Posted on 12/01/2013 9:49:24 PM PST by servo1969
I am one who steers very clear of tinfoil hat conspiracy theories. I often believe progressives plant stories in order to distract and disrupt, enabling them to pursue their true goals and objectives. That’s why I stress the importance of staying focused on the modern liberal socialist policies of the Obama administration, not the sideshow antics.
However, as a former combat commander, I have been trained to look for trends. And I believe we’ve found a very disturbing one. it seems that back door gun control is in full effect in the United States. Why? Thanks to Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), we can no longer smelt lead from ore in the United States.
The first contact the EPA made with The Doe Run Lead Smelter in Herculaneum, Missouri (population 2,800) was in 2008 but it was in 2010 that the EPA finally forced Doe Run to plan a shut down. This plant has been in operation since 1892 but will finally close its doors this month. It was the last lead smelting plant in the US.
The closedown is due to new extremely tight air quality restrictions placed on this specific plant. President Obama and his EPA raised the regulations by 10 fold and it would have cost the plant $100 million to comply.
In response to the Doe Run lead smelter shutdown, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the Doe Run Company “made a business decision” to shut down the smelter instead of installing pollution control technologies needed to reduce sulfur dioxide and lead emissions as required by the Clean Air Act.
Of course this is why we need serious regulatory reform that precludes executive agency fiat, especially regulation implementation that exceeds a certain adverse financial impact to a private sector business.
Of course the canned progressive socialist response is “For years families with children near Doe Run’s facilities have been exposed to unacceptable levels of lead, one of the most dangerous neurotoxins in the environment,” said Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for the EPA’s Office of Compliance and Enforcement Assurance. There are a few auxiliary lead processing plants remaining in the USA but their function is to re-claim lead from old batteries.
What this all means is that after December 2013, any ammunition that will be available to US citizens will have to be imported, which will surely increase the price and possibly come under government control. It seems this is fully in concert with the US Military and Homeland Defense recent purchase of large quantities of ammunition.
The effect is chilling: you can own all the guns you want, but if you can’t get ammo, you are out of luck. Remember when President Obama promised his minions that he was working on gun control behind the scenes? Welcome to it. The result is that all domestically mined lead ore will have to be shipped overseas, refined and then shipped back to the US.
Not only will ammo be even harder to come by, the demand and the process of supply will cause the price to skyrocket even more. And ponder this, there is an excellent chance that Obama will rig the market to where all ammo has to be purchased from the government instituting an ammo registration.
There hasn’t been a peep about this in the major news outlets, but it’s done. With the US no longer producing lead, all supplies will now have to come from China, Australia or Peru, with the overwhelming emphasis on China.
China is the largest miner of lead and the largest importer of scrap lead in the world. The highly progressive state of California recently passed a law that lead ammo is banned for sporting use. There is an alternative, copper ammo, but it is hugely expensive to make, and pure copper bullets are frequently labeled ‘cop killers’ so they can’t be sold.
So America, back door gun control is moving forward and while we are all distracted with Obamacare and Iran nuclear negotiations, our Second Amendment rights are undergoing an assault by clandestine infiltration. Remember we reported on this website the gun registration actions being undertaken in Washington DC. Barack Obama and his progressive socialist acolytes are quite savvy at political chess. He is seeking to outflank, envelope, and destroy the Second Amendment. Now it’s our move in 2014.
I’m good.
I lovAv West.
I live next to the Pacific Ocean. I can get smelt anytime.
I got plenty of lead inserted into tbise brass thingies.
It seems to me that one recycled car battery would provide enough lead for one person for a lifetime. 40 or 50 pounds.
No smelting, just melting....
I cast my own. There still seems to be plenty of lead available from the metal suppliers at a reasonable price.
See link from Sierra bullet folks:
Maybe things aren’t as dire as stated. Time will tell.
P.S. Go Col. West.
Guess it will have to be depleted uranium, then.
/johnny
No effect on US bullet manufacturing.
http://bearingarms.com/its-the-end-of-the-primary-lead-smelter-in-herculaneum-and-i-feel-fine/
It converted raw ore into metals, not recycling and recovering lead from scrap.
I think we still have other companies that do that here.
For now.
Or ... just load up the old 12 gauge with ball bearings.
I’ve always been looking for an excuse to start looking at crossbows.
IMHO, we are very close to an electromagnetic technology that allows lethal rounds to be fired with only the current from a lithium ion battery.
My son has such a toy that can rip a coke can to shreds from 30 feet. It uses plastic 6mm pellets. It’s also full auto... And it’d not even a “gun”. It’s a toy.
Or nails.
Bet a buck the Chinese can make bullets...
or guns that shoot nails.. already hav’em
Unfortunately car batteries contain mostly lead oxides, diluted sulfuric acid and plastic. You can’t just melt them into bullets. I cast my own bullets where I live it is starting to get more difficult to get scrap lead... mostly because lead tire weights have now been banned for a couple of years.
What is it and where did he get it? Got some bunnies that could, uh, benefit from something like that. If they ain’t paying for the grass, they don’t get to munch on it.
There was a posting here the other day about 3D printing with sintered metals suck as Inconel and tungsten. Bullets of exotic design should be possible too.
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