In its final attack on gun owners, the Obama administration moved to ban traditional lead ammo on federal grounds and waterways on its last full day in office.
The ban, which includes cheap bullets and common fishing tackle, can be repealed by the Trump administration and was immediately condemned as an attack on outdoors people and rural life.
"This directive is irresponsible and driven not out of sound science but unchecked politics," said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
"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."
In a statement, it said, "Like so much of what Barack Obama claimed as 'accomplishments,' it will hopefully amount to little more than a symbolic act of defiance by a president with little of substance to show for his eight years in office."
The Fish and Wildlife Service ban is aimed at protecting birds, animals and fish from lead poisoning. It is to begin now and cover all federal lands by 2022 unless revised.
But it apparently came as a surprise to state agencies working with FWS to study the impact of lead bullets and weights.
The association that represents state agencies, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, for example, ripped the 11th hour move as an attack on hunters, anglers and life in rural America.
A statement from Association President Nick Wiley said:
"This action flies squarely in the face of a long and constructive tradition of states working in partnership with the service to effectively manage fish and wildlife resources." He adds, "the Association views this Order as a breach of trust and deeply disappointing given that it was a complete surprise and there was no current dialogue or input from state fish and wildlife agencies prior to issuance. It does a disservice to hunters and anglers, the firearms and angling industries, and the many professionals on staff with the USFWS who desire a trusting and transparent relationship with their state partners." This is unacceptable federal overreach into the states' authority to regulate the methods of take for sport fish as well as complete disregard for the states' concurrent jurisdiction with the Service for the management of migratory birds. Further, the economic impacts of this action, which likely will be felt most by rural Americans, is likely to be hundreds of millions of dollars."
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com
Poster Comment:
The Second Amendment isn't about F'n Duck Hunting!
Hunting is not the prime consideration, "the security of a free state" is. Tyranny suppression is job #1.
Why hasn't Donald StopFriskConfiscate Trump rescinded Obongo's illegal executive order? He's a NYC gun grabbing progressive libtard!
#1: Vicomte13 To: hondo68 (#0)
Vicomte13 posted on 2017-01-23 18:22:01 Reply Private Reply
#2: misterwhite To: hondo68 (#0)
And where did that lead used to make ammo come from? The ground.
Shooters are merely returning it to where it came from. Isn't that called "recycling"?
misterwhite posted on 2017-01-23 18:33:26 Reply Private Reply
#3: Hondo68 To: Vicomte13, bullet banning Trump (#1)
It's a no-brainer, just do it! Illegal infringements are ongoing NOW. Stop the gun grabber Trump crime spree!
IMPEACH!
Hondo68 posted on 2017-01-23 18:41:17 Reply Private Reply
#4: Hondo68 To: misterwhite, lead replenishment (#2)
Save the planet, bust a few caps for Mother Nature!
Hondo68 posted on 2017-01-23 18:46:00 Reply Private Reply
#5: Vicomte13 To: hondo68 (#3)
The President has much bigger fish to fry right now than a symbolic rules issue that isn't going to have any practical effect.
They'll get to it.
Vicomte13 posted on 2017-01-23 18:46:31 Reply Private Reply
#6: misterwhite To: hondo68 (#0)
269 ft-lbs out of a 1-7/8" barrel.
misterwhite posted on 2017-01-23 18:48:20 Reply Private Reply
#7: Tooconservative To: misterwhite (#2)
In the soil, it is not concentrated like it is with a bullet.
Lead is just bad news for all living things. You do have to leave a lot of lead slugs in one area to pose any hazard but they are not entirely without environmental impact. And that hazard persists for decades or centuries, particularly in a watershed area.
Compared to lead, copper is much friendlier to the environment.
Even so, Trump should rescind this ASAP.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-01-23 20:54:54 Reply Private Reply
#8: sneakypete To: hondo68 (#0)
You people need to widen your focus. This really has nothing to do with shooting,fishing,OR the environment.
This is nothing more or less than "Political Trolling". The purpose is to set the stage for screaming cries of outrage and demands for it to be rescinded by Trump so the Dims can base part of their platform on "Those evil Republicans hate the environment and if you allow them to stay in power they will kill Mother Nature and destroy the Earth!"
It's political gamesmanship,and I can guarantee you that Bathhouse Barry wasn't the father of this plan. He's plenty evil,but he's just not that smart. I suspect someone like Tim Kaine was behind it. He IS pretty damn smart,and there is never any danger of him running low on evil.
Kaine is already clearly running for the Dim nomination in 2020,and he is a serious threat because he is MUCH smarter and MUCH better liked by Dim and non-affiliated voters than Bubbette! ever was.
sneakypete posted on 2017-01-29 13:07:02 Reply Private Reply
#9: calcon To: hondo68 (#0)
calcon posted on 2017-01-29 13:39:01 Reply Private Reply
#10: Hondo68 To: sneakypete, GrandIsland, Fred Mertz (#8)
They're going to say that anyway, if he even does anything to lessen the bureaucratic nightmare environmental regulations, against US businesses.
At some point you've got to make the case for sensible environmental regs where business can thrive, while not destroying the planet. The time is now. Call out the phony environmental trolls!
Welcome back pete, GI misses you and posts something stupid about you nearly every day.
Hondo68 posted on 2017-01-29 13:39:39 Reply Private Reply
#11: Hondo68 To: calcon (#9)
How wrong you are! Get a grip, dip.
Hondo68 posted on 2017-01-29 13:40:56 Reply Private Reply
#12: sneakypete To: hondo68 (#10)
Of course they are,but this way they set up him to stop something truly stupid so they can point their fingers at their truly stupid followers and scream "Trump and the Republicans hate kittens and human babies,and THERE IS THE PROOF!"
It's the political warfare equivalent of having a hook to hang their enemies hats on.
Welcome back pete, GI misses you and posts something stupid about you nearly every day.
Well,he going to have to eat his little heart out,because I am a dedicated heterosexual,and no amount of flirting from Fire Island is ever going to change that.
sneakypete posted on 2017-01-29 18:22:27 Reply Private Reply
#13: buckeroo To: sneakypete, hondo68, GrandIsland (#12)
Welcome back, Pete.
buckeroo posted on 2017-01-29 18:44:09 Reply Private Reply
#14: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#13)
Stone reunited a few Ho-mo's. lol
GrandIsland posted on 2017-01-29 19:54:57 Reply Private Reply
#15: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#14)
buckeroo posted on 2017-01-29 19:59:42 Reply Private Reply
#16: sneakypete To: GrandIsland (#14)
No need to be getting your panties all wet,Fire Island. It's only in your fevered dreams that I am a homo.
You might try Bathhouse Barry,though. He's available now,and the word is he likes white boys.
sneakypete posted on 2017-01-29 20:24:28 Reply Private Reply
#17: GrandIsland To: sneakypete (#16)
GrandIsland posted on 2017-01-29 20:51:18 Reply Private Reply
#18: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#17)
buckeroo posted on 2017-01-29 21:13:46 Reply Private Reply
#19: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#18)
Go ask your paultard buddy, tpaine, why he willingly still lives in Nazi occupied Mexifornia.
GrandIsland posted on 2017-01-29 21:18:48 Reply Private Reply
#20: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#19)
buckeroo posted on 2017-01-29 21:30:43 Reply Private Reply
#21: GrandIsland To: buckeroo (#20)
I'm thinking you were sodomized by someone from Alaska... at a very young age. Grandpa?
There must be some valid reason why the poster named Yukon, who hasn't posted on here for years, still pulls your libtard strings. lol
GrandIsland posted on 2017-01-29 21:39:35 Reply Private Reply
#22: buckeroo To: GrandIsland (#21)
In no way am I going to help you out of this one. Fuck off.
buckeroo posted on 2017-01-29 21:47:34 Reply Private Reply