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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...tial/enviornme
ntal-protection-agency-considering-a-ban-on-lead-ammunition-101492439.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning
Lead, one of the leading causes of toxicity in waterfowl, has been known
to cause die-offs of wild bird populations.[122] When hunters use lead
shot, waterfowl such as ducks can ingest the spent pellets later and be
poisoned; predators that eat these birds are also at risk.[153] Lead
shot-related waterfowl poisonings were first documented in the US in the
1880s.[69] By 1919, the spent lead pellets from waterfowl hunting was
positively identified as the source of waterfowl deaths.[154] Lead shot
has been banned for hunting waterfowl in several countries,[69]
including the US in 1991 and 1997 in Canada.[155]
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If you are a hunter, you should be in favor of this bill. Everybody
should be in favor of getting the lead out of the environment, as we did
with leaded gasoline. It is particularly toxic to small children.

If you live where little hunting takes place, this bill wouldn't make
too much difference to your health. On the other hand, the exposure of
waterways to lead shot would spread the lead in the environment of your
quarry, and possibly into your water supply. Like top predators, we will
end up concentrating the lead into ourselves.

Obviously, there are concerns about legislation restricting rights, but
we need to be smart about this.
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
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