Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Getting the Lead Out

I'm not sure EPA has considered the environmental impact this could have.
Posted by David Codrea at 8/25/2010 01:55:00 PM

6 comments:

jon said...

so, gun owners let an act pass just as long as they got their out. they got everyone else, and now they're coming back to get you. can't say i feel any sympathy. can't say i'd feel any sympathy for anybody dumb enough to enforce this one, either. hah. i'd be happy to tell the EPA to go screw, but first let's see the NSSF also abrogate every position of legal privilege it holds, and throw its weight behind ending all regulation of firearms manufacture.

wildlife management is the proper jurisdiction of the people who own the land the wildlife in question are living on. you want jurisdiction? buy it. they won't sell? take a hike.

8/25/2010 2:19 PM
Defender said...

It's not about shooting SPORTS but about the right to affordable, effective training and practical materiel for self-defense and liberty preservation.
Putting animals before citizens -- using junk science, at that -- is not wise.
Will they mandate "safe dispoasl" of all that freshly-illegal lead ammunition?
It could lead to lead IN THE AIR.

8/25/2010 3:51 PM
Pat H. said...

The EPA should consider the fact that their field agents are almost always unarmed and in well marked government cars.

They should consider that extensively.

Then, perhaps, they'll consider this avenue unsound.

8/25/2010 6:09 PM
EJR914 said...

A lot of lead will be flying if they decide to go forth with this. Some back into the ground where it came from and some will be ingested into bodies.

8/26/2010 3:30 AM
RickR said...

Unintended Consequences:

Ammo manufactures go out of business.

No ammo to police or military.

Hmmmm....

8/26/2010 3:13 PM
Ned said...

At least Arizona puts its money where its mouth is.

A friend drew a mule deer tag on the Kaibab forest north of the Grand Canyon a few years ago.

Game and Fish sent him a box of Barnes solid copper ammo for his rifle.

He didn't use it because he was already using ammo that couldn't possibly put lead into the environment.

EPA cites alleged studies in Arizona and California regarding several dead birds - condors and bald eagles - both which eat carrion and garbage, and concludes that lead projectiles in gut piles are at the heart of the problem. That's the kind of research other government agencies would assault.

For example, if I have cancer and take a certain supplement and the cancer disappears, and the manufacturer of the product then claims due to my anecdotal evidence that the product cures cancer, they'll be run out of business by the FDA.

Government actors create any conclusion that works toward implementing their own goal, whatever that agenda may be. In this case it's clear. Make shooting cup and core or solid lead projectiles illegal.

BTW - it's a pretty big stretch to claim that lead shot in waterfowl flyways has the same effect of wildlife as does a .30 caliber slug which (more than likely) passes through a game animal.

These people aren't nuts - they know exactly what they're trying to achieve. They drew similarly erroneous conclusions about DDT, but that's relevant subject for a different blog.

8/26/2010 9:02 PM

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