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By Larry Keane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Joe Biden is determined to decimate the notion that responsible gun owners should be able to responsibly teach the next generation of outdoorsmen and women recreational target shooting. His latest scheme is to shutter 98.9 percent<\/a><\/strong> of the Sonoran Desert National Monument to recreational target shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of the Interior\u2019s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized a resource management plan revision<\/a><\/strong> that closes off all but 1.1 percent of the nearly half-a-million-acre national monument. BLM announced earlier this year that it planned to close all but 5,295 acres to recreational target shooters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move is the latest snub to outdoorsmen and women, as much as it is a rejection and reversal of gains made by the outdoor recreation community during the Trump administration. In 2018, the Trump administration published a plan to open 90 percent \u2013 or 435,700 acres \u2013 of the Sonoran Desert National Monument to recreational target shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government Taketh Away<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In other words, the Biden administration not only reversed the gains made for recreational target shooters and outdoorsmen and women, they took away even more opportunities that existed before President Donald Trump ended the previous restrictions to target shooting on those public lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not the first time President Biden has taken a swipe at outdoorsmen and women who want to pass along their hunting heritage and safe firearm handling skills to the next generation. In July 2023, the Biden administration\u2019s Department of Education shared guidance to schools to strip funding for hunter education and scholastic archery programs<\/strong><\/a> in public schools. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona claimed it was necessary because of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, a wildly off-base claim that earned the rebuke<\/strong><\/a> of NSSF, conservation groups and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reaction was swift. Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of U.S. Rep. Mark Green\u2019s (R-Tenn.)\u00a0Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to amend the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to clarify school programs \u201ctraining students in archery, hunting, or other shooting sports\u201d are eligible for funding. The lopsided vote of 424-1 in the House of Representatives and a unanimous agreement in the U.S. Senate\u00a0sent the message<\/a><\/strong>. President Biden was off target in attacking youth hunter education. He was forced to\u00a0sign the veto-proof legislation<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, the Biden administration is claiming the decision to shutter even more land to recreational target shooting is needed because of a court settlement the Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to in April 2022, stemming from a 2019 lawsuit by a coalition of special-interest environmental groups that challenged the Trump administration\u2019s opening of the Sonoran Desert National Monument to allow more access to public lands recreational shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe BLM worked to find a safe balance between various recreational uses of public lands while protecting objects of historic or scientific interest in the national monument,\u201d said Phoenix District Manager Leon Thomas in a press release statement<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cWe continue to explore ways to enhance opportunities for recreational shooting on other public lands in Arizona, such as our new shooting sports sites in the metro Phoenix area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s at least a 60-mile drive. NSSF reports<\/strong><\/a> show that 21 percent of recreational target shooters almost exclusively use public land to practice and 43 percent noted that access constraints are their topmost concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Court Made Me Do It<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s little evidence that the Biden administration\u2019s DOJ and BLM fought hard to protect the ability of outdoorsmen and women to access the full spectrum of public lands in the Sonoran Desert National Monument. The inverse is true. Federal agencies, including the Interior Department\u2019s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), have engaged in \u201csue-and-settle<\/a><\/strong>\u201d schemes with special-interest antigun and anti-hunting groups to advance an extremist agenda. It\u2019s a way for bureaucrats to throw their hands in the air and claim they were forced into these tilted decisions by the courts and had no other recourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except that\u2019s not true. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce blasted \u201csue-and-settle\u201d schemes as a means of regulating behind closed doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Sue and Settle\u2019 refers to when a federal agency agrees to a settlement agreement, in a lawsuit from special interest groups, to create priorities and rules outside of the normal rulemaking process,\u201d the U.S. Chamber wrote in 2018<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cThe agency intentionally relinquishes statutory discretion by committing to timelines and priorities that often realign agency duties. These settlement agreements are negotiated behind closed doors with no participation from the public or affected parties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The practice is a way for government bureaucrats to work hand-in-glove with special-interests to not only skirt the regular process but to force policies that disenfranchise those who oppose them. In the case of the Sonoran Desert National Monument, that\u2019s leaving recreational target shooters and outdoorsmen and women out in the cold while catering the environmental groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NSSF supports an answer<\/a><\/strong> to some of these problems that have already been introduced in Congress. Rep. Blake Moore (R-Utah) introduced the H.R. 1614<\/a><\/strong>, the Range Access Act<\/a><\/strong>, that would require the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and BLM to have at least one qualifying recreational shooting range in each district. That doesn\u2019t solve all the issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration continues to use the \u201cwhole-of-government<\/a><\/strong>\u201d to attack the firearm industry and those who value their Second Amendment rights. That includes the DOJ, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Commerce Department\u2019s Bureau of Industry Security (BIS) and the Interior Department\u2019s USFWS and BLM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Biden administration, the announcement to block off 98.9 percent of the Sonoran Desert National Monument has the added effect of robbing those who value their traditions of responsible gun ownership from being able to access public lands to teach and pass along that ethos to the next generation of gun owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not just an attack on Trump administration policies. This is an attack on America\u2019s heritage of responsible firearm ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larry Keane\u00a0<\/strong>is Senior Vice President of Government and Public Affairs and General Counsel for the\u00a0National Shooting Sports Foundation<\/a>, the firearms industry trade association.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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