EPA Considering Ban on Traditional Ammunition (NSSF)

[Hazcat]

NEWTOWN, Conn --(Ammoland.com)- All Gun Owners, Hunters and Shooters:

With the fall hunting season fast approaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey, is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) – a leading anti-hunting organization – to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition.

If the EPA approves the petition, the result will be a total ban on all ammunition containing lead-core components, including hunting and target-shooting rounds. The EPA must decide to accept or reject this petition by November 1, 2010, the day before the midterm elections.

Today, the EPA has opened to public comment the CBD petition. The comment period ends on October 31, 2010.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) — the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry – urges you to submit comment to the EPA opposing any ban on traditional ammunition. Remember, your right to choose the ammunition you hunt and shoot with is at stake.

The EPA has published the petition and relevant supplemental information as Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2010-0681. If you would like to read the original petition and see the contents of this docket folder, please click here. In order to go directly to the ‘submit a comment’ page for this docket number, please click here.

NSSF urges you to stress the following in your opposition:

    * There is no scientific evidence that the use of traditional ammunition is having an adverse impact on wildlife populations.
    * Wildlife management is the proper jurisdiction of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and the 50 state wildlife agencies.
    * 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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[JC5123]

So who is really behind this? My gut is telling me this is another covert attempt at disarming us. After all what good is a gun with no ammunition. And there are few of us that can afford the outrageously priced "green" ammo. Besides that as soon as you start using a steel or tungsten core, the anti's will try to label it armor piercing, and will try to ban that too.

I like where the article goes though. Think about all that "conservation" revenue that you are going to lose. 

[r_w]

My gut is telling me this is another covert attempt at disarming us.

Nothing covert about it.

[PegLeg45]

Steps to take:

   1. Submit comment online to the EPA.  
       http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#submitComment?R=0900006480b3974b

   2. Contact Lisa Jackson directly to voice your opposition to the ban:

Lisa P. Jackson
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 564-4700 (202) 564-4700    
Fax: (202) 501-1450
Email: jackson.lisa@epa.gov

3. Contact your congressman and senators and urge them to stop the EPA from banning ammunition.
To view a sample letter, click here.  
http://nssf.org/GovRel/news/traditional-ammo-sample-letter.cfm

Or copy and paste the following:

Sample Letter:

    Dear Congressman / Senator:

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering banning all traditional ammunition — ammunition containing lead-core components. This is something that would affect all hunters, target shooters and law enforcement.

    A petition filed with the EPA by several agenda-driven groups including the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), erroneously claims that the use of traditional ammunition poses a danger to (1) wildlife, in particular raptors such as bald eagles, that may feed on entrails or unrecovered game left in the field and (2) that there is a human health risk from consuming game harvested using traditional ammunition. Also falsely alleged in the petition is that the use of traditional ammunition by hunters is inconsistent with the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, Congress expressly exempted ammunition from being regulated as a “toxic substance.”

    As your constituent, I am urging you to do whatever you can to stop the EPA, which has no jurisdiction over such matters, from banning our ammunition. Please consider the following points:

    *There is no scientific evidence that the use of traditional ammunition is having an adverse impact on wildlife populations.

    *Wildlife management is the proper jurisdiction of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and the 50 state wildlife agencies.

    *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.

    Thank you for your time. I will be watching your actions on this matter closely.


Find your reps here:

http://www.house.gov/

http://www.senate.gov/

[Ulmus]

Done.  Thanks for the form letter, too. 

I'm going to think of a letter for the democratic side that will emphasize the hunting aspect that will be called upon even more in these hard economic times and the potential loss of revenue for the conservation part.

[Sponsor]

[TAB]

the epa can do basicly what ever they want.  they base policys on what people think.

[Jkwas]

Just posted this on the blogspot:

For everyones information. I tracked down one of the organizations listed as petitioners.
Association of Avian Veterinarians
P.O. Box 811720
Boca Raton, FL 33841
Head office in my hometown. I researched the address. It's a beachfront condo highrise. They don't even have an office!
Some woman in a High Rise is trying to deny us our rights. Sweet, Huh?

[twyacht]

IMHO, this is just to cause a "stir", than the EPA will make its rec's to Congress/BHO Admin, and they will graciously ALLOW US to continue to have & shoot traditional ammo, BUT,........


wait for it,.........




AN ADDED AMMO TAX! will be right along with it.

How much it will be? No One knows,....perhaps lump it in with "sin taxes" like cigs and alcohol.....

Cigs are $13 per pack in Manhattan. Maybe a box of .357 or 45 would double/triple???

Scheming political bastards..

[TAB]

IMHO, this is just to cause a "stir", than the EPA will make its rec's to Congress/BHO Admin, and they will graciously ALLOW US to continue to have & shoot traditional ammo, BUT,........


wait for it,.........




AN ADDED AMMO TAX! will be right along with it.

How much it will be? No One knows,....perhaps lump it in with "sin taxes" like cigs and alcohol.....

Cigs are $13 per pack in Manhattan. Maybe a box of .357 or 45 would double/triple???

Scheming political bastards..

you do know there is already a excise tax on guns and ammo,  its either 13 or 17% I can't remember.

[Dakotaranger]

The Bismarck Tribune on-Line:  http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/article_030a18f6-b228-11df-9cd2-001cc4c03286.html 

By FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press | Posted: Friday, August 27, 2010 5:09 pm | (1) Comments

Font Size:Default font sizeLarger font sizeWASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has denied a petition by five environmental groups to ban lead in hunting ammunition.

The agency said Friday that it did not have the authority to enact the ban under the Toxic Substances Control Act, as the groups had requested.

But the EPA says it's still reviewing another part of the petition, to ban lead fishing sinkers.

The agency informed one of the groups, American Bird Conservancy, of the decision in a letter.

The groups had argued in their petition that millions of animals are dying from eating lead-shot pellets or carcasses contaminated by lead. They say an estimated 10 million to 20 million birds and other animals die each year from lead poisoning in the U.S