USFWS directive prohibits lead ammo use on Service lands

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https://www.fws.gov/policy/do219.html
DIRECTOR'S ORDER NO. 219

Subject: USE OF NONTOXIC AMMUNITION AND FISHING TACKLE

Sec. 1 What is the purpose of this Order? The purpose of this Order is to establish procedures and a timeline for expanding the use of nontoxic ammunition and fishing tackle on Service lands, waters, and facilities and for certain types of hunting and fishing regulated by the Service outside of Service lands, waters, and facilities.
http://www.nssfblog.com/nssf-calls-foul ... mmunition/
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industries, condemned the decision by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe banning the use of traditional ammunition on Service lands in just five years.

The parting shot, Director’s Order 219 , was issued on the final full day of President Obama’s administration. The last-minute action revives an effort the administration undertook eight years ago to ban the use of traditional ammunition.

“This directive is irresponsible and driven not out of sound science but unchecked politics,” said Lawrence Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel. “The timing alone is suspect. This directive was published without dialogue with industry, sportsmen and conservationists. The next director should immediately rescind this, and instead create policy based upon scientific evidence of population impacts with regard to the use of traditional ammunition.”
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Re: USFWS directive prohibits lead ammo use on Service lands

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There are a couple things going on here.

First, when we go to the nssf site, we never see the word "lead." We see "traditional ammunition." As soon as someone has to change the name of the thing being discussed, you know they have a weak case.

Second, there are no teeth to the order. Check it out: lots of encouragement. No bans. What it does is to "establish procedures and a timeline for expanding the use of nontoxic ammunition and fishing tackle". By Jan 2022, you have to be using non toxic bullets. The Act wants to help states expand the use of non toxic ammo. And if nothing is done, the whole thing expires in 2018. OH, hurt me.

So, kiddies, don't set your hair alight just yet.

Commentary:

Only a doofus would deny that lead is toxic. If you're a good enough shot and you stalk correctly, you're going to fire one bullet. Now, practice is necessary, but you get to use less expensive ammo to practice. Then you use three expensive bullets to reset your scope. You make notes.

Quitchyer whinnin', folks of the "traditional" hunting bullet. It's not necessary to use lead. You can. But it's not necessary. Those extra sixteen bucks a year you'll spend on those few copper bullets is a drop in the bucket. Use two stone sinkers instead of one lead one, eh.

That being said, folks will cry "freedom." Yeah. You've been free up until now to poison non-retrieved game and to poison carrion birds. You've been free to sprinkle America's waterways with leetle lead balls. That means you've been free, up until now, to plague future generations with toxic land. Not cool.

Make the change. It's not that expensive, and it's good karma. Unless you're all about sprinkling lead dust on your Wheaties every morning, you know you have to make the change.

On the other side of the coin, if nothing is done, the Act will expire. Yet during that time it is possible shooting lead ammo on some public lands will be banned. If nothing is done. Note language in the Act showing it can be revoked.

I think this was a feel good thing, signifying nothing.

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