Potential ban of lead core projectiles

[Lynn Otto]

Has anyone else read this item, it's a daily bulletin on Accurate Shooter.

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/201 ... d-bullets/

This would affect us in a fairly big way, firstly with loss of supply of ammunition and probably more profoundly if and/or when our government follows suit. Cross your fingers that this doesn't get passed.

[AlanF]

Sounds like the result of lobbying by Barnes (lead free) Bullets .

[Razer]

I wonder what the military think about this, or even if the clowns that keep dreaming up these weird ideas, thought about that. The battlefields of WW1 have the greatest concentration of lead core bullets in the world and I remember reading a scientific report written some years ago which encompassed these areas. The report said there was no measurable level of lead residue anywhere that posed a problem to crops,animals, or humanity.
Some people just have too much time to spare if this is all they can think of. If they are so concerned about the earth may I suggest that they support tree planting by offering themselves as "organic" fertiliser by jumping in the hole before the tree is planted
Ray
28/08/10, UPDATE. The US EPA have rejected the submission by the "environmentalist" to ban lead projectiles . They are still trying to get lead fishing sinkers banned. Must be bored to tears