Fourscore and 3.2 billion dollars ago, the industry that I represent and the wildlife agencies that you represent entered into a partnership. Industry committed to send you 11 cents out of every dollar's worth of firearms and ammunition we sold, and you promised to use those revenues to restore the wildlife populations on which my industry, your agencies, and our collective outdoor and sporting heritage was based. This morning I can say, without hesitation, that the manufacturers of sporting firearms and ammunition have been proud of their role in this historic partnership-a partnership that is one of the most impressive and successful in history. We hope, and we suspect, you feel the same way. But today-partly because it is my assigned topic and in part because my industry and your resource agencies are at a collective crossroads-it is appropriate to revisit this partnership.