EPA considering ban on lead!

[Duhbob]

All Gun Owners, Hunters and Shooters:
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.


The EPA has published the petition and relevant supplemental information as Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2010-0681. (If you would like to read the original petition and see the contents of this docket folder, please see the aforementioned website).
The dems are at it again.
Bob

 

[CEHollier]

I wish the EPA would ban stupidity.

 

[Gus McCrae]

I wish the EPA would ban stupidity.

Prove that it causes pollution.

 

[kdoske]

Yeah I hear they suggesting it be replaced it with another metal called Cadmium..............

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/cadmium/index.html

 

[kpm]

Just when I think there is no way this administration can outdo the last stupid potential policy or ban... At what point do people say NO? Enough. I can't wait to vote the next few elections.

 

[Mjolnir]

Yeah I hear they suggesting it be replaced it with another metal called Cadmium..............

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/cadmium/index.html

Isn't cadmium a carcinogen??

Not that they give a damn about us dying off...

 

[Golden Dragon]

http://www.bayoushooter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42203

 

[Doug.38PR]

I wish the State of Louisiana would say: "Screw the EPA, their authority unConstitutional and is hereby nullified. You don't like lead ammo...come and take it...we've got a whole state full of crackshot hunters with high powered rifles who know the woods"

 

[nola_]

Will this trigger another ammo buying spree? Hmm

 

[gbundersea]

Denied

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2578809/posts

The EPA denied the request to ban lead in ammo and fishing gear.

I must say I'm surprised!

 

[artabr]

Washington Times op-ed on the subject.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/27/gun-owners-dodge-the-bullet-ban/


The Supreme Court's recent McDonald and Heller decisions have thus far thwarted the gun grabbers' best efforts by upholding the individual's right to own firearms. Late Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency added another victory to the list as it shot down an attempt to undermine the Second Amendment through the regulation of bullets. On Aug. 3, the American Bird Conservancy and groups like Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban traditional lead ammunition as a "health risk."

Obviously, the argument was not that recipients of a 45-caliber slug might suffer from lead poisoning. Instead, these activists asserted that bullets weighing less than half an ounce might hit the ground and somehow poison the planet. It just isn't true. The Clinton administration's EPA looked into the issue and found no cause for concern. The claim that "lead based ammunition is hazardous is in error," EPA senior science adviser William Marcus wrote in a Dec. 25, 1999, letter. Lead on the soil surface "does not break down," he explained. It "does not pose an environmental or human hazard. ... In water lead acts much the same as in soil."

Even eating an animal that has been shot by lead ammunition poses no risk to human health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted blood tests on 736 hunters and reported in 2008 that lead ammunition produced very small changes in lead exposure, with concentrations well below CDC benchmark levels of concern.

On the other hand, the proposed restrictions would have caused real harm. Ammunition containing lead, a dense and heavy metal, has significant advantages, such as greater stopping power and more accuracy. Lighter ammunition has less momentum and over a longer distance will be less accurate. Using nonlead ammunition in guns designed for lead causes them to wear out much more quickly, and the ammunition itself is generally twice as expensive.

This time, however, the EPA did not make its decision on the merits of the argument. The agency instead agreed with an Aug. 20 filing from the National Rifle Association that explained how Congress had specifically excluded ammunition from the Toxic Substances Control Act which governs potentially harmful materials such as lead. This failed attempt to harass law-abiding gun owners using an unelected bureaucracy underscores the importance of perpetual vigilance in preserving the most important of constitutional rights.




Art

 

[Yrdawg]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2578809/posts

The EPA denied the request to ban lead in ammo and fishing gear.

I must say I'm surprised!

Maybe we're making a difference....EPA admitting they didn't have the authority to cowtow to 5 wacko-enviro groups...thats kinda cool rat there

 

[TomTerrific]

Shoot, I was looking forward to using spent uranium bullets.

 

[swamper]

http://www.epa.gov/oppt/chemtest/pubs/Owens_Petition_Response.pdf

 

[Duhbob]

Thanks SWAMPER the link was great.
Nice to see the EPA sweating bullets not banning bullets. Ya' know damn well we made a difference!!!

 

[LACamper]

Isn't cadmium a carcinogen??

Not that they give a damn about us dying off...

Gee that would suck. Can you imagine surviving a gunshot wound only to die of cancer because of it?