News Category: Federal Policy

On September 16, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, along with fellow NGO signatories on the Federal Lands Hunting, Fishing and Shooting Sports Roundtable (Roundtable) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), submitted comments in response to the USFS proposed directive for Closures of National Forest System Lands to Hunting, Fishing, or Recreational Shooting…

On September 14, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) and roughly 30 partners from the sporting-conservation community sent a letter to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) thanking the Bureau for their efforts to improve opportunities for recreational shooters. The letter specifically complimented the work of BLM in Arizona to provide improvements and management of informal,…

On January 3, Representative Jeff Duncan (SC), an outgoing Co-Chair of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC) reintroduced the Hearing Protection Act (HPA) as H.R. 155. Among the many CSC members signed on as original cosponsors is Representative Austin Scott (GA), an incoming Co-Chair of the CSC in the 116th Congress. The overall intent of the…

On February 14, the Hearing Protection Act reached a major milestone, as the 100th cosponsor was added to the House version of the bill. The Hearing Protection Act (H.R. 367/S. 59) will provide America’s sportsmen and women with easier access to firearm suppressors by removing them from the scope of the National Firearms Act (NFA), replacing…