Yesterday, the Kentucky 2024 Regular Legislative Session adjourned sine die. This means the regular legislative session is completed for the year. This year’s session was a little more exciting for sportsmen than last year.
Thanks to your calls and emails, the detrimental bill, Senate Bill 3, to bring fish and wildlife under the Commissioner of Agriculture, was defeated.
Kentucky sportsmen were also further protected as House Bill 357 became law without Governor Andy Beshear’s signature.
HB 357 prohibits a financial institution or its agent from requiring or incentivizing the use of a firearms merchant category code (MCC) and prohibits any person, governmental or private entity from knowingly or willfully keeping any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or any list, record or registry of the owners of those firearms created or maintained through the use of a firearms code.
Even though the 2024 legislative session is over, the Sportsmen’s Alliance will continue to monitor activities in the Bluegrass State. You never know when issues that sportsmen need to be aware of may arise.
You can view the bills the Sportsmen’s Alliance monitored during the legislative session on our interactive map. Please share this message with your family and friends, as sportsmen throughout the state must continue to stay actively involved in defending our hunting, fishing, and trapping heritage for present and future generations to enjoy.
About the Sportsmen’s Alliance: The Sportsmen’s Alliance protects and defends America’s wildlife conservation programs and the pursuits – hunting, fishing and trapping – that generate the money to pay for them. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation is responsible for public education, legal defense and research. Its mission is accomplished through several distinct programs coordinated to provide the most complete defense capability possible. Stay connected to Sportsmen’s Alliance: Online, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
