Environazis want to ban lead from bullets and fishing weights

My disdain for the environmentalists grows worse with each report, petition or suit that is filed, costing this country jobs, and much more. I am all for saving some old growth forests, cleaning up our water, air and soil but these far left environazis keep on taking one little piece after another. We cannot even drill, dam, or mine anymore, it seems. The seeds that were planted in the late 1950s and during the 1960s, 1970s have sprouted into evil organizations, lobbyists and domestic terrorist groups like Earth First!


Now comes this petition to ban lead in bullets and fishing weights. The two groups that submitted this petition state they are not anti-fishing or anti-hunting. Yeah, sure, and I am liberal who voted for the mullah in the White House, wants open borders, amnesty and all 2nd amendment rights made against the law. This is another attempt by this administration to strip away out 2nd amendment rights. I live about 15 miles away from the Nosler Manufacturing  Company.  Nosler produces some of the best ammunition and guns in the world. After hearing about this they went on record against these petitions and warned that they would result in lost jobs, increased costs for ammunition and guns. As to the petitions themselves? There has been no direct scientific evidence that lead from bullets and fishing weights is causing an environmental problem anywhere. From Chattanoogan.com. They want to take our guns away, and the demosocialistacrats will do this any way they can.

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Groups Petition EPA to Remove Lead from Hunting, Fishing

A coalition of groups lead by the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban "Lead Shot, Bullets and Fishing Sinkers" under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

Their formal petition gives the EPA 90 days to decide whether or not to ban the "manufacture, professing and distribution in commerce of lead shot, bullets and fishing sinkers." The petition says that while the government has implemented regulations to reduce exposure of human beings to lead in a variety of applications, lead ammunition and lost lead fishing tackle are "uncontrolled and lead remains widely encountered and distributed in the environment from these sources." The petition lists "significant" amounts of lead that end up in aquatic environments from lost or discarded fishing tackle, including lures, sinkers, lead core fishing line, downrigger cannonballs, weights, and a variety of fishing traps and nets that employ the use of lead.

With the wide variety of non-lead, nontoxic replacements for fishing tackle and firearms projectiles, the petition asks that the EPA mandate the removal of lead from those applications.

In a teleconference regarding their petition yesterday, representatives from the two groups stressed that their petition was not anti-hunting or fishing. Rather, they characterized their action as purely environmental.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation has taken exception with that characterization, calling the petition another assault on traditional ammo and fishing tackle.

You can read the petition to the EPA in its entirety by clicking here.

Original article can be found here