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Calendar No. 18
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session J SENATE 116-8
TARGET PRACTICE AND MARKSMANSHIP TRAINING
SUPPORT ACT
MARCH 14, 2019.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Environmental and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 94]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 94) to amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife
Restoration Act to facilitate the establishment of additional or ex-
panded public target ranges in certain States, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
Pittman-Robertson funds are derived from an 11 percent user
pays excise tax on firearms and ammunition, and the resulting re-
ceipts are set aside from the general treasury for firearms safety
training programs and wildlife conservation. Almost $11 billion has
been raised for the fund since President Franklin D. Roosevelt
signed Pittman-Robertson into law in 1937, making target shooters
and hunters amongst the largest financial supporters of wildlife
conservation in the United States.
Nevertheless, states have deployed a declining percentage of
these funds to establish public shooting ranges, due to fiscal con-
straints. The costs associated with siting a range and the two-year
timeline to deploy Pittman-Robertson funds for such a project be-
fore they are reclaimed by the federal government have led to a
steep decline in the development of these sorts of projects. As a re-
sult, the public's ability to undergo firearms safety training and for
hunters to sight in their firearms before the hunting season have
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