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All right, Tom Breschen here. It is gun talk room. We talk about, well, what do you think? Guns.

For the next hour plus, plus, plus, because that's what we do around here. We talk about guns and

shooting and conservation. Sure, you know, hunters, we're the first conservationist,

really. We actually invented the word conservation, if you actually want to go back that far.

Much of our wildlife in America, the US wouldn't be here if it wasn't for hunting and the dollars

we put in and the work we put in, saving habitat. As we had an earlier guest talking about,

we really had almost no deer, oh, 150 years ago. Very, very few deer in America. There are far more

deer in the US now than there were when Columbus landed. Crazy, huh? How that happened. And while

Turkey's forget about it, it's like we got turkeys everywhere. Well, it happened because hunters

actually asked to be taxed. Imagine that. Hunter said, hey, we want to save wildlife. We would like

for the federal government to put an excise tax on guns and ammunition. It's called the Pitman

Robertson Act. And that money will be used for wildlife restoration, for habitat restoration,

for shooting ranges, and for a number of other things. But we put somewhere on the order of

$3 million a day into the coffers with the taxes that we pay plus license fees. There's no other

group that I'm aware of that puts that kind of money into conservation, into wildlife habitat.

And yet, we get made fun of by people who they like the habitat, they like the wildlife.

Maybe they just, I think they probably don't know. They probably don't know that hunters

pay for all this. I mean, where do you think the money comes from for game departments? Go check

out the funding for your wildlife department in your state. You'll find that a large percentage

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