"On November 1, 2007, NRA launched a new Website--www.nrahuntersrights.org.
Visitation has been strong and feedback on it positive, but there is one really disturbing thing about the site--the fact that there is a need for it.
The number of licensed hunters has dropped steadily, from 14.1 million in 1996 to 12.5 million today. Gleeful anti-hunters claim that hunting is dying, and no longer of interest to Americans.
But it isn't lack of interest in hunting that's causing the decline.
It's overly complex, nit-picking regulations that turn inadvertent mistakes into criminal offenses. It's too much difficulty in finding a place to hunt, or even to sight-in your rifle. It's overzealous law enforcement. It's archaic minimum-age hurdles that must be cleared before youngsters can hunt. And it's radical anti-hunting groups--and their sympathetic media--that succeed in closing down hunting seasons, even when they are overwhelmingly justified by the science of wildlife management."
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