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Getting the Lead Out: Lead Ammunition Ban

by Outdoor Hub on October 17, 2011

Getting The Lead Out: Lead Ammunition Ban

The ruling to ban lead ammunition by the EPA has not yet been finalized, after sparking the debate more than one year ago. Some wildlife protection groups, including some hunters, are pressing the EPA to ban all lead ammunition nation-wide for fear of endangering wildlife that consumes lead bullets. While others say a blanket ban is unnecessary because lead consumption by wildlife is not a significant risk.

What do you think about banning lead ammo? Is it a temporary solution? Or would you happily give up lead to protect wildlife and maybe your right to hunt? Should lead laws be limited to specific areas?

Tell us your opinion as we strike up this weeks Campfire Discussion.

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  • Sluiceman2004

    This ban proposal is total BS. Hunters have been using lead for centuries, yet this is such a problem now? This is only another small step towards banning gun ownership.

  • NSSF11

    Important Facts You Need to Know about Traditional Ammunition:
    * There is no scientific evidence that the use of traditional
    ammunition is having an adverse impact on wildlife populations requiring
    a change in current regulation. Regulating the methods and implements
    for the taking of game is best managed by the wildlife biologists in the
    state fish and game agencies and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
    not the EPA.

    * A 2008 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    on blood lead levels of North Dakota hunters confirmed that consuming
    game harvested with traditional ammunition does not pose a human health
    risk.

    * A ban on traditional ammunition would have a negative impact on
    wildlife conservation. The federal excise tax that manufacturers pay on
    the sale of the ammunition (11 percent) is a primary source of wildlife
    conservation funding. The bald eagle’s recovery, considered to be a
    great conservation success story, was made possible and funded by
    hunters using traditional ammunition, the very ammunition organizations
    like the CBD are now demonizing.

    * Recent statistics from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
    show that from 1981 to 2006 the number of breeding pairs of bald eagles
    in the United States increased 724 percent. And much like the bald
    eagle, raptor populations throughout the United States are soaring.

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  • LiliQ

    It is crap and designed and intended to render illegal all old ammo. Try shooting those Civil War rifles with non lead

  • End

    RIDICULOUS!!!!  DON’T BAN LEAD IN BULLETS
    AFFECT NOT ONLY HUNTERS BUT SASS SHOOTERS, ETC.

  • Rmosier

    Yet another disquised attempt to limit acces to arms and ammo. They just keep finding ways to attack the 2nd ammendment. Isn’t lead mined from “The wild”? If this attempt doesn’t pass, the next thing will be NOISE POLUTION.

  • Maniac

    Total Bull Crap for sure! Those people pushing for this ridiculous Ban need to find something worth while to spend their time and money on.

  • Markb4070

    banning lead ammunition is just another way for the gungrabbers to control us.

    besides as hunting goes, if you ban lead form bullets, they wouldnt exapand and now youd have a wounded “bambi” running around.

    IM FED UP WITH THE “GREEN PEOPLE” trying to decide how I should live my life.

    Im going to continue to burn diesel in  my truck, pee in the woods, shoot my guns and LEAD bullets at animals with antlers.

     I really dont care what happens to their great great great grand kids.. cause I wont be here to help.

    Personally, I say legalize pot and that will keep most of the “green  people” busy enough buying doritos that they wont have any interest bothering us!

    Plus im leaving all my sun screen to the GREEN PEOPLE

  • doctorNo

    I’m all for uranium projectile.  They work well for the military and have more downrange energy/

  • Lewiswoody

    I highly oppose banning lead ammunition.  I’m a hunter, shooter and reload my ammo.  This is a mis-informed risk generated by groups opposed to hunting in general as another way to harass and force more hunters out of the woods and fields.  One thing we could do is save all the lead ammo as personal protection if they do decide to ban hunting with it.