"Eagles are doing very well, their recovery is a great success story largely supported by excise taxes paid by hunters" on lead ammunition and guns, said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports Association.
Bald eagle threat: Lead ammo left behind by hunters →
"The complaints from the gun-control groups [in the 1990s] were that there were way, way too many FFLs, and the government needed to crack down on and reduce the number of licensees," said Lawrence Keane, general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry's trade association. "Now all of a sudden, we're hearing the gun control groups say there aren't enough licenses, and everybody needs to have a license."
Obama to reverse Bill Clinton gun control strategy, increase number of licensed dealers →
