Duh.
It's the progressive's plan from the beginning.
When these sports die out, we won't even have legit reason to own guns.
We have always had, and always will have, a legitimate reason to own guns.
It has nothing to do with sport, and that has a great deal to do with why we are in this situation.
To Protect Life!
When your right to firearms, for protection of life, is generally recognized your ability to use them for recreation is rarely in jeopardy.
However, for the past half century the sporting community has been absent from advocating for the one thing upon which all access to firearms depends.
The excuses given are manifold, and every damned one is nonsense!
Note that one still has access to handguns for self defence even though the regs ensure that only the economically or politically powerful actually qualify, because it isn’t about how badly you need the handgun or whether your knowledge and skill are up to snuff.
It is about who you are.
And far too many of us were quite happy to sell their neighbours down the river in the vain hope that their sport would survive.