In 90-days US EPA to Consider Ban on Traditional (lead) Ammunition: ACT NOW!!

[Land_Owner]

PUBLIC COMMENTS DUE TO EPA BY 10-31-2010

The EPA has published the petition and relevant supplemental information as Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2010-0681. If you would like to read the original petition and see the contents of this docket folder,  please click http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#docketDetail?R=EPA-HQ-OPPT-2010-0681.  In order to go directly to the 'submit a comment' page for this docket number,  please click http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#submitComment?R=0900006480b3974b.

NSSF urges you to stress the following in your opposition:
     •     There is no scientific evidence that the use of traditional ammunition is having an adverse impact on wildlife populations.
     •     Wildlife management is the proper jurisdiction of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and the 50 state wildlife agencies. 
     •     A 2008 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on blood lead levels of North Dakota hunters confirmed that consuming game harvested with traditional ammunition does not pose a human health risk.
     •     A ban on traditional ammunition would have a negative impact on wildlife conservation. The federal excise tax that manufacturers pay on the sale of the ammunition (11 percent) is a primary source of wildlife conservation funding. The bald eagle's recovery, considered to be a great conservation success story, was made possible and funded by hunters using traditional ammunition - the very ammunition organizations like the CBD are now demonizing.
     •     Recent statistics from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service show that from 1981 to 2006 the number of breeding pairs of bald eagles in the United States increased 724 percent. And much like the bald eagle, raptor populations throughout the United States are soaring.


Steps to take:
     1.     Submit comment online to the EPA.
     2.     Contact Lisa Jackson directly to voice your opposition to the ban:

Lisa P. Jackson
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 564-4700
Fax: (202) 501-1450
Email: jackson.lisa@epa.gov
             

     3. Contact your congressman and senators and urge them to stop the EPA from banning ammunition. 

[bagdadjoe]

Yeah, read the paper detailing lead "pollution".  What a crock!  "lead found near duck blinds in Missouri", "in dove fields in Indiana".  This reads like the "assault weapon" smear in '94.  Half truths, generalizations and bull.  "scavengers killed by eating lead polluted carcasses".  Must be millions of those lead polluted carcasses about.  It's amazing...in the winter we have hundreds...yes, hundreds of buzzards roosting right over the capitol here in Frankfort, Ky.  The only time I see a dead buzzard is when you see one hit by an automobile because they're so numerous they don't even pay attention to traffic anymore.
I'm amazed at how "lead shot stays in the environment for decades or even hundreds of years relatively undegraded" and it stays on the surface of the silt somehow where ducks eat it.  True to the propaganda method, it opens with a photo of a dead Bald Eagle...our national symbol....dead from, yes...."lead poisioning".
This whole thing is almost laughable. But I'm not laughing.  Thanks for bringing this travesty to our attention Land_Owner.