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If They Can Ban Ammunition, They Received’t Must Ban Weapons
Those that despise the Second Modification by no means appear to cease. To this point, they’ve been unable to utterly ban firearms, so their newest assault on our Rights entails banning generally used ammunition.
As GOA warned our members final yr, step one on this course of entails the Biden Administration’s plans to ban lead ammunition on eight Nationwide Wildlife Refuges within the japanese United States. This primary spherical of bans is not going to take impact till 2026, however it’s common data within the nation’s capital that this Administration doesn’t intend to cease with these eight areas.
You will need to notice from the onset that this has nothing to do with the 30-year-old ban on using lead ammunition for searching waterfowl, and no main pro-hunting or pro-Second Modification teams are preventing to alter that.
What’s at stake now could be an entire ban on all lead ammunition for each searching and recreation taking pictures on federal lands!
That is a minimum of the third try by politicians to ban lead ammunition within the final decade. In the course of the Obama Administration, the Middle for Organic Variety and over 100 anti-hunting and anti-Second Modification teams petitioned the Environmental Safety Company (EPA) to ban lead ammunition, however the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the District of Columbia dominated the company lacked the authority to take action. Undeterred, the unconventional anti-gunners looked for different avenues to push their agenda.
Simply earlier than leaving workplace, Obama’s Inside Division tried to ban lead ammunition on lands managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (about 95 million land acres). Nonetheless, Trump’s newly confirmed Inside Secretary, Ryan Zinke, shortly reversed that call quickly after taking workplace in March 2017.
The anti-gunners have realized from previous, failed efforts, so this present effort is extra discreet and begins on small acreages the place most hunters and leisure shooters is not going to be impacted or take discover.
Particularly, what the Biden Administration is proposing is a complete ban on lead ammunition on this primary group of eight federal lands, which, when expanded sooner or later to different federal lands (about 650 million floor acres or 30% of the US) will destroy searching and leisure goal taking pictures by making these sports activities too pricey for the common American.
Proponents of lead ammunition bans declare this ammo harms human well being and wildlife populations. Nonetheless, research by the Well being Departments in various states have proven no conclusive proof of great sickness or dying of people brought on by consuming recreation taken with lead ammunition. Most hunters know tips on how to take away meat broken by lead bullets or shot! In most research, hunters and their households had lead ranges much like the common American.
When addressing wildlife considerations, lead ban proponents usually level to the endangered California condor. California banned lead ammunition in 2007 to guard the condors, and whereas compliance with the ban was 99% in response to the state’s Division of Fish and Wildlife, follow-up analysis in recent times has proven lead ranges in condors are the identical or HIGHER than when the ban was applied.
Outcomes from the California condor saga inform us that condors are getting lead from sources apart from bullets or shot. There are quite a few non-ammunition sources of lead in the environment, and the truth is that no research have confirmed ammunition-based lead has a inhabitants degree impression on terrestrial wildlife species.
So, what is absolutely happening right here?
The actual purpose right here is to cost individuals out of participation in searching and taking pictures sports activities! It’s that easy!
Alternate options to steer ammunition are sometimes 2-4 occasions costlier, so banning lead ammo will drastically scale back participation for a lot of Individuals. An elevated price could be notably dangerous for ladies, single dad and mom, and minorities – demographic teams with rising taking pictures participation charges in lots of states.
Whereas the federal authorities controls over 30% of the land in America, the dimensions of those areas alone doesn’t inform the entire story. Hundreds of thousands of Individuals can solely hunt or goal shoot on federal lands and don’t have any different place to pursue the sports activities they love. With out entry to those federal lands, giant percentages of hunters and shooters could be denied leisure alternatives underneath a pricey lead ammo ban.
Furthermore, if profitable with these bans on federal lands, we are able to totally count on one other effort from anti-Second Modification forces to institute a lead ammunition ban on non-public lands in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later! This may successfully ship lead ammunition to the dustbin of historical past!
Gun Homeowners of America has been on the forefront of exposing this newest assault on searching and leisure taking pictures and dealing with members of Congress to do one thing about it.
Lately, I wrote an Opinion Piece for the Washington Instances explaining the lead ban scheme, the pseudo-science behind it, and telling hunters and leisure shooters how they’ll become involved (click on right here). Within the piece, you possibly can learn extra particulars in regards to the scheme and the way Senator Steve Daines [R-MT] has launched laws to dam the ban. GOA can be bringing extra to your consideration in regards to the Congressional effort to combat this within the very close to future.
HOWEVER, THERE IS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO NOW TO HELP!
Till August 22, the Federal Authorities is required to take public touch upon the lead ban proposal. Feedback can be compiled, and GOA can use these feedback to let members of Congress know that the American public doesn’t assist these efforts to infringe on our Rights.
All hunters, leisure shooters, and actually anybody involved about this infringement on our liberties may also help by sending feedback telling the Federal Authorities that you simply don’t assist efforts to ban widespread ammunition primarily based on weak science. Take Action Here!
Whereas the present ban on eight federally-owned lands (largely within the northeast) could not impression thousands and thousands of Individuals in the present day, the banning of lead ammunition must be addressed head on earlier than it takes steam and is expanded to impression us all.
ACT NOW by clicking the TAKE ACTION BUTTON and let the Biden Administration know you oppose efforts to ban widespread ammunition primarily based on unsound science.
Gun Homeowners of America will preserve you knowledgeable in regards to the lead ammunition ban and how one can interact within the Congressional battle within the very close to future.
Please act in the present day to assist shield searching and taking pictures sports activities for us and our future generations!
P.S. Please act in the present day to ship a message to the Biden Administration and shield our potential to make use of widespread and inexpensive ammunition, and please be looking ahead to updates about Second Modification and Constitutional points within the coming weeks and months as GOA fights to guard and/or advance our Rights!
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