Posted on 12/27/2013 9:36:07 AM PST by raptor22
Gun Control: Thanks to government regulations, the closing of the last U.S. lead smelter and a push for "green" lead-free ammunition, ammo prices will skyrocket. Does the Second Amendment threaten the environment?
Having been stymied by court defeats such as the Supreme Court's deciding that the Second Amendment does indeed confer a right to keep and bear arms on individuals throughout the United States, advocates of a gun-free America and a disarmed citizenry are taking a different approach: Go after the ammunition through regulations that stifle domestic production and force the use of more expensive and eco-friendly substitutes.
Expanded regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency have forced the closing as of Dec. 31 of the country's last bullet-producing lead smelter — a facility operated by Doe Run Co. in Herculaneum, Mo., that first opened its doors in 1892. As a result of the closure, a company press release notes, 145 Doe Run employees and some 73 contractors will lose their jobs.
The Herculaneum smelter, according to the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action, is the only one in the U.S. that can produce lead bullion from raw lead ore and the components for traditional lead ammunition.
The only alternatives, the institute says, will be to import the ammo components or use EPA-approved "green" ammunition.
The Arms Trade Treaty may be unratified, but it provides the administration with a justification for restricting U.S. imports of ammunition and components.
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Don’t expect the RINOs or even the Tea Party in Congress to do a single thing about bringing Traitorobama and his EPA thugs of evil to justice. They have joined in benign complicity.
Isn’t there a provision somewhere for a second American Revolution?
Watermelons, green on the outside, commie red on the inside.
If so, the tires on every car in America will suddenly be out of balance.
That’s okay. You won’t have any fuel to run them anyway. And the electric ones don’t spin fast enough to be a problem.................
I don't know of a "provision"... but there are millions of "triggers" for one.
Of all the firearms manufacturing processes, casting bullets is one of the easier ones. There will always be lead or some suitable substitute available one way or another.
I guess we’ll just have to go to the environmental friendly Teflon coated ammo...lol
Yup. Destroy RKBA by wrecking the supply chain.
Looks like it will cost more, but people are not stopped from buying. And since this is such a key thing to a majority of the US population, they will continue buying, no matter what.
The fact that gun haters cannot accomplish their goals without resorting to subterfuge tells you everything you need to know.
That's also true of everything representatives of the Democratic [sic] party have been doing for years.
From “The Firearm Blog”
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/05/06/green-ammo-strikes-again-makes-soldiers-sick/
Two months ago I blogged that the Norwegian Army suspected that the ammunition used in their new H&K 416 rifles were making soldiers sicks. Chief of Staff Brig. General Rune Jakobsen initiated an investigation after Army HQ received three different reports about groups of soldiers getting sick after firing the new rifles. Symptoms included headaches, fever and joint pain. The investigation has determined that the soldiers were experiencing mild heavy metal poisoning caused by the “green” lead-free 5.56mm NATO ammunition manufactured by Nammo.
The report states that the gas exhausted from the rifles contained high levels of copper and zinc which account for all the symptoms suffered by the riflemen. A few, quite comical, short term solutions have been recommended. These include only shooting outside, slower rate of fire and spacing the shooters out more when at the range!
Most lead ore mined in the US was exported for smelting before this. And lead is the #1 recycled metal. (Think car batteries). One old car battery probably contains enough lead for a lifetime supply of .22LR bullets.
There is plenty of lead ore around, plenty of countries willing to do the smelting, and plenty of old batteries. So I doubt I'll run out of ammo before they throw dirt on top of me.
.. advocates of a gun-free America and a disarmed citizenry ..
want to disarm you.
Take away your security and your family’s too.
so they can feeeeel goood.
how touuuuching.
So, my fellow Americans, does this mean that you, or I, in defense of our home, or our person and loved ones outside the home, might be brought up on federal charges, for the ammunition we had in our possession BEFORE this cock-eyed, queer-devised ‘regulation’?????
Once again, I state for the record, I refuse!
Why? Ain’t nothing better for revolvers, than the bullet style made famous by Elmer Keith. The F.B.I. used them. The U.S. Treasury used them. The other side of that is how many city cops, in how many towns, from the ‘50’s forward, carried good old straight full wadcutters in thier Chiefs Specials, or their Detective Specials?
Lastly, “at knockout game range”, it was a simple round nose lead bullet, from a Colt Agent, that dispatched Lee Harvey Oswald, not a hollowpoint, not a frangible, or a red plastic filled bullet, just a round nose lead bullet.
Again, I refuse.
My ammo is lubricated with bacon grease & pesticide
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