If you are not a member of the NRA...

[DesertBull]

JOIN PLEASE!

 

 

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

 

As part of NRA’s continuing efforts to protect hunters from special interest groups seeking to eliminate the use of ammunition containing lead projectiles, attorneys for NRA filed paperwork in the United States District Court in Arizona on October 14, 2009 asking the Court to allow NRA to intervene and join in the lawsuit Center for Biological Diversity v. United States Bureau of Land Management et al (3:09-cv-08011-PCT-PGR). The court could rule on NRA’s intervention request as early as the end of this month.

 

The lawsuit, filed January 27, 2009 by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), alleges that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (BLM, FWS) are illegally mismanaging federal lands in Arizona because those agencies failed to consider the potential impact on local wildlife resulting from authorizing activities like off-road vehicle use and allowing livestock grazing. CBD’s lawsuit also claims that California condors in Arizona are becoming ill or dying as a result of eating lead in scavenged game shot by hunters using lead shot or bullets, and that BLM and FWS are violating the Endangered Species Act by allowing hunters to use of lead shot and bullets while hunting.

 

 

NRA has been at the forefront of debunking the so-called “science” behind the theory that lead bullets are responsible for condor illness. NRA most recently worked with experts, researchers, and attorneys in California to defeat proposed state hunting regulations based on the unproven condor/lead bullets link. That success was based in large part on meticulous scientific reports prepared by experts working with NRA that exposed the deficiencies in the science, showing the theoretical link to be rooted in “psuedo-science,” as one California Fish and Game Commissioner described it.

 

 

Because of NRA’s previous experience and expertise with this issue in other states, and because there is no guarantee that either BLM or FWS will vigorously challenge the unproven assertions CBD is making about lead-based ammunition, NRA is seeking to intervene in CBD’s lawsuit to protect its members’ interests.

 

 

NRA is especially interested in defending against CBD’s lawsuit because California condors were introduced to Arizona based in large part on express promises by FWS, among others, that the reintroduction of condors would not be allowed to impact hunting.

 

 

A copy of the Motion to Intervene, CBD’s Opposition, and NRA’s Reply Brief is posted at www.calgunlaws.com.

 

 

[GameHauler]

I wish those people would get a life

and become educated before wasting our money

 

Yes I'm a member

[DesertBull]

Just to summarize, the Center for Biological Diversity has filed suit in federal court to force the BLM and USFS to ban lead ammo and to restrict your access to public land.

[BeardownAZ]

These groups(Center for Biological Diversity, etc) will never stop! They would like people to become extinct they are so radical. Best money I spend each year is my NRA membership!

[Scottf]

Don't these people have anything better to do with there time? Always trying to make something out of nothing.

 

I was just telling a friend the other day, I didn't know how much longer we would be able to go hunting. Will my grand kids have a chance to hunt like I did? Its only through groups like the NRA that the grand kids have any chance at all, so if your not a member you should be! I might add,I'm a life member and have been for some time and at this years annual meetings I won a really nice shotgun too. Please join in and help in the fight, go to a friends of the NRA meeting. Its a good way to meet new friends and pick up new hunting stuff too.