The Pitmin/ Robinson act is an act that was set up at the request of Sportsman to tax hunting and fishing gear so that a fund could be set up to support wildlife and wildlife education. I belive the Federal Government uses it to match the states funds dollor for dollor. I was reading the other day in the news paper that they were thinking about applying it to other sporting goods like hiking and boadting equipment to help support the failing federal forrests. Its a good thing it is also used to pay for hunter education thats why it dosen't cost anything to take the course.