EPA banning lead bullets?

[Newarcher]

http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/epa-reviewing-request-ban-led-bullets

It just amazes me how dumb imam amabo is. To do this the day before the elections would just be stupid. He doesn't seem to have a stupid meter these days!

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[Prairiepredator]

I read an article debating lead bullets in a magazine once. Studies have shown that hunters have more lead in their blood than a non-hunter, which may not be surprising. But...these amounts of lead are not even anywhere close to having a toxic affect on us. Lead bullets are not anything to be making a big fuss over, thats for sure.

[Adjam5]

With the fall hunting season fast approaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey, is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) - a leading anti-hunting organization - to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition. If the EPA approves the petition, the result will be a total ban on all ammunition containing lead-core components, including hunting and target-shooting rounds. The EPA must decide to accept or reject this petition by November 1, 2010, the day before the midterm elections.

Today, the EPA has opened to public comment the CBD petition. The comment period ends on October 31, 2010.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry -- urges you to submit comment to the EPA opposing any ban on traditional ammunition. Remember, your right to choose the ammunition you hunt and shoot with is at stake.

* There is no scientific evidence that the use of traditional ammunition is having an adverse impact on wildlife populations.

* Wildlife management is the proper jurisdiction of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and the 50 state wildlife agencies.

* A 2008 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on blood lead levels of North Dakota hunters confirmed that consuming game harvested with traditional ammunition does not pose a human health risk.

* A ban on traditional ammunition would have a negative impact on wildlife conservation. The federal excise tax that manufacturers pay on the sale of the ammunition (11 percent) is a primary source of wildlife conservation funding. The bald eagle's recovery, considered to be a great conservation success story, was made possible and funded by hunters using traditional ammunition - the very ammunition organizations like the CBD are now demonizing.

* Recent statistics from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service show that from 1981 to 2006 the number of breeding pairs of bald eagles in the United States increased 724 percent. And much like the bald eagle, raptor populations throughout the United States are soaring.

Steps to take:

1. Submit comment online to the EPA.

2. Contact Lisa Jackson directly to voice your opposition to the ban:

Lisa P. Jackson

Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20460

(202) 564-4700

Fax: (202) 501-1450

Email: [email protected]

3. Contact your congressman and senators and urge them to stop the EPA from banning ammunition.

I just wrote my letter to Ms Jackson. I hope you do the same.

[HUNTINGMAN]

Guess I need to find some all Steele bullets. There gonna try and do what they did to the waterfowl hunters.

[OJR]

It's not going to happen. Check the headlines today!

[dbHunterNY]

You can MAYBE phase lead out, but you can't just ban it. It'd be a huge mess. Shooting sports would jurastically decline. A box of bullets or shells for your gun, if you could find one, would cost like $100 due to demand. Not to mention what would happen with the massive current supply of lead bullets that are already in the hands of the consumer? In general, shooters and hunters went out and purchased a surplus of ammo, thinking Obama would be able to put a ridiculous tax on them.

[Adjam5]

It's not going to happen. Check the headlines today!

This gentleman is correct...

http://politics.usnews.com/news/washington-whispers/articles/2010/08/27/epa-surrenders-to-nra-on-gun-control-issue-epa-rejects-attempt-to-regulate-lead-in-bullets-after-nra-protests.html

This is exactly why EVERY gun owner should be a NRA member. We all benefit form their actions.

[HUNTINGMAN]

This is realy good news, seams like those dems are allways wanting to mess stuff up.

[PA_RIDGE_RUNNER]

I already emailed Lisa with my comments.

I read an interesting reply to this by a civil war reenacter. His comment was Gettysburg and other spots of major civil war battles have about as large a concentration of lead as one can imagine and life there is no more dangerous than anywhere else.

[wtnhunt]

Updates say that the EPA denies the petition and claims they have no legal authority over regulating this type of ban.

[gzilla45]

I sent an email to her anyways. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they still did something like this in the future. We need to keep the pressure on them that this is a crazy idea.