Posted on 08/26/2010 7:33:25 AM PDT by autumnraine
Get used to it.
Think, "Brazil".
What do you replace lead with? If you replace it with a ferrous metal, you run the risk of starting wildfires from the sparks the bullet makes when it strikes rock, etc.
and so it begins....ping
Too bad iron-core handgun bullets have already been banned as “cop-killer.” (Even though zero cops had been killed by use of this ammunition to defeat ballistic armor, worn by a cop, at the time this legislation was passed, and this might still be true today.)
80-Million gun owners already in possession of BILLIONS of rounds of lead-containing ammo...yeah, this kind of “edict” will go over smoothly...can see that right now. /not/
Ammunition is explicitly excluded from the EPA’s ability to regulate via 15 USC Section 2602. Any ban will be struck down in court.
The EPA couldn’t be LESS interested in the FACTS of leads effect on the great outdoors. This is a purely political outfit, run by radical, anti 2nd amendment leftists. Does THAT give you a clue as to the final decision? And republicans should be SCREAMING this news to constituents RIGHT NOW as the EPA is filled with leftist democrats!!! Will they? Of course not. Wouldn’t be bipartisan, don’t you know!
Same here - - - - - at several hundred feet per second.
NObama campaigned with the words: “I can’t go after the 2nd Amendment because I don’t have the votes in Congress. Instead, I will go after the ammo. Without ammo, you cannot use your guns.”
People sure were not listening when those campaign speeches were broadcast, were they?
The paper yesterday said that all our cities are having to lengthen the duration of the “Walk” signs at crosswalks (and at considerable expense and traffic slow-down) — because of new federal regulations!! My God, they now dictate how long our crosswalk “Walk” signs must be lit. There isn’t anything the bastards won’t touch in our lives.”
Is this new time regulation Federal or State of California only? I am confused.
I see it as ‘make work’ so the public sector can hire thousands of people to change the intersections. That ‘creates new jobs’.
After millions of engineering dollars being spent to keep traffic flowing & keep smog down, this will surely upset the entire works. Then all the engineers will have to re-scale the traffic flows.
Nothing can be left alone, can it?
I am expecting a big outcry about how much paper is used for the size of the center roll of my toilet paper. Since the roller is smaller—they could make the carboard center roll smaller, etc.
BTW- While all of you are sending millions of dollars to the Nature Conservancy & the Sierra Club to save all the California REDWOOD trees——the ILLEGAL INTRUDERS in the forests in California have cut down 35 REDWOODS to get a better amount of sunshine onto their illegal grows of marijuana. LEO’s found the growing area——but, as usual, the persons involved ‘got away’.
Where is the outcry from all the Greenies to get these guys into jail forever????
The bureaucrats enjoy instituting regulations with the force of law (not passing laws) that make law abiding citizens into criminals. I can go on and on. It invades every corner of our lives. It is not right to live in guilt, trying to be a good citizen in the ways that count, but feeling like a criminal because sometimes you don’t recycle...
Now will the EPA enforce this by having local police contact all registered gun owners in their cities and towns to verify they no longer have the banned ammunition?
Guns don’t kill people, Communism kills people.
I’m sure this will be touted as how green jovs spur economic activity. “Look, we ban lead bullets so now the bitter clingy bible thumpers need to buy new bullets. Viola’! Economic activity!”
Disgusting.
Gun ping...
Bring it, bring it, bring it, Miss Jackson of the EPA. THIS is a hill I am willing to die on, and so are millions of other gun owners. Oh, you do NOT want to do this.
Lead in the form of ammuniton has for a long time been more valuable than gold. Sorry to dissapoint the Beckies who by the overpriced gold coins.... Need a couple tomatoes and hand the seller a gold coin, what do you get in change?
This is getting ridiculous we need some common sense in the government
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