Quote:Published July 28, 2023 6:50am EDT
Biden admin withholding key funding for schools with hunting, archery programs
Biden administration is 'leveling a direct attack on hunters’ ability to pass down hunting to the newest generations,' hunting expert tells Fox News
By Thomas Catenacci | Fox News

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EXCLUSIVE: The Biden administration is blocking key federal funding earmarked under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 for schools with hunting and archery programs.

According to federal guidance circulated among hunting education groups and shared with Fox News Digital, the Department of Education determined that, under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) passed last year, school hunting and archery classes are precluded from receiving federal funding. The interpretation could impact millions of American children enrolled in such programs...

...In June 2022, the BSCA was passed with large majorities in the House and Senate before President Biden signed it into law. The push to pass the bill — which broadly seeks to promote "safer, more inclusive and positive" school environments, according to the Education Department — came after mass shootings at a grocery market in Buffalo, New York, and a school in Uvalde, Texas.

The legislation included an amendment to an ESEA subsection listing prohibited uses for federal school funding. That amendment prohibits ESEA funds from helping provide any person with a dangerous weapon or to provide "training in the use of a dangerous weapon."

However, in a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona earlier this month, Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., expressed concern that the agency is misinterpreting the provision which they said was included in the BSCA last year to withhold education funds for programs training school resource officers, not for hunting and archery classes. School resource officer training was funded under a separate provision.

"We were alarmed to learn recently that the Department of Education has misinterpreted the BCSA to require the defending of certain longstanding educational and enrichment programs — specifically, archery and hunter education classes — for thousands of children, who rely on these programs to develop life skills, learn firearm safety and build self-esteem," Cornyn and Tillis wrote to Cardona.

"The Department mistakenly believes that the BSCA precludes funding these enrichment programs," they continued. "Such an interpretation contradicts congressional intent and the text of the BSCA."...

..."At best, the department’s policy appears to be singularly geared to ensure hunters are less safe when handling firearms or bows and, at worst, are leveling a direct attack on hunters’ ability to pass down hunting to the newest generations," he continued. "SCI and our membership will be eagerly awaiting the Education Department’s response to the letter from Senators Cornyn and Tillis, and we won’t hesitate to take further action to protect hunters’ rights."

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just YIKES ... it's simply one more of too many attempts to ridicule/amend/eradicate 2A...

they're beggin' for nuts zongo to go rogue ... and trust me, there's so many more out there that would start before nuts...

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(07-28-2023 07:24 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  just YIKES ... it's simply one more of too many attempts to ridicule/amend/eradicate 2A...

they're beggin' for nuts zongo to go rogue ... and trust me, there's so many more out there that would start before nuts...

Most of them are former military.

(07-28-2023 07:28 AM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(07-28-2023 07:24 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  just YIKES ... it's simply one more of too many attempts to ridicule/amend/eradicate 2A...

they're beggin' for nuts zongo to go rogue ... and trust me, there's so many more out there that would start before nuts...

Most of them are former military.

it's coming...

People you have a choice

Prog filth or not prog filth

It
Is
That
Simple

(07-28-2023 07:40 AM)shere khan Wrote:  People you have a choice

Prog filth or not prog filth

It
Is
That
Simple

XACLY!

you know where I think it's headed due to muh mail-it-inns ... I don't see an out w/o squashing that via amending 10A ... numbers lives matter

They know their time in power may be relatively short so they are pulling out all the stops while they can. Red states should separate themselves from the Department of Education and wave a big fat middle finger. It's yet another federal bureaucracy that needs to be done away with.

(07-28-2023 07:24 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Additional related articles on attacks on hunting and religion/prayer:

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I opened that hunting article and did not get what I expected. They just want to ban lead shot on 8 national wildlife refuges. The NWR I hunt on in west Tennessee banned lead shot decades ago, back when I was a kid. I don’t see this as a big attack against hunting. Frankly, I am surprised that isn’t already a national law.

(07-28-2023 09:23 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  They know their time in power may be relatively short so they are pulling out all the stops while they can. Red states should separate themselves from the Department of Education and wave a big fat middle finger. It's yet another federal bureaucracy that needs to be done away with.

w/o question, the DoE has been the worst in design since muh Great Society … it’s been sad to witness … it’s like going all-in preflop with unsuited 7-2 (yeah, another poker analogy) … broheim!

(07-28-2023 09:25 AM)PlainTiger Wrote:  

(07-28-2023 07:24 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Additional related articles on attacks on hunting and religion/prayer:

Quote:Biden admin takes aim at hunters in latest regulation: 'Preventing Americans from hunting'
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-a...om-hunting

Quote:Education Department warns against schools encouraging private prayer, other religious activity
Biden administration updates guidance on prayer in public schools

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/educati...s-activity

I opened that hunting article and did not get what I expected. They just want to ban lead shot on 8 national wildlife refuges. The NWR I hunt on in west Tennessee banned lead shot decades ago, back when I was a kid. I don’t see this as a big attack against hunting. Frankly, I am surprised that isn’t already a national law.

Don't be decieved this is all they're after:

'In 2021, the Center for Biological Diversity — an influential environmental group with assets exceeding $40 million that advocates for stringent federal wildlife protections — sued the federal government over a Trump administration rule expanding hunting and fishing on 2.3 million acres across 147 wildlife refuges and national fish hatcheries.

Instead of defending the rule, the Biden administration asked the court to delay proceedings in the case in February 2022, and in November it agreed to a settlement with the group that stipulated the government would take wide-ranging steps to protect wildlife "harmed by expanded hunting and fishing" on national wildlife refuges.'

(07-28-2023 09:25 AM)PlainTiger Wrote:  

(07-28-2023 07:24 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Additional related articles on attacks on hunting and religion/prayer:

Quote:Biden admin takes aim at hunters in latest regulation: 'Preventing Americans from hunting'
Biden admin's action will 'create substantial cost barriers' for hunters across the country, expert tells Fox News Digital

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-a...om-hunting

Quote:Education Department warns against schools encouraging private prayer, other religious activity
Biden administration updates guidance on prayer in public schools

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/educati...s-activity

I opened that hunting article and did not get what I expected. They just want to ban lead shot on 8 national wildlife refuges. The NWR I hunt on in west Tennessee banned lead shot decades ago, back when I was a kid. I don’t see this as a big attack against hunting. Frankly, I am surprised that isn’t already a national law.

I only read about half of that one, but I added these two links to show the Biden admin is making a concerted effort to put all types of restrictions on pursuits that are embraced by a lot of people on the right.

It's basically a culture war, and I think this is just the beginning, not the end. There are other examples, too. I just provided a couple of links that were embedded in the original article.

I can't imagine how far down the road they will get if the Dems win again in 2024.

This is just another step in eradicating the people's ability to feed themselves. First the chip, then the inability to feed your family and be reliant on the government and not yourself. This administration is so immoral, corrupt, illegal, etc. anything that is evil is okay with them.

Before long they'll try to ban bow and arrows because with them you don't need a rubber band like you do with sling shots. If an Indian could fashion a killing and feeding machine with things in nature how much better than a slingshot. When you can find a botanical that can sling a rock then they'll ban that in the future.

(07-28-2023 07:24 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  just YIKES ... it's simply one more of too many attempts to ridicule/amend/eradicate 2A...

they're beggin' for nuts zongo to go rogue ... and trust me, there's so many more out there that would start before nuts...

It'll never happen, we're too law abiding and the Demons know it. However, if things were turned around we know that the Demons don't shirk violence of any type. If they're worried about dangerous weapons then they should start with skateboards. Many people have been severly injured by skateboard wielding communists at protests.