Lead bullets under fire

Casper Star Tribune ^ | 6 Nov 08 | CHRIS MERRILL

[SLB]

Buy your ammunition while you can. You can never have too much.

[Spktyr]

The real solution, if lead rounds are a problem, is to let us use more health-friendly steel-core rounds. Wait, you say those were banned by the Democrats?

[SLB]

Something else for big brother to proclaim we don’t need as “he” knows what is best for us.

[randomhero97]

Working on it. Plus, I'm buying more "toys" to put them in. I getting this beauty when he gets more in stock:

www.hendersondefense.com

[FreedomPoster]

BLOAT. Then BLOAT some more.

This sort of thing is how the Dems will work infringements on the upcoming go-around. They’ve been burned on direct assaults, so they’ll be trying round-about approaches.

[CapnJack]

I thought I read a study (not sure if it was by the CDC) that lead core ammunition also posed a significant health risk to certain politicians who support the side of tyranny.

[Spktyr]

They already have banned lead shot in several states, requiring bismuth or steel shot... and now there are “concerns” about the “health effects” of the bismuth shot...

[gridlock]

The level of lead in the blood that are considered harmless by the CDC is truly miniscule. If the level of lead caused by eating game harvested with lead bullets is significantly less than that, it must be very, very miniscule.

I suspect the CDC just got themselves a fancy new low-level GCMS/AA and is looking at the parts-per-trillion level. All sorts of mischief can arise as limits of detection fall, including nonsense like this.

Just because something can be detected does not mean it is a problem. Everybody in the country probably had a blood lead level a thousand times what they are talking about here, back when we used to put lead in paint and motor fuel.

[rjamesca]

Should somebody tell them to stop eating the bullets after they shoot the animal?

[gridlock]

Sounds like the Governor of North Dakota needs to come down like a ton of bricks on the Health Department. If he refuses to do so, the voters should come down like a ton of bricks on the Governor.

This is political nonsense dressed up as science. The Health Department is trying to create a scare where no cause exists. There is enough to worry about in this World without making stuff up.

[Vinnie]

Switch to the Barnes X bullet. All copper and supposed to be very lethal.

[gridlock]

Hey, North Dakota!

Are you feeling suddenly "blue"?

You have nobody to blame but yourselves!

[backhoe]

Lead- it’s the new Mercury...

Seriously, what else does anybody expect, with the New Messiah elected?

All the anti-freedom kooks will feel empowered, and come out of the woodwork— just like they did with Clinton.

All Gay Garbage...

All Abortion...

All Sensible Gun Regulations...

...all the time.

[BobbyT]

The lefties love entitlements, angry slogans, and demands, so here goes:

We demand equal access to government surplus depleted uranium rounds in a diversity of calibers NOW!

[petro45acp]

“The vast majority hunters in the United States use lead ammo. “

yep,

jacket\
lead>>>>
jacket/

Wondering if the milliseconds a jacketed lead projectile spends in game is actually long enough to leach. Game birds are a different matter, and as tasty as they are, don’t think of them as a staple food.

by the by, shot, from game prepared as food is where we get the “shot glass” from. A polite way to spit out the shot at the table.

Hold’em and squeeze’em

[Izzy Dunne]

Those who ate wild game killed with lead bullets seemed statistically to have higher lead levels

They didn't mention fish killed with lead bullets, so I guess I'm safe...

[PowderMonkey]

"Something else for big brother to proclaim we don’t need as “he” knows what is best for us.

Yep. There you go. If memory serves, this same crap surfaced at the time Clinton was first stepping into the White House himself. Newspapers and airwaves filled with "Scare Mommy" stories about everything from the dangers of allowing your children to play little league baseball, riding bicycles bareheaded, lead poisoning from crystal stemware and Mikasa...as my wife finally said, "Hey! Wait a minute. I'm NOT giving up my Waterford crystal or Mikasa place settings!"

[absolootezer0]

in rifle rounds i can use a barnes, accuracy is great with them, but no way could i use them in my pistols. i shoot 3-4000 rounds a year just of .44, and at $1/ bullet, i can’t afford that much. i’ll stick to my lead rounds that run about $.10 each.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

This is almost as shocking as the number of people that die each year having digested dihydrogen monoxide. Millions are exposed daily and yet the government does nothing.

[mad_as_he$$]

Can you name the States? Lead is banned for water fowl shooting for obvious reasons. Oh and in Kalifornia all lead bullets are banned in Condor Kountry.