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EPA wants to ban lead ammo.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:53 pm
by Glen
I have no idea if this is true or not but I suspect it is. I went ahead & posted my reply to it. I hope it helps.
http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/201 ... d-bullets/
Re: EPA wants to ban lead ammo.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:13 pm
by Clint E
Glen i look at it like this its a back door way to attack the hunters IMO.
Re: EPA wants to ban lead ammo.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:00 pm
by Wrangler John
The EPA denied the petition from the loonies today August 27, 2010. Here's the link to the letter of denial:
http://www.epa.gov/oppt/chemtest/pubs/O ... sponse.pdf
This was posted on Calguns.net today.
They will check into lead fishing sinkers though.
Re: EPA wants to ban lead ammo.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 3:21 am
by Glen
Thank You for the update John.
Re: EPA wants to ban lead ammo.
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 7:41 pm
by RowdyYates
Wow, Glen. "I didn't know if this was true or not but I posted it anyway" ???? Turns out it wasn't true. With all due respect: America has enough problems without having people stirring folks up with problems that don't exist. The EPA never did "want to ban lead ammo"; they were approached by some groups who did. I have to answer to the EPA on my job, and can attest first-hand to some of the chicken----, redundant, and silly laws/rules they force on citizens, but I don't like to see anyone falsley accused - regardless of whether I'm "for" or "against" that party. (I might even give the EPA a teeny bit of credit if they help preserve wilderness - including hunting and fishing areas - from excessive urban sprawl.) Incidentally, the EPA was the formed under the (GOP) Nixon administration; would bet that Theodore Roosevelt would have approved.
Thought this was a .204 forum, not a political one...
Re: EPA wants to ban lead ammo.
Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:50 am
by Bayou City Boy
Good post, Rowdy......
Sometimes the internet gets to lookin' a lot like The Tuesday Morning Garden Club...... A lot of manure gets spread, even when its not needed...
JMO, of course.... -BCB
Re: EPA wants to ban lead ammo.
Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:51 pm
by futuretrades
Unfortunately this was not only on the internet. I seen it on fox news I believe on thursday last week.
Re: EPA wants to ban lead ammo.
Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:01 pm
by Bayou City Boy
futuretrades wrote:Unfortunately this was not only on the internet. I seen it on fox news I believe on thursday last week.
The reports I saw on Fox said nothing about the "EPA wanting to ban lead". The reports I saw correctly stated that the EPA was being petitioned by outside parties to consider the ban and that it was doubtful that it fell under their jurisdiction to do so as the NRA was arguing in briefs presented to the EPA.
The EPA simply agreed with that analysis and rejected the petition..
Stating that "the EPA wants to ban lead" is a far cry from the fact that they were petitioned to consider a ban by outside environmental parties not a part of the EPA..
-BCB