You know exactly what I meant by ARs. Your post strictly called out regulations as a reason hunters are leaving and why we may not be able to get more boots on the ground.
You may believe that other hunters are driving out hunters but that's not what you said. Honestly poachers and trespassers can drive away just as many hunters as those "elitists" who speak out against them.
So again, all recent regulations have been made in an attempt to increase Hunter numbers and I don't know of one to drive anyone away. Proposed and implemented are not the same thing.