Yes. I have some Barnes MRX bullets that are mostly gilded metal with tungsten bases. The sticker price for 20 .308 bullets was cough, cough $35... six years ago. No wonder they discontinued them. You can buy 100 good jacketed lead bullets for that, well at least until the bandwagon enviro-airheads (who likely don't shoot much) sell us out.
Just when you thought the new gun bill was our greatest threat.......
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Yes. I have some Barnes MRX bullets that are mostly gilded metal with tungsten bases. The sticker price for 20 .308 bullets was cough, cough $35... six years ago. No wonder they discontinued them. You can buy 100 good jacketed lead bullets for that, well at least until the bandwagon enviro-airheads (who likely don't shoot much) sell us out.
I don't think it is a terrible idea for you to buy non lead projectiles if you want them. I think it is a terrible idea for you not to oppose this nanny-state interference from a bunch of bureaucrats looking for something to justify their sinecures.
pisces-guy
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I can see it for shotguns, adding upland game birds hunting as a non toxic shot requirement, but a big game animal is usually taken with a single bullet, so why mess with the status quo for rifle ammunition?
Though I haven't read every comment in this thread. I haven't seen anyone mention a sport that uses cast lead pretty exclusively. There are a lot of western action shooters and re-creationists using solid lead cast bullets in rifled barrels. Then there is the antique crowd and those who make modern reproductions of historical firearms and that repair the old ones. In aggregate they use a lot of ammo as well and many of those style of guns would become complete safe queens. And yes they are used a lot and even hunted with. I engrave those so I am very familiar with that community.
I'm definitly against banning anything, I'd help clean up ranges if it came down to it.
Cameron SS
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That was a joke. There is no such bill.
That is basically what all this will come to. Gun ranges having to clean up lead, or use an environmentally sustainable alternative. I am also against a lead ban, and if the gun community wants to avoid one we need to get on board with properly managing our waste
Trimmer 905
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First,they banned lead shot for waterfowl. Now,there's a concerted effort to ban lead sinkers and lures for fishing. Why are we surprised there's rumblings to ban all forms of lead ammo for rifles and big game hunting? It's the natural progression of the nanny staters.
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Banning things is a simple minded solution for simple minded people. But that is not to suggest that we aren't polluting our food supply, and that we should't do something about it.
Amusing. Yet the production of lead acid batteries continues to thrive. So by association, all automotive shops, wreckers, car lots, car manufacturers, retailers (looking at YOU Costco), are all implicit in the attack on children's development.
Yet, lets ramp up the imports on highly processed foods and contaminants from China. *sigh*
Yet, lets ramp up the imports on highly processed foods and contaminants from China. *sigh*
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It's just another pot shot at ruining our beloved shooting sports and hunting. You give them an inch and they take a mile, so don't give them an inch.
Pollution from other sources like that probably far out weight the shooting sport, I'd like to see a side by side comparison of numbers.
I shoot trap competitively: Just move that decimal place two spots to the right, and it might approximate how much I shoot each year. That doesn't include the heavy 500gr BPCR bullets I also cast.
As soon as lead is banned, half or more of the different sport shooting disciplines will wither and die.
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Steel core still contains lead, plus steel core is banned at most ranges. Why ban guns when you can ban the sale of ammunition?
Same as with C-71. Why confiscate guns when you can force people to register them, prohibit their use, and ensure their destruction when the owner dies? The liberals are playing the long game here, this is a big deal.
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