2021-02-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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swaying palm trees and hula girls. That's the Hawaiian brand and shooting is not the Hawaiian brand. There's the menus, OK, that's a bunch of stuff — so we accommodated everyone that we could think of and all those that came to the planning meetings and provided just about everything anybody needed including a 1,000 yard high power rifle range. And that's what it looks like when we laid it out — there's a little spur down on the left hand side there and it says that's a roadway to go into any law enforcement activity. We talked to the police department over several years through two police chiefs and got different response from both of them as far as participating in this and in the end we decided we'll provide you a place and you can go do whatever you want to do. I was a policeman for six years, I know how cops want to shoot but that's not how civilians want to do it, OK? Another picture of the shooting facility range — safety issues — satisfies local recreation day and provides an economic benefit. It's a good place to provide instruction on gun safety — we do that at the Hilo all skeet and trap range now — but we're limited to shot guns. It would be a good place for hunter education field training — I taught hunter education about three centuries ago - and when we taught hunter safety education we had field days where we would have kids climb over fences and all that good stuff — trails all out in the open — I don't think they do that anymore but anyway it would be a good place to do it. Structured recreational shooting activities — so we would finally get some rifle competition — some pistol competition — both static and action and law enforcement training — as I say there is a place to do that. The world designed effectively operating shooting facility located in a vacation rich environment within an amenable year-round climate will attract competitive shooters from all over the world. I tried to preach that and I think it just falls on deaf ears. But here's some of the examples — the benefit of hunting and target shooting is over 110 billion dollars annually. Look at Camp Perry — Camp Perry — the National Guard training facility every year provides $20 million dollar benefits to the local Ohio community — that's where Camp Perry is. And there's another one there —158,000 individuals spent 6 million days target shooting providing 124 million dollars of revenue to the State of Nebraska. And just here — 75 % of the participants at the Pacific International Trap Shooting Assn and that's at Hilo — the 4 -day competition — 75% are island visitors. Visitors spend money. Some more stuff — Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation — look at 11