Earlier this week, the Trump administration reversed an Obama-era ban on importing elephant parts from two African nations, much to the (hypothetical!) delight of Donald Trump’s trigger-happy sons. And though at the time press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted this was in “response to a court decision impacting how trophy import applications are reviewed” and that Trump’s “position on trophy hunting [remained] the same,” the turn of events will not come as a surprise to anyone who’s taken a gander at the U.S. advisory board appointed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to weigh in on federal rules regarding imports of heads and hides of African lions, elephants, and rhinos. According to an investigation by the Associated Press, the board skews heavy on trophy hunters who believe that any attempt to regulate their hobby is tantamount to a terrorist attack. The 16 members of the board reportedly include:

A guy who co-owns a private hunting reserve with Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump ;

A former G.O.P. congressional staffer who is currently the National Rifle Association’s director of hunting policy;

A retired Oklahoma lobbyist who sits on the boards of the Safari Club and the N.R.A., and was lauded by the latter for his “five decades of participation and support for hunting, and his purchase of a lifetime N.R.A. membership for his grandson when the boy was 3 days old”;

A Republican fund-raiser who records show has killed nearly 500 animals, including at least 18 lions, 13 leopards, 6 elephants, and 2 rhinos;

A real gem named Ivan Carter who totally does not blow things out of proportion:

Carter . . . wrote an article after the infamous shooting of Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe declaring that anti-hunting forces were on the march. “This event and the subsequent events have been the ‘Twin Towers’ of the hunting world—our 9/11,” he wrote in a 2016 article, deploring airlines’ move to stop accepting hunting trophies as air cargo. He proposed fighting back in a war of public opinion, with hunters as infantrymen, organizations like Safari Club International as generals and the pro-hunting media as “a machine gun that can spew thousands of bullets into the opposition’s fighting force.”

Unsurprisingly, people who don’t think animals exist to give Donny Jr. and Eric something fun to do on the weekend are not thrilled that this collection of individuals is, as the council’s charter states, “recommending removal of barriers to the importation into the United States of legally hunted wildlife.” In a letter this week, a group of 20 animal welfare and environmental organizations argued that the council’s bias may violate the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which stipulates that government boards must not be improperly influenced by special interests and are balanced in their points of view. “If Trump really wants to stop the slaughter of elephants for trophies, he should shut down this biased, thrill-kill council,” Tanya Sanerib, a spokeswoman for the Center for Biological Diversity, told the AP. “The administration can’t make wise decisions on trophy imports if it only listens to gun-makers and people who want to kill wildlife.”

For its part, the Interior Department cannot believe anyone is questioning the makeup of its totally unbiased council. “There are members on the council that represent all areas of conservation and varying opinions,” spokeswoman Heather Swift said in a statement.