Posted on 01/29/2013 10:13:33 AM PST by EXCH54FE
There are two more regulatory storm fronts moving in that may make it difficult or impossible to get the ammunition that firearm owners need to defend themselves and their families, and to engage in the shooting sports.
The uncoordinated attacks come separately from neo-enviro groups and from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. But taken together, these two separate proposals from these two separate groups create a perfect storm that could potentially result in an absolute ban on almost all ammunition.
How? The extremist environmental groups are trying to ban lead ammunition. Federal law already bans the use of lead ammunition to take water fowl, but these groups will not be satisfied until all lead ammunition use is prohibited. They claim that the minuscule levels of lead introduced into the environment by hunters causes harm to persons and wildlife (most notably the California condor). This junk science resulted in the state legislature passing a ban on lead ammunition in central California. Not content with leaving ammunition banned within California borders, the groups have expanded their push to ban lead ammunition into other states and at the federal level.
The groups pushing for bans on lead ammunition argue that there are less toxic substances than lead available to make bullets. In making this push they suggest that ammunition should be made from alternate materials such as tungsten alloys, bismuth, steel, iron, brass, copper or bronze instead of lead.
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What about all the Lead that is still in the ground? It’s a bleeping Element!
Which is made with either cotton seed residuals (”linters) or wood cellulose (from trees).
We need to save the spotted owl and cotton uses lots of man-made fertilizers.
Just saying, man.
When the anti-lead radicals began to agitate against lead in gasoline and paint, over forty years ago, we knew their real goal was ammo.
OMFG, THANK YOU MASS!
Just like oil, lead is present in nature. It's as natural as barn owls and tree frogs. This is proof that Liberals are lunatics. The environmentalists are walking contradictions.
The fact that some scumbag criminal dies from lead poisoning after attempting to break into my home is the point of having lead in my ammo!!!
Isn’t Bronze an Alloy made with Lead?
Don’t forget Arsenic!
Yeah, right.
“...tungsten alloys, bismuth, steel, iron, brass, copper or bronze instead of lead.”
It has been learned that lead in the soil (range berm) is stable, does not move. The above alloys, however, do move, do cause problems with the water table and everything connected with it.
Silly lead free ranges......
Will the govt be exempt?
The lead is a very serious pollutant, and so is the smoke from the gun powder. What is needed is a deposit system where lead bullets must be returned in order to get a deposit refund just like a bottle bill .
Better yet, each citizen should have to apply for their desired allotment of ammo and then once that allotment is set by a government agency the allowed allotment will serve as a set ration. For each spent lead bullet that is not returned, the ration for each citizen is reduced by the amount of spent lead bullets not accounted for and returned.
To deal with the smoke from gun powder, the first thing that is needed is some sort of cap and trade auction system where each citizen that wants to fire a gun has to bid on an allocation. This will greatly help reduce GHG (green house gas) emissions through an overall national allocation limit and a market approach supply and demand limit. The later should will find political acceptance with conservatives. To further control smoke from firing a gun, something like a catalytic converter for cars should be required for all guns.
Bronze is mainly copper/tin.
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