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Banks Pressured to Cut Off Hunting and Ranching in Push for Plant-Based Agenda
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Banks Pressured to Cut Off Hunting and Ranching in Push for Plant-Based Agenda

By Mark Chesnut | NRA Hunters Leadership Forum We reported recently how Citibank’s apparent reversal of its punitive policy of discriminating against companies in the firearm business was a big win for American hunters as well as all other lawful gun owners in the nation. The corporation’s announcement came amid a number of efforts at both the federal and state level to ban the practice of big financial institutions discriminating against certain industries they don’t consider to be politically correct. Now the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearm industry, is sounding the alarm on a move by animal rights groups to weaponize banks and other financial institutions against animal agriculture businesses. With those animal rights groups also d...
McCombie: Initiative 82 revives push to restrict hunting, override expert conservation
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McCombie: Initiative 82 revives push to restrict hunting, override expert conservation

By Brian McCombie | Commentary, NRA Hunters' Leadership Forum Colorado anti-hunters are making yet another push to wrest control of that state’s wildlife from wildlife professionals. This time, it is the recently proposed Ballot Initiative 82, the “Colorado Wildlife & Biodiversity Protection Act.” At its core, Initiative 82 would create an independent commission parallel to the current Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission. This independent commission would then draw up legal protections for unnamed “keystone species” and assess financial penalties for any violations of these protections. If approved by voters in the state’s 2026 election, $2.5 million in taxpayer dollars will fund this commission. It then will decide what exactly are the “keystone species,” though observers ...

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