I don’t doubt you had this experience, like any government department anywhere in the world there are people who are not over regulations. But you don’t need a firearm license to get a game license, you got a bum steer on that one.
And just to play devils advocate, USA isn’t exactly a walk in the park for internationals. Despite the hoops we have to jump through to get gun licenses here none of the states I wanted to build points for in US would recognise my Australian hunting license in lieu of the hunter safety you require. That’s why I wasn’t ever able to start building points in MT, they want a hunter safety before you can start and wouldn’t recognise my license. Went with WY because I don’t need to complete it until I apply for tags.
