EPA Ban

NSSF is springing into action, as the public comment period opens on EPA considering a regulation that will ban all traditional lead ammunition. This would basically end the shooting sports as we know it. Remember this is a no-win situation for us, because bullets made of materials other than lead are often considered armor piercing by law. Copper is your basic material, and copper is expensive, and has much poorer performance properties than lead.

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I have over 10,000 rounds stashed away. It's going to take me a long time to turn that all in to the government.

You can tell these maggots learned a lot in law school: don't ban the guns, ban the bullets. That's freaking brilliant. I'd like to meet the guy who came up with that idea, and rip his lungs out.

In a swift and unexpected decision, the Environmental Protection Agency today rejected a petition from environmental groups to ban the use of lead in bullets and shotgun shells, claiming it doesn't have jurisdiction to weigh on the controversial Second Amendment issue. The decision came just hours after the Drudge Report posted stories from Washington Whispers and the Weekly Standard about how gun groups were fighting the lead bullet ban.

The EPA had planned to solicit public responses to the petition for two months, but this afternoon issued a statement rejecting a 100-page request from the Center for Biological Diversity, the American Bird Conservancy, and three other groups for a ban on lead bullets, shot, and fishing sinkers. The agency is still considering what to do about sinkers.

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Reminded me a lot of the "Cuban Missile Crisis" in October 1962.

There is absolutely no good reason to piss-off as many as 100 million armed men and women like that. It is a very dangerous thing to do and can have unexpected, unpredictable results.

One would think that in an organization the size of our federal government, they could put together at least one team of smart people to review shit that's about to be thrown over the fence to the citizens. In the corporate world we called this a "red team". Their job was to tear into the document or manual looking for any way it could be mis-interpreted, confusing, offensive, etc. More than once it saved expensive mistakes, ill-will and embarrassment.

If our Constitution had a provision for a recall vote or a "no-confidence" vote, Washington D.C. would be a ghost-town tomorrow.

Safe your weapons and stand down, but stay alert.