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Ivory Ban Update: Coalition Letter to FWS & Congress - Call or Email TODAY!

A coalition letter opposing the Ivory Ban was sent today to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel Ashe from 31 organizations representing a wide variety of impacted communities opposed to the ivory ban. As one of the founders of the coalition, Knife Rights was honored to be joined on the letter by the Custom Knife Collectors Association, the National Knife Collectors Association, the Professional Knifemakers Association, The Knifemakers' Guild as well as the industry's American Knife & Tool Institute. You can read this letter here: www.kniferights.org/Ivory_Coalition_Letter_4.4.14.pdf

The purpose of this letter was to put the Administration, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the House Appropriations Committee, as well as Members of Congress, on notice that this ivory ban will adversely affect a large number of Americans.

Please contact your Representative and Senators and let them know you oppose the Administration's new total ban on commercial sale and trade of pre-ban ivory that unfairly impacts millions of law-abiding Americans and which they have not shown will have any effect on poaching or the trade in illegal ivory.

You can find your Representative here: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
You can find your Senators here: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

The next step in our coalition strategy is for each of the impacted communities to present FWS with their own letter, which can be more specific in the nature of the adverse impact to that community. This will further emphasize the widespread negative effects this ban will have on Americans. Knife Rights, as the representative on the coalition for the grassroots knife community, is sending out a knife-centric letter to the many national, state and local knife organizations to endorse.

This is going to be a tough fight; the supporters of this irrational and unfair ban are well-organized and well-financed. However, if we all pull together, we have a chance to beat this. Start by calling or emailing Congress TODAY!

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on April 4, 2014 at 18:18

iKC has joined in sending the letter! Please, dont let the people WE pay do this. Just a few of the items I object to:

You cant sell your ivory knife, to save a species. But the same organisation will still be able to sell you a permit to Kill 2 Elephants a year and import the ivory to the US because they would be considered "sportsmans trophys".

Even if you can prove the ivory is over 100 years old, your still in violation because it could not have possibly entered the country though one of the specified ports. They have only been open about 40 years.

Those are my points of logic (or stupidity). My objection is that you suddenly become guilty unless you prove your innocence by destroying your ivory object to prove the species is not what "they" thought it was.

I adore Elephants and I am not a hunter. I am a citizen of a great country that wants to assist in making wild animals a reality in my great grand childrens lives as they are in mine.

THIS PROPOSAL IS NOT THE ANSWER