The Gun Buying Boom Means Huge Windfalls for Wildlife, State Agencies

The Gun Buying Boom Means Huge Windfalls for Wildlife, State Agencies

By Larry Keane

State wildlife agencies are facing something many haven’t seen for years, even decades. Their seeing flush budgets. Excise taxes paid by firearm and ammunition makers to the Wildlife Restoration Fund, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife (USFWS), is nearly a half-billion dollars at just halfway through the fiscal year.

That’s a 64 percent increase over the same time last year, all due to more guns and ammunition being manufactured and the law-abiding citizens who purchase them.

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