AZ SCM1018

Urges the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to maintain access to public recreational shooting opportunities in the Sonoran Desert National Monument.

Emphasizes that recreational target shooting is a valued activity protected under Arizona's Constitution and the Second Amendment, and has been practiced on public lands since territorial days.

Notes that a U.S. District Court ordered the BLM to temporarily close 10,599 acres of the monument to recreational target shooting, and the BLM must develop new management actions in its Draft Resource Management Plan.

Highlights that more than 269,000 Arizona hunters spend $341.7 million annually on outdoor activities and rely on BLM lands to practice marksmanship and hunting skills, with sporting arms sales funding conservation through the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act.

Requests the BLM conduct a cumulative impact analysis on recreational target shooting as a legal and compatible recreational activity on the monument and other Arizona monuments while balancing resource protection.