Trump Signs Hunting Order Protecting Traditional Ammunition, Opening Public Lands
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Updated · PR Newswire · Sep 17
Trump Signs Hunting Order Protecting Traditional Ammunition, Opening Public Lands
3 articles · Updated · PR Newswire · Sep 17
Summary
Trump signed a "Reinvigorating America's Hunting Heritage" executive order that protects traditional ammunition and fishing tackle while expanding hunting access on federal lands.
The order adopts an "open until closed" approach for public lands, encourages cooperative access through private landowners, and urges states to widen Sunday hunting where restrictions remain.
It also opens hunting in designated monuments and backs volunteer efforts to manage invasive and overabundant species, extending a broader rollback of Biden-era land and access limits previewed earlier Thursday.
NSSF, which said it helped craft the policy with the White House and Interior, tied the move to conservation funding: firearm and ammunition excise taxes supplied more than $804 million of the $1.3 billion sent to states in February 2026.
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