An update now to a story we brought you last month about concern over the future of archery programs in schools.

On Friday, President Biden signed legislation to restore federal funding for archery programs and hunters safety education in schools.

It's in response to an interpretation of the 2022 bipartisan Safer Communities Act that had many believing public schools could be stripped of federal funding for those programs in their curriculum.

Tommy Floyd, president of the National Archery in the Schools program, said it was a situation lawmakers on both sides of the aisle acted quickly to correct.

This is a conversation that I think brought people together.

There had been some issues with interpretations, interpretations from the from the from the national education folks about the use of ESEA funds for archery instruction, hunter education instruction and others.

Alaska was wanting to possibly use some federal funding to continue and establish training for for NASCAR programs there, and it was their intent to seek guidance as any administrator would, about whether they could use those funds.

The the guidance back from U.S. Department of Education was simply they interpreted that the wording of the bipartisan Safe Communities Act would prevent federal funding to be used for those for those purposes.

Now, this caused a stir across the nation, if you would.

There was there were a lot of conversations about what is the proper use, the people who crafted the bipartisan safety Immunities Act were very concerned that it was a mis interpretations.

All that led to a situation where in a rapid order you had genuine bipartisan support for H.R.

5110 to go to the president's desk for signature.

Last Friday, last Friday, President Biden signed H.R.

5110 into law, which allowed the language to to not be restrictive for the use of these funds, which, according to the folks who worked real hard on the original bipartisan Safe Communities Act, was their intent.

Having some time to have thought about it since.

I really think that the archery, the shooting sports as a whole became a unifier and if I may, that's really what makes us great about Americans, is that we can have different viewpoints, but there are certain things that are non-negotiable.