WFB: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe, an Obama appointee, ordered a new ammunition ban for certain federal lands on Thursday–his last full day in office.
The ban, which took effect immediately, eliminates the use of lead-based ammunition on federal lands like national parks and wildlife refuges, as well as any other land administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service. The ban is expected to have a major impact on much of the hunting that takes place on federal lands across the United States as lead-based ammunition is widely legal and used throughout the country.
Ashe said the order was necessary to protect wildlife from exposure to lead. more
Steel shot on migratory bird flyways has been in effect for a long damn time. Lead bullets are encapsulated with a copper alloy to not foul the barrels of high velocity rifles. for all intents and purposes, lead added to the environment has already been addressed ad nauseum.
It’s called ‘Civil Disobedience’. You should try it.
Whatever it takes to fuck with people.
Brads gonna shit when he sees this.
California banned lead shot while hunting waterfowl a long time ago. It seems some rocket surgeon determined Condors egg shells we getting thin due to lead shot. Well guess what? The California Condors egg shells are still thin and I’m still shooting ducks with steel shot that patterns like crap. And is more expensive.
mrhanoverfist
I shat two years ago when Cali banned it on all State and Federal land. There’s zero science.
Mr Ashe. I didn’t vote for you. I don’t know who you are nor do I care to.
Kindly take your regulation, fold it for
Maximum comfort and satisfaction, lubricate it
Generously.
You know what comes next. I don’t have to spell it out for you, do I?
Gee, Mr. Ashe, pray tell, what type of ammunition will NPS law enforcement use in light of this ban?
Or are they, in typical Democrat hypocrisy, exempt from this ban?
“Ashe said the order was necessary to protect wildlife from exposure to lead.”
Ashe, you fucktard, you’ve been in office since June 2011. If this lead issue is so important, you really missed your mark, dumbass, to wait until today to enact this faux regulation.
As the TPB say,
FUCK OFF.
Trump is going to get writers cramp undoing all of Obamas’ executive orders.
Will this ban on lead ammo also be observed by the Marijuana Growers, Illegal Aliens and Gang Bangers? Inquiring minds want to know if this ban was ever discussed with congress.
“Trump is going to get writers cramp undoing all of Obamas’ executive orders.”
Yep, and somebody’s gotta go back and get a shitload of pens.
@Bad_Brad, they tried attributing it to the carrion that the condors were eating that had been shot. However, that theory was ‘shot’ to hell. It was discovered that their range has naturally occurring lead in the soil that they cannot avoid. But do you think that study was picked up and publicized? Nope, back page. Much in thanks to ASPCA who also wanted/wants to ban all lead fishing weights.
Totally off topic. Has anyone heard why FREEREPUBLIC has been offline today.
Mr. Ashe should be looking into what is necessary to protect himself from exposure to lead. Or steel, or copper.
I hope nobody shoots this Ass, he’s not worth the bullet. Now, piano wire, that’s reusable and therefore “green”!
However it is important to note that there are those that no matter the boundary that they are within, coupled with and/or dependent upon their actions, may still succumb to lead poisoning regardless of a piece of paper.
BigGun,
It’s happened before. Kind of fun watching Trump takes swipes at the political class today
On waterfowl. I’m all for steel, bismuth or whatever they’re calling it these days. Water is different than soil concerning lead, though soil leaches into water.
Also, unleaded loads in a blind have made for more memorable moments.
Seriously? How the fcuk could you miss that goose? It was like a 747 buzzing the blind!
old_oaks,
Really? In Cali we hunt over rice fields. Have since the early 1900. Why aren’t people dying? Like BigGun said, it’s already in the soil so WTF?
Depleted uranium is OK then?
Brad, I’m one to think; If it’s here and I’m made of it, it should be okay.
But as a fisherman and migratory bird hunter, I’m by extension a conservationist. I’ve learned to adapt in these situations and even had more fun doing so.
By no means am I lead ban boy. I buy it every time I see a deal!
Old Oak, I get it, I really do. And I agree if I thought there was any valid science. On the flip side of the coin how many ducks on a windy day did you sail due to shit ammo? What’s that worth?
Uncle_Al,
I got you. POS gonna be living in the public
soon. They think us little people forget.
@BB I understand the lead shot is detrimental to jumping frogs in Calaveras county.
I’m in my layout blind right now waiting for a dumb goose. I can’t count how many ducks or geese I have missed because of the ban on lead for waterfowl.
they claim the waterfowl ingest the shot that is lying on the ground when they graze in fields and it gets ground up in their craw, which is an organ just above the stomach of birds.
lead shot and bullet fragments pass though a mammals digestive system with negligible negative effects.
Lead OXIDE was used in old style paint, the oxide is the culprit, not free lead. Lead oxide is sweet, kids eat the chips because ghetto dwellers won’t buy any paint to overcoat.
The whole lead scare is based on PbO, not Pb.
EPA scare tactics, not based on biology.
Like Jethro correctly points out, free lead passes through largely unabsorbed.
So much of the obfuscation relies on an ignorant public, a public made ignorant by the usual suspects.
I wish Trump would sign one executive order to overrule them all. One order that simply states: “All of O’stupids executive orders for the last eight years are null and void, they are not to be enforced, all federal agencies will immediately rescind, retract, and destroy any and all rules, regulations, actions, and litigation based on any executive order signed by O’stupid.
this is more proof that the Filthy Mohammedan Savage hates us and hates USA.