CountryBoy19
Grandmaster
I've believed the DNR have been up to some trickery on this from the beginning. They want us to think it is the fault of legislators because it is modern day common that legislators get blamed for everything and have terrible ratings. It is not the legislator's duty to understand every tiny nuance of things they may not participate in.
It was the DNR's job to steward this through, that is what they are paid for. There is NO excuse for this getting to any vote being wrong as it supposedly is.
It is also very suspect that there is no emergency provision to be made to accommodate already published regulations and common knowledge of rules that were not subject to change.
This smells bad and it's not getting any better. They work for us. Heads need to roll...
If you had asked me a week ago I would have disagreed with you because it does seem like it was out of their hands once the issue was discovered but I came across a thread from June in the Indiana Hometown section of arfcom a few days ago that led me to believe otherwise. In that thread a poster stated CO's were aware of this problem BEFORE this year's guides were printed and they were confident that the guides were going to be printed with PCRs ruled-out for public property. That leads me to believe it had been filtered from the CO's up the chain to mgmt., or down the chain from mgmt. to the CO's. So at least a reasonably large portion of DNR (CO's and their mgmt.) had to have known about this issue by June of this year. Which, to me, leads me to believe they were intentionally delaying the release of this until it was "too late to fix it for this year". What could the motive be? The only motive I can see is to test the waters to see how much of a stink is raised about it. The only reason to test that is to gather data that can be used to determine the path forward wrt rifles on public property (PCR or HPR).
So, if you're unhappy about this, raise a big stink. If you really want to get some attention get the home number for your state legislator and let him/her know you're NOT happy.