Trump Executive Order Re-Legalizes Lead Bullets (Firearm Projectiles)

Breitbart ^ | 19 Sep 2026 | AWR Hawkins

[Paal Gulli]

Trump Uses Executive Order to Expand Hunting and Fishing Opportunities

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday expanding the amount of federal land available for use by hunters and fishermen and removing years of anti-hunting regulations.

The White House noted that the order erases years of regulatory actions that targeted lead ammo and fishing tackle....

Link to the EO itself:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reinvigorates-americas-hunting-heritage/

"...The Order directs the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of Commerce to propose changes to polices that prevent access of public lands for recreation, infrastructure repair, and wildlife management, as well as to encourage volunteers to manage wildlife populations and invasive species, allow the use assistive technology on access trails and hunting locations for people with disabilities, and allow the use of traditional lead ammo and tackle...."

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: 2a; activism; banglist; rkba

[blackdog]

The meat eating birds (Condors) are an example of the food chain introduction. In order to save the Condors (last dozen) they had to perform chelation blood filtering therapies on them to enable them to successfully hatch out chicks. The lead levels were so high in them.

Today, there are six hundred Condors thanks to removing lead from their systems with filtering that lead out. It is done by infusing molecules that bind with lead and are easily excreted from their system. (Chelation)

[blackdog]

I put split shot on and off my line with my teeth for about 40 years until I actually gave it a thought.

[P8riot]

While I agree, I have taken all of my turkeys with a bow over the last 10 years or so.

[blackdog]

https://www.vcreporter.com/news/condor-population-increase-number-of-birds-climbs-to-600-but-threats-from-lead-poisoning-complicate/article_f0e2313f-284f-40a1-8703-795b39ec5eba.html

[Track9]

‘I think turkey loads should be among the first to go back to lead-based.’

Yes. Turkey are not waterfowl.

[Track9]

I see they make some deadly arrow points. Like something they shot at Soleimani.

[ETCM]

Shotgun shells, yes. That lead is a problem, as it sprays everywhere.

Lead ammo for waterfowl is still banned by federal law. State laws also still apply, so states that ban lead ammo and tackle are not affected.

[Sacajaweau]

We had a couple molds for sinkers...fun to watch dad do his thing.

[yesthatjallen]

"Like so many loopy ideas, the campaign against lead was begun in Kommiefornia, where their Ouija board told them that lead was damaging the ecosystem because hunters were killing game animals using lead-based projectiles, then abandoning their harvest to be eaten by scavengers. And being dumb animals, the scavengers eat the carcass, lead and all. Or so says the Ouija board."

Lead is neurotoxin.

[Scrambler Bob]

What about fishing sinkers?
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If you catch a fish with a sinker in his gut, don’t eat it.

Problem solved.

[Scrambler Bob]

Waterfoul does seem to suck up lead shot when eating.

And grind it up in its gizzard, which would be a problem.

Maybe . . .

It is the worst case that I see. If it is true.

[Scrambler Bob]

, but the other 100 went rogue, small enough to be consumed by other wildlife such as Condors, cranes, water fowl, ground birds, fish, and reptiles
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So that other 100 rogue is scattered on the ground?

And Condors, cranes, ground birds, etc., eat it?

[mfish13]

I switched to depleted uranium shot.

[blackdog]

Yep. Not the condors though. They’re further up the food chain. They eat the dead things that ate the other critters full of lead shot.