Senate Joins House in Overturning Administration’s School Hunting Program Cuts, Biden Says He’ll Sign It

From the CCRKBA . . . Only hours after the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms blasted the Biden administration’s attempt to eliminate funding for school hunter education and archery programs, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed bipartisan legislation to prevent the cuts, and now the White House has confirmed President Biden … Read more

Congress Needs to Act Now to Restore Funding to Schools With Hunting Safety Programs

Congress has no shortage of “must-do” chores on the list in the face of a potential government shutdown. Among those tasks is passing legislation to restore federal funding for hunter education and archery in the schools. Congress can tell President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona that their attempt to starve schools of these … Read more

Some Senators Waking Up to the Disaster That Is Cornyn’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Capitulation

[Kansas Senator Roger] Marshall and his colleagues further warn the rule will “circumvent the U.S. Congress” by working around passed and signed gun-control legislation with “administrative action,” according to the letter. “The administration has stated its intent to ‘move the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation.’ But Congress has … Read more

Cornyn’s Folly Redux: Biden Moves to Expand List of Individuals Who Will Need an FFL to Sell Their Guns

It should be more than obvious that the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that credulous GOP Senator John Cornyn shepherded into law along with Connecticut’s Chris Murphy was nothing but a stalking horse for expanding the federal government’s regulation of firearms. Since it was signed into law, the Biden Administration has interpreted the law’s language in … Read more

Senate Dems Up For Reelection Suddenly Find They’re Against The Gun Control Bill They Voted For Last Year

The Education Department confirmed in late July that the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, passed in 2022, allows it to block federal funding for archery, hunting and gun safety units in physical education classes. The legislation, supported by fifteen Republicans and all 50 Democrats, prohibits federal funding from going to programs that provide “training in the use of a dangerous weapon.” … Read more

Biden’s Cutoff of Funds to Schools With Hunting Programs Will Make Mental Health Problems Worse

The law of unintended consequences (presumably at least those of the Republican Senators), however, prevailed and now many sportsmen and women view the administration’s move [to cut off funding to schools with hunting and archery programs] as a backdoor attack on the nation’s hunting and recreational shooting traditions and heritage. Worse, many psychological health experts … Read more