed to establish, restore and protect wildlife habitats and provide for hunter education. That means gun owners pay a tremendous amount toward maintaining and improving public lands, such as our national forests and properties governed by the Bureau of Land Management.

Bikers, hikers and other enjoy these lands and benefit from taxes that are paid only by shooters.

So how does the federal government repay the gun owners? By shutting down shooting ranges in national forests with every excuse they can find. Both forest shooting ranges near Colorado Springs have been closed for years. Federal authorities claim the ranges are dangerous, even though they are statistically far safer than all other recreation facilities in the forests. They claim the ranges are poorly maintained, which results from willful neglect by the National Forest Service. When asked to reopen and provide reasonable oversight and maintenance of the ranges, National Forest Service officials claim poverty.

Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colorado, has worked to help peacefully resolve issues between the Forest Service and gun owners. In June he introduced SB1249, known as the Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act. Udall hopes the bill will get a hearing in the Environment and Public Works Committee. A companion bill was introduced in the House of Representatives on Friday.

The Udall-inspired bills would amend the Pittman-Robertson Act to allow proceeds of the tax to fund up to 90 percent of expanding or constructing shooting ranges on federal or nonfederal land.

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I'm supportive of this idea. In fact, I think we should include other users of national forests and other lands in some kind of licensing scheme which would also put money into the Pittman-Robertson monies for wildlife and sports management. Hikers, picnicers, shroom hunters, bird watchers, beachgoers - they should all be paying for access with the funds going to pay for maintenance and management of the facilities and resources they use. For someone who wants to hike / bike in the forest most weekends, a user tag that costs the same as a general small-game license shouldn't be too high. It would help maintain their trails.

Comment by: david b | September 29, 2011

I agree David; however, I see potential for the unintended consequence that with additional sources of revenue from hikers, botanists, and hippie communes, the importance of our duck stamps decreases and conceivably becomes replaceable.

Comment by: PVB | September 29, 2011

P V B - gosh, I sure hope not. That would be terrible.

Comment by: david b | September 29, 2011

Yes it would...

Comment by: PVB | September 30, 2011