Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales

The Guardian ^ | 7/10/2025 | Peter Walker

[aposiopetic]

Shotgun pellets and bullets that contain lead are to be banned for almost all uses, ministers have said, in a long-awaited announcement welcomed by wildlife groups.

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The change to the law, announced by the environment minister Emma Hardy, will outlaw shotgun pellets containing more than 1% lead, and bullets that have more than 3%.

[aposiopetic]

This speaks for itself.

[crusty old prospector]

Bismuth be my lucky day.

[A Navy Vet]

"This speaks for itself."

Yup. Britain has turned into France.

[MtnClimber]

Steel core AP bullets should be OK?

[Leaning Right]

Will Muslims still allowed to stab people using knives with lead content?
The article doesn’t say.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

I am 100% SURE that all of the criminals, gangs, and yes, even terrorists will follow these new rules.

[Wilderness Conservative]

As long as all old lead ammo gets used on the rape and stab gangs.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

I just thought of one more thing.

If the EU banned testicles, would anyone notice?

[fruser1]

[Organic Panic]

Because the UK has such great dental care to fix the broken teeth of those who bite in to tungsten shot instead of soft lead.

[OHPatriot]

I thought that testicles were surrendered in the EU decades ago.

[dayglored]

I’m sure depleted uranium should be a fine substitute.

[dayglored]

> Bismuth be my lucky day.

OMG. You win the thread.

[dayglored]

From Wikipedia:

The metal's only primordial isotope, bismuth-209, undergoes alpha decay with a half-life roughly a billion times longer than the estimated age of the universe.

I ain't holding my breath.

[Revel]

Another weapons grab with a fictional excuse.

[dangus]

Huh. It never occurred to me that the heaviest naturally occurring atoms also took up more space. It turns out that density isn’t very proportional to atomic weight. Lead’s density (11.32 g/cm^3) isn’t THAT much higher than copper (8.93), bisthmus (9.81) or nickel (8.91). It’s enough to make me wonder why depleted uranium (18.95) is used when tungsten (19.15) is actually heavier.

[Palio di Siena]

Balmoral excepted /s

[No name given]

Not really.

[crusty old prospector]

I’d go with the 207 or 208.

[vikingd00d]

>>Steel core AP bullets should be OK?

Might as well go with depleted uranium rounds, just to be sure.