(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s administration, in collaboration with radical environmentalist groups, is expected to publish regulations that would restrict the viability of fishing and hunting.
Specifically, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to unveil its new hunting and fishing guidelines that would radically restrict the types of hunting equipment that could be used on public lands, Fox News reported.
Todd Adkins , the vice president of government affairs for the Sportsmen’s Alliance, a pro-hunting group, said the regulation will serve only to bar the poor from hunting or fishing.
“Raising the cost of hunting, raising the cost of fishing and raising the cost of our crowd doing their thing is objective number one, without a doubt, because they know if you make it more expensive, less people will do it,” Adkins said.
Luke Hilgemann, Executive Director of the International Order of T. Roosevelt, which fights for hunting and fishing rights across the nation, noted that the administration is targeting common hunting equipment with their red tape, making hunting impossible for many people.
“What we see here with the rule coming out of the Biden administration is the potential to close millions of acres of public lands that had been opened under the Trump administration to hunting and fishing,” Hilgemann noted.
“They’re doing this basically by banning the most common forms of hunting cartridges that most people buy off the shelf and requiring that no lead cartridges be used on any federal lands.”
Making matters worse, Hilgemann said, people will be forced to buy equipment that is not readily available.
Further, he suggested, the Biden administration is acting based upon its environmentalist preferences and calling it science.
“We think this is a totally misguided policy that’s not based in science,” he added. “It’s going to put up ‘No hunting signs’ on millions of acres of lands and kick people off of the waterways that they traditionally fish with their kids and grandkids.”
