Posted on 04/11/2015 3:17:10 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Environmental activists cheered the California Fish and Game Commission’s decision to adopt regulations banning the use of lead ammunition for hunting throughout the Golden State.
In a unanimous vote, the Commission opted to phase out lead bullets, which hunters groups are calling a de-facto ban on hunting in the state. Environmentalists, on the other hand, are saying these regulations will save California Condors and Golden Eagles from getting lead poisoning.
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But conflicting federal and state regulations over non-lead ammo only bolster critics’ claims that the lead bullet ban is a de-facto ban on hunting. The federal government is preventing companies from making non-lead bullets, but California won’t allow hunters to use lead ammo.
It looks like a Catch-22 for hunters.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
We’ve just been bunting the wrong species.
Windmill farms kill more eagles and condors than lead bullets so when will Kalifornia ban those. The whole state just needs to fall into the Pacific.
Disgusting. Pure BS
Is lead poisoning in Condors and Golden Eagles common in California from hunting with lead bullets?
Lead can cause brain damage in animals shot by lead bullets
What about street gangs? Will they still be permitted to use lead bullets for their drive-by shootings?
Polidiots an presstitutes tenderized with a good piece of hickory would be educational ....
Stupid is as stupid does.
This is going to the courts. A gov’t cannot regulate or tax a right to death.
This.
Condors and Eagles scour the countryside looking for bits of lead to chow down on
My guess is only if they're shot.
I believe they do not have one confirmed case of an Eagle or Condor ingesting lead and dying from lead poisoning.
But, liberals never need evidence to support their ideas....they just make it up!
Does this mean we get to switch to depleted uranium ammo? Wahoo!!!
Kind of amazing to me that we haven’t come up with some type of biodegradable alternative to lead bullets and fishing sinkers by now.
Maybe the cost incentive will lead to innovation.
True, another “seriousness of the charge” thing maybe. Really couldn’t see it being that big an issue to warrant a ban on lead bullets, more like an excuse..
“What about street gangs? Will they still be permitted to use lead bullets for their drive-by shootings?”
No, they will not be allowed to use lead bullets. They will be given special dispensation to use armor piercing, non-lead bullets.
Study confirms ammunition as main source of lead poisoning in condors
August 30, 2006
By Tim Stephens, Staff Writer 459-2495
A study led by environmental toxicologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has confirmed what wildlife biologists have long suspected: Bullet fragments and shotgun pellets in the carcasses of animals killed by hunters are the principal sources of lead poisoning in California condors that have been reintroduced to the wild.
Lead poisoning is a major factor limiting the success of efforts to rebuild populations of the endangered California condor. Since the mid-1980s, condors have been bred in captivity and released back into the wild in California, Arizona, and Baja California. The birds, which feed on carrion, can ingest lead from ammunition in animal carcasses or gut piles left behind by hunters.
The UCSC researchers used a “fingerprinting” technique based on the unique isotope ratios found in different sources of lead. The technique enabled them to match the lead in blood samples from condors to the lead in ammunition. Their findings were published online today by the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
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http://news.ucsc.edu/2006/08/927.html
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