U.S. Outfitters has sued the state of Arizona in federal court because Arizona has restricted nonresident tags for big game in all elk areas of the state, and the Kaibab Forest to ten percent of the total tags. There were no restriction for nonresidents in the rest of the state.
Arizona won the case in federal court in Phoenix, but U.S. Outfitters then appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. There, the judge overturned the lower courts decision and returned it to to lower court which ruled in favor of U.S. Outfitters. It is now law, that nonresidents may apply equally for all Arizona big game tags in competition with residents.
What this means for Arizona residents is we now will find it almost impossible to hunt in our own state where we pay taxes.
Two years ago, all tags were reduced for most hunts by about 20 percent. This year, agin due to the drought, tags for deer and elk were reduced by almost 40 percent.
For those of you who feel this is an Arizona problem, guess again. U.S Outfitters is now sueing Nevada and Montana under the same violation of the Constitution's commerce clause.
Kiss your hunting goodbye. The rich have finally found out how to put it to us. Who comes next after NV and MT? How about OR,WY, WA, UT, Hey, don't think because they haven't attacked you yet that they won't. Greed knows no bounds.
