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Good news is: there were 11.4 million hunters in 2016. Bad news is: there were 12.5 in 2006

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A report compiled twice per decade by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows increases nationally in wildlife watching and fishing, but declines in the number of hunters.

The survey, the 13th conducted by the USFWS since 1955, showed marked increases in the numbers of Americans engaged in observing and photographing wildlife and in fishing when compared to the 2011 data, but over the past decade, the number of hunters has dropped by more than 1 million– even as the general population is on the rise.

More in my column at Guns.com.

Congress to Look at Limiting Ammo Sales

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Ten days after the horrible killing spree of orange haired wannabe lunatic James Holmes in Aurora Colorado, the first gun control bill has been thrown into the ring. The subject of the bill: online ammunition sales.

Holmes, the holder of a master’s degree and until a few months prior a medical student, legally purchased a number of firearms locally as well as 6000 rounds of ammunition via the internet.

The sponsors of the bill, Democratic Senators Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Representative Carolyn McCarthy of New York today announced what they call the Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act. The bill, if approved and signed by the President, will require ammunition sellers to have an FFL, and buyers to present a valid State-issued ID at purchase. This actually is not revolutionary and is often done already voluntarily. However, what would be new is a mandate to track all purchases and report the sale of more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition by a single buyer in a five-day period. This of course opens the back door to a central gun-database of legal gun owners, something long fought against by Second Amendment advocates since 1775.

Read more in my column at Firearms Talk.com