Why It Matters: As the nation’s most effective outdoor advocacy organization, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation’s (CSF) policy experts at the state level work with all 50 state sportsmen’s caucuses to ensure the rights of hunters, anglers, recreational shooters, and trappers are protected and advanced. To better inform the policymaking process and to provide historical background information, CSF’s staff of policy experts created this valuable resource that encompasses more than 90 policy focus areas into one easy-to-use online catalog.
Highlights:
- The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation’s new slate of State Issue Briefs are now available.
- Benefitting all 50 state sportsmen’s caucuses, as well as the community at large, the State Issue Briefs catalog is a valuable resource that provides background information on more than 90 policy topics that CSF’s policy staff is focused on for 2025.
- New State Issues Briefs for this year include Fanning or Reaping as a Method of Taking Turkeys; Modernizing Muzzleloader Definitions; South Atlantic Red Snapper Management; and Straight-Walled Rifle Cartridges.
The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation’s 2025 State Issue Brief document is now available. Further cementing its status as a sportsmen’s community leader in statehouses across the country, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation’s expert policy team produces this valuable resource which provides legislators and members of the sportsmen’s community with the latest information on a wide variety of policy topics impacting the nation’s hunters, anglers, recreational shooters, and trappers.
Designed by CSF to assist the 50 state sportsmen’s caucuses and the more than 2,100 state legislators currently united through the National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses (NASC), State Issue Briefs provide critical background on policy and regulations impacting America’s outdoor heritage. Also available to the sportsmen’s community at-large, the Issue Brief catalog equips sportsmen and women with the background necessary to participate in the policymaking process effectively.
The full list of 2025 State Issue Briefs is comprised of more than 90 relevant topics and issues that are divided into four categories:
- Access and Opportunity
- Conservation
- Protecting and Promoting Our Sportsmen’s Heritage
- Youth Engagement and R3
The wide range of topics include Public Access to Private Land; Freshwater Angling Access; Conservation Sales Tax; State Fish and Wildlife Management Authority; Firearm Suppressors; Hunting with Dogs; Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges; White-tailed Deer Management – Hunting as a Preferred Management Tool; Sunday Hunting; Apprentice Hunting Licenses; Hunter Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation (R3); among many others.
Each year, CSF’s state and federal policy teams track more than 7,000 policy proposals related to hunting, angling, recreational shooting, trapping, and other conservation issues. As a result of the efforts of CSF’s network of federal and state sportsmen’s caucuses, over 1,400 pro-sportsmen’s bills have been passed in the last 7 years alone.
To view the 2025 State Issue Briefs, click here.
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