No more 'lead poisoning': Regs, bans force end to lead bullet production

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[URL="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/18/end-line-for-lead-bullet-regulations-bans-force-switch-to-green-ammo/]Fox News: End of the line for the lead bullet? Regulations, bans force switch to 'green' ammo[/URL]​

When the last bullet-producing lead smelter closes its doors on Dec. 31, it will mark a major victory for those who say lead-based ammunition pollutes the environment, but others warn 'green' bullets will cost more, drive up copper prices and do little to help conservation

The bid to ban lead bullets, seen by some as harmful to the environment, started slowly more than a decade ago. But with two dozen states, including California, banning bullets made of the soft, heavy metal, the lead bullet's epitaph was already being written when the federal government finished it off.

First, the military announced plans to phase out lead bullets by 2018.

Then the federal Environmental Protection Agency, citing emissions, ordered the shutdown of the Doe Run company's lead smelter in Herculaneum, Mo., by year's end.

Switching to copper bullets is going to cost hunters and law enforcement more, and probably do diddly-squat for the environment. Your "green gestapo" -- otherwise known as the EPA -- at work, folks. Enjoy.

 

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[URL="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/18/end-line-for-lead-bullet-regulations-bans-force-switch-to-green-ammo/]Fox News: End of the line for the lead bullet? Regulations, bans force switch to 'green' ammo[/URL]​

Switching to copper bullets is going to cost hunters and law enforcement more, and probably do diddly-squat for the environment. Your "green gestapo" -- otherwise known as the EPA -- at work, folks. Enjoy.

I'm trying not to laugh. Consider the irony. The vast majority of bullets I shoot in the field are designed specifically to 'harm' the environment as in deer, turkey and coyotes. They are more than harmful. They are lethal on purpose.

Other than that I don't get the damages the environment argument. Lead is on the Periodic Table (Pb) between Thallium and Bismuth. It occurs naturally in the environment.

 

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I'm trying not to laugh. Consider the irony. The vast majority of bullets I shoot in the field are designed specifically to 'harm' the environment as in deer, turkey and coyotes. They are more than harmful. They are lethal on purpose.

Other than that I don't get the damages the environment argument. Lead is on the Periodic Table (Pb) between Thallium and Bismuth. It occurs naturally in the environment.

Excellent point. It escaped me in my seething anger over the fact next deer season may cost me more.

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Excellent point. It escaped me in my seething anger over the fact next deer season may cost me more.

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Three bullets go in the target to verify the scope. Then one bullet per critter. I added 700 grains of lead to our local environment. Wait, wait, wait!!! I didn't add a single grain. It came out of the ground. I just put it back. :thumbs:

 

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I added 700 grains of lead to our local environment. Wait, wait, wait!!! I didn't add a single grain. It came out of the ground. I just put it back. :thumbs:

Exactly. I get a kick out of people that get overly concerned about the use of landfills. "We're filling up landfills with stuff." Where do these people think this stuff came from to begin with? And what's wrong with filling up a landfill? Isn't that what they're made for?

 

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Folks, these are the same people that put the ZERO into office TWICE!!!!!
Need I say more???:tear: