Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and good food. All right, what's up everybody?

You know, when I slash, I think I can say we when we think about hunting oftentimes I think things like family

friends spending quality time together, enjoying nature, providing for our families,

tradition, these are all things at least,

I feel like they come to our minds.

What doesn't necessarily come to my mind are those things being political and I think

unfortunately I guess I'll say unfortunately I'll provide my opinion my commentary they really are nowadays

So we are sitting down here. Well, we're not sitting down here with we're sitting down with remotely

We've got Sean and Evan from the Sportsman's Alliance and

gentlemen number one thanks for joining us and number two since you can do it way

better than I can maybe introduce

yourselves and talk a little bit about the Sportsman's Alliance and and and what

you guys are about. Sean Curran, Vice President of Membership and Court of

Partnerships Sportsman's Alliance is a 40 year old

organization for many of the years. We've kind of been the political force behind the scenes working with all the other major groups out there, all your other NGO partners like National Shooting Sports Foundation or Turkey Federation, RVM, all those groups, along with local and state-based groups.

But we've been focused on fighting behind the scenes

for sportsmen's issues.

So we do so in state legislatures. We do so at the ballot box, we do so in the court system.

We've been doing that well for 41 years now. And that's largely been and still remains.

You know, our mission is to protect the American traditions of hunting, fishing, and

trapping.

So, you know, in a nutshell, any time that there is a piece of legislation introduced or, you know, a ballot

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