Gotta hand it to the gun-grabbers, this is actually fairly clever:
http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#documentDetail?R=0900006480b37fc2
Petition to the Environmental Protection Agency to Ban Lead Shot, Bullets, and Fishing Sinkers Under the Toxic Substances Control Act
It is of course akin to leaving “freedom of the press” intact but banning ink or paper.
Yes, there are non-lead options available for bullets and shot. But not being a reloader myself, I can’t claim to have ever actually heard of reloaders (who cast their own bullets) who reload with much of anything *but* lead.
I don’t know if this will get anywhere, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it does. If there’s one the the government – and that includes the EPA – loves, it’s to grow in scope, power and reach. And banning lead ammo would fill that need niceley: hundreds of millions of American citizens would be left with ammo that they’d get arrested for firing.
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Lead is already illegal in Minnesota for fishing lures or sinkers or for duck hunting. Not that it’s enforced, because existing stuff in grandfathered.
I have been telling people this was coming for 25 years, and everyone just laughed. Oop, here it is.
Oh, and they are free to come get my ammo, I’ll merrily givde it to them, in 3-5 rd bursts and single shots.
Let’s talk about tough guys here…..
@hotel – Please stop playing tough guy. You’re not impressing anyone, and doing it on a public forum is stupid, anyway.
No playing, sweety, just stating the facts
People threaten to commit acts of violence upon public officials all the time in response to perceived or actual loss of freedoms. There are two things to note:
1) Very few actually follow through
2) The threat is itself illegal, or leans heavily towards it.
Threatening to kill people if they try to take your ammo is not exactly a spactacualr strategy for winning the debate about taking your ammo.
So ITG-syndrome is at best counter-productive on many matters.