Sen. Cramer, Colleagues Side with Sportsmen, Urge Biden Administration Against Banning Lead Ammo, Tackle on Public Lands

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U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) in urging Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Martha Williams not to cave in to activists' calls to restrict the use of lead ammunition and tackle on public lands.

"Policies or actions that reduce or limit sportsmen activities necessarily implicate wildlife conservation programs by affecting state agencies' revenue. Such policies or actions also handcuff wildlife managers by removing a critical conservation tool while needlessly alienating one of our original conservationists, sportsmen. Phasing-out lead ammo and tackle on wildlife refuges would disproportionately affect lower-income households and those that depend on hunting and fishing for their subsistence as lead alternatives are often more expensive. The impact of such a policy would be devastating to the sportsmen heritage in our states," wrote the senators.

Joining Senators Cramer and Daines are Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Braun (R-IN), Richard Burr (R-NC), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), John Hoeven (R-ND), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), John Kennedy (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Rick Scott (R-FL), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Pat Toomey (R-PA), John Barrasso (R-WY), and Tom Cotton (R-AR).

Click here to read the letter.

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