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Guaranteed Ways to Lose Access To Public Lands

Guaranteed Ways to Lose Access To Public Lands

 

The outdoor industry has been making a big push over the past two years to assure access to the country’s public lands. It has largely been effective, with some states having gone so far as to pass laws guaranteeing access rights to hunters, shooters, and anglers.

But there’s also a largely unrecognized push-back to block that access in what has been recognized as the Achilles heel of the access movement: the fact that some recreational shooters are, essentially, oblivious to the fact that their refusal to police themselves is giving anti-gun advocates the ammunition they need to be completely reasonable in denying that access.

Read more at the Outdoor Wire.