Introduction Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) are four-digit identifiers used by payment networks to broadly categorize a merchant’s line of business (e.g., grocery, hardware, sporting goods). Recently, the creation and contemplated use of a firearm-specific MCC has raised concerns that financial institutions could flag, track, and/or halt lawful purchases by hunters and recreational shooters. To protect …
Why It Matters: The Second Amendment and sportsmen’s issues are often very much intertwined. All types of firearms are in commonplace usage for hunting and recreational shooting sports; thus, anti-firearms legislation is often a trojan horse attack on our sporting heritage. Additionally, the American System of Conservation Funding (ASCF) relies on revenue from firearms and …
California’s AB 1127: A Backdoor Striker-Fired Handgun Ban Read More »
The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) announced today that Kaylee Mortensen has joined the organization as the Southwestern States Coordinator. In this role, Kaylee will work closely with the state legislative sportsmen’s caucuses under the National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses (NASC) and members of the Governors Sportsmen’s Caucus (GSC) in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah …
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Why It Matters: Seemingly innocuous bills can sometimes carry significant unexpected consequences for law-abiding sportsmen and women. Currently, California Assembly Bill 519, which has moved through both chambers with wide support, is one such example that has some members of the sporting-conservation community concerned. On the surface, the bill reads as an anti-puppy mill effort, …
Why It Matters: Sportsmen’s issues are fundamentally intertwined with firearms issues, given that firearms of every kind are routinely used in hunting and recreational shooting. Additionally, approximately 80% of Pittman-Robertson funding comes from firearms and ammunition purchases made by recreational shooters. While many hunters may wish to stay out of gun politics, the fact remains …
Guns in the Golden State, Again: Two Bad Bills Bite the Dust Read More »
Why It Matters: California is a beautiful western state with a long tradition of rugged individualism, including the most ancient human pursuit of fish and game. Our hunting traditions go back hundreds of years in California, a state many sportsmen and women often associate with bad ideas these days – many of which have now …
Golden State Follies: Bear Bill Backburnered for the Year Read More »
Why It Matters: Legislation seeking to restrict the Second Amendment is often eventually used as a vector of attack for hunting-related issues, just as restrictions on hunting are often used as a vector of attack against Second Amendment rights. Our issues are fundamentally intertwined given that firearms of every kind are routinely used in hunting, …
It Takes a Team: The Line Has Been Held in California Read More »
Why It Matters: Legislation seeking to restrict the Second Amendment is often eventually used as a vector of attack for hunting-related issues, just as restrictions on hunting are often used as a vector of attack against Second Amendment rights. Our issues are fundamentally intertwined given that firearms of every kind are routinely used in hunting, …
Why It Matters: Legislators, particularly those with a passion for our shared outdoor pursuits, are typically flooded each day with opposition to and attacks against the things they do. Events that bring sportsmen and women together with legislators to celebrate our hunting, fishing, trapping, and shooting traditions in a positive environment are an effective way …
Why It Matters: The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is the name given to Earth’s largest ocean plastic accumulation zone, the eastern half of which swirls around off the coast of California, held permanently in place by the Pacific Ocean currents known as the North Pacific Tropical Gyre. This Eastern Garbage Patch covers an area twice …
Fisheries Conservation Legislation Expected to Advance in California Read More »
