The organizing committee of the request for a referendum for the repeal of Law 157/92, and more generally for the cancellation of hunting in Italy, announced in recent days that the Court of Cassation it would have invalidated approximately 177.000 of the 520.000 signatures collected, thus excluding the possibility that the referendum on hunting could take place. UNARM, which defends and enhances the hunting activity like any other recreational or cultural activity with weapons, learns with relief the news and intends to take the opportunity to point out, if necessary, how this event underlines the very clear separation between the opinions represented daily as majority by the press, from the world of entertainment, from politics and from a certain assault activism with respect to the real feeling of the Nation.
In fact, one cannot fail to notice how the hunting world, in recent years continuously defined as a minority and endangered, in the light of the latest developments, a number of active hunters almost double the number of citizens who wanted to express their aversion to hunting by signing the referendum initiative (among other things strongly facilitated by recent innovations in the field of digital signature and by the considerable extension of the period useful for collection). It is indisputable that between the two poles there are no "latent" opponents: the vast majority of Italians have no aversion to hunting, even when it is not openly favorable, just as many Italians consume, even sporadically, game.
It will perhaps be significant that of all the referendums for which signatures have recently been collected, this one, to date, is the only one who has not reached the minimum number? In these days, with the acclaim of the usual anti-arms associations, the Commission has begun the examination of a new heavily disarming bill alongside the previous ones already presented, whose purposes have nothing to do with the safety of citizens but they follow only repressive and oppressive objectives.
We invite the parties and individual politicians promoting these initiatives to ask themselves, outside their own "bubbles" and perceptions, whether they are really sure that the nation has the issue of weapons as a priority or is it even vaguely worried about it ... or if it is not a distinctly minority sentiment that simply enjoys disproportionate visibility. What is certain is that, as we have always done, we will continue to inform shooters, hunters, collectors, professionals and more generally to turn to nearly five million Italian gun owners so that, aware of the positions of each individual party regarding their rights, they can consciously express their vote (Source: UNARM).