ok, so I assume that their motive in banning lead bullets is to make it more difficult to use guns (a run around of the second amendment, that, if people used parallel reasoning to get around rove v wade they would be screaming bloody murder), but what do they give publicly as their reason? surely they don’t admit to their motives?
“what do they give publicly as their reason?”
Phony environmentalism. Supposedly animals eat gutpiles with lead bullets and get poisoned. Lead bullets were banned for hunting in the California condor’s range for that reason years ago. This expands that to the whole state. Doesn’t effect use for other than hunting.
The given reason is the same as taking the lead out of gasoline. Among other things I have heard that wild fowl were using lead shot in their gizzards and poisoning themselves, not good if we want to hunt and eat them.
They’ve been yammering for years about how wildlife eat the lead, especially shotgun pellets, and that it’s toxic. I’m not familiar with the research (if any) on this, but I suspect it’s a purely agenda-driven claim, because metallic lead isn’t really all that soluble, and it has to dissolve in the GI tract to do any damage; otherwise you just crap it out and go on about your business.