A more expensive copper-based bullets will the only kind of ammo being made in the states as the EPA has banned lead ammunition due to the environment..and there’s not a single iota of performance increase from switching lead out for copper:
FOX NEWS – When the last bullet-producing lead smelter closes its doors on Dec. 31, it will mark a major victory for those who say lead-based ammunition pollutes the environment, but others warn ‘green’ bullets will cost more, drive up copper prices and do little to help conservation.
The bid to ban lead bullets, seen by some as harmful to the environment, started slowly more than a decade ago. But with two dozen states, including California, banning bullets made of the soft, heavy metal, the lead bullet’s epitaph was already being written when the federal government finished it off.
First, the military announced plans to phase out lead bullets by 2018.
Then the federal Environmental Protection Agency, citing emissions, ordered the shutdown of the Doe Run company’s lead smelter in Herculaneum, Mo., by year’s end.
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Most if not all ammo is made from recycled lead. The smelter that is closing makes primary lead which would be too expensive for making ammo. This report circulating around the net will drive another buying spree and drive prices up again.
ReplyDeletePrices will go up but most ammo has been made of imported lead for years
ReplyDeleteHere is the govt at work ruining more jobs
ReplyDeleteI went green a month ago , I purchased 5,000 rounds of 9mm green tracers. 5,000 rounds of 22 green tracers .
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