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See, I think that is were I get into disagreements with a lot of those that see things like they always have been.
The common attitude as you put it @RVTECH is that folks like you, and trust me I'm one of them, have been doing this for a long time.
What your not calculating into the equation, is the last 8 years of new gun sales. Obama sure did one thing well, sell guns.
With that, the increased number of folks now utilizing the forest for recreational shooting is not what it was. It is a lot larger. Also highly uneducated.
Another miscalculation is tax revenue and allocations.
Some reason folks don't get how that works. Maybe because their mistrust of the government means they don't want to get involved and learn more.
Without exact numbers even I look silly talking about it.
However, I know enough to know that across the country agencies managing public lands don't get enough funds. They are so tight on funding they routinely have to lay off employees, put in for more funding the year after, hope they get it, then rehire.
Combine those two things and you have a problem.
This is a brainstorming thread. Nothing really has been decided within any agencies mindset on any of this.
A lot of what has been discussed by myself has been discussed however. So from that notion, I a recreational shooter, would rather have some input and get involved, than have no voice in the decision and let the governing agencies figure it out on their own.
The common attitude as you put it @RVTECH is that folks like you, and trust me I'm one of them, have been doing this for a long time.
What your not calculating into the equation, is the last 8 years of new gun sales. Obama sure did one thing well, sell guns.
With that, the increased number of folks now utilizing the forest for recreational shooting is not what it was. It is a lot larger. Also highly uneducated.
Another miscalculation is tax revenue and allocations.
Some reason folks don't get how that works. Maybe because their mistrust of the government means they don't want to get involved and learn more.
Without exact numbers even I look silly talking about it.
However, I know enough to know that across the country agencies managing public lands don't get enough funds. They are so tight on funding they routinely have to lay off employees, put in for more funding the year after, hope they get it, then rehire.
Combine those two things and you have a problem.
This is a brainstorming thread. Nothing really has been decided within any agencies mindset on any of this.
A lot of what has been discussed by myself has been discussed however. So from that notion, I a recreational shooter, would rather have some input and get involved, than have no voice in the decision and let the governing agencies figure it out on their own.