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EPA Now Accepting Public Comment on Petition to Ban Lead in Ammunition and Fishing Tackle
CNS NEWS.com ^ | August 26, 2010 | Susan Jones

Posted on 08/27/2010 3:01:43 AM PDT by Cindy

"EPA Now Accepting Public Comment on Petition to Ban Lead in Ammunition and Fishing Tackle" Thursday, August 26, 2010 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor

SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) – Environmental activists are pressing the Obama administration to ban the manufacture, processing and distribution lead shot, bullets, and fishing sinkers under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, but hunting and Second Amendment groups say the EPA lacks the authority to do so, for starters."

SNIPPET: "The public comment period opened on Aug. 25 and ends on October 31. The EPA must decide whether to accept or reject the petition by November 1, 2010, the day before the midterm election."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; ammo; ammunition; banglist; biggovernment; democrats; elections; epa; fishing; fishingtackle; idiotalert; impeachobama; liberals; obama; politics; secondamendment; stuckonstupid
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1 posted on 08/27/2010 3:01:49 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Given that the EPA is a political organization and not a scientific one, this will be a hard decision.


2 posted on 08/27/2010 3:05:47 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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ON THE INTERNET:

www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#docketDetail?R=EPA-HQ-OPPT-2010-0681

www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#submitComment?R=0900006480b3974b


3 posted on 08/27/2010 3:05:47 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

I don’t remember ever taking any sort of an oath of allegiance to the EPA either in school or anywhere else in life. This will kill the 2’nd amendment and start a second civil war.


4 posted on 08/27/2010 3:08:50 AM PDT by wendy1946
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To: 1010RD

We need the second amendment more than we need the EPA


5 posted on 08/27/2010 3:09:53 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Cindy

What are the possible substitutes? Stainless steel, aluminum, copper, silver, gold, platinum?


6 posted on 08/27/2010 3:11:18 AM PDT by Son House (Like Getting Liposuction, and Coming Out Fatter. Time to Convict Democrats of Economic Malpractice.)
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To: 1010RD

I think I’ll vote with the TEA party on this one too, if Democrats and bureaucrats will still allow that...


7 posted on 08/27/2010 3:11:36 AM PDT by Son House (Like Getting Liposuction, and Coming Out Fatter. Time to Convict Democrats of Economic Malpractice.)
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To: gusopol3

Agreed and the war on lead is mythological. The metallic form has a low bio-availability and low toxicity. Water services serving millions of Americans are lead.

The attack on lead is bad science and now it is anti-American.


8 posted on 08/27/2010 3:14:15 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: Son House

Set aside enough money for bail, just in case.


9 posted on 08/27/2010 3:14:59 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: Son House; Cindy

“What are the possible substitutes? Stainless steel, aluminum, copper, silver, gold, platinum?”

Somehow, “I’ll pump ya full of steel (or aluminum, copper, silver, gold, platinum)” doesn’t have the same ring to it.


10 posted on 08/27/2010 3:15:57 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Son House

Silver makes a lousy bullet. I would think aluminum with a steel core would work. And I have a short (Two word) comment for the EPA.


11 posted on 08/27/2010 3:17:32 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
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To: Son House

Bullets can be made from copper but there’s almost no reasonable substitute for lead shot, anything else close to being as dense is expensive. That is, bullets for center-fire weapons can be made from copper, but a 22 might not really have the power to move copper bullets across rifling and most rimfire weapons could not easily be cleaned for copper fouling. Such a law might spell the end of the 22 and other new rimfire calibers.


12 posted on 08/27/2010 3:26:14 AM PDT by wendy1946
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That is, you’re probably talking about getting rid of shotguns and 22s.


13 posted on 08/27/2010 3:26:57 AM PDT by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946

Well then wendy1946,
Ya’d best get armed and prepared


15 posted on 08/27/2010 3:29:26 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy is little more than a quota boy.)
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To: BigCinBigD
C'mon, Tonto .. get up ... we gutta' get to work



16 posted on 08/27/2010 3:32:06 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Son House

“What are the possible substitutes? Stainless steel, aluminum, copper, silver, gold, platinum?”

If the Lefty looney PC crowd have their way.....cottonballs!


17 posted on 08/27/2010 3:32:16 AM PDT by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: Mrs. B.S. Roberts

How about we ban liberals and eco terrorists. We could use up all stocks of banned lead to eradicate them.


18 posted on 08/27/2010 3:45:17 AM PDT by Mouton
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To: Cindy

these bastards are completely out of control and need to be shut down.


19 posted on 08/27/2010 3:54:31 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: Cindy

No problem. People can simply use depleted uranium instead.


20 posted on 08/27/2010 4:11:27 AM PDT by cartan
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