The National Shooting Sports Foundation reports U.S. Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) have filed an historic package of sportsmen’s bills as an amendment to the 2012 Farm Bill that includes the Hunting, Fishing and Recreational Shooting Protection Act, which would clarify that ammunition is excluded from regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Comprising 16 separate pieces of legislation, the package includes the majority of the firearms and ammunition industry’s legislative priorities for the 112th Congress. A similar but less extensive package of bills–the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (H.R. 4089)–was passed by the House in April by a bipartisan vote of 276 to 146. Read more details here.
