One of the back door ways the Gun Control Industrial Complex brain trust came up with for disarming law abiding gun owners was via the EPA. Most bullets are…what? Lead. Which can be toxic. Bingo! When a group of “environmental organizations” petitioned the EPA to unilaterally regulate ammo, the EPA decided not to touch that hot potato. So a sub-group sued the regulators last July demanding they ban all ammunition containing lead. Today, however, the DC District Court threw that suit out. Here’s the NSSF’s wonderfully schadenfreude-laden press release . . .
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today dismissed a lawsuit brought by the radical anti-hunting Center for Biological Diversity and six other groups demanding the Environmental Protection Agency ban traditional ammunition containing lead components.
Traditional ammunition represents 95 percent of the U.S. market and is the staple ammunition for target shooters, hunters and law enforcement, with more than 10 billion rounds sold annually.
NSSF filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit last August. The court today agreed with NSSF that EPA does not have the authority to regulate traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
EPA had already twice denied attempts by CBD to have the agency ban traditional ammunition, and the court had dismissed an earlier case brought by CBD seeking the same relief.
“We are gratified that the court has found this second frivolous lawsuit, which is essentially the same as the one dismissed last year, was equally without merit,” said Lawrence G. Keane, senior vice president and general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry. “This was a waste of taxpayers’ dollars and EPA resources spent in having to defend a baseless lawsuit.”
CBD’s serial petitioning of EPA and its repeated lawsuits were designed to cripple the shooting sports in America by banning the ammunition that millions of hunters and target shooters choose to use safely and responsibly.
“There is quite simply no sound science that shows the use of traditional ammunition has harmed wildlife populations or that it presents a health risk to humans who consume game taken with such ammunition,” said Keane. “Banning traditional ammunition would cost tens of thousands of jobs in America and destroy wildlife conservation that is funded in part by an 11 percent excise tax on the sale of ammunition. The protection and management of wildlife is properly handled by the professional biologists in the state fish and game agencies, as it has been for over a hundred years.
In addition to NSSF, the National Rifle Association, Safari Club International and the Association of Battery Recyclers intervened in the case.
Organizations that joined CBD in its lawsuit were the Cascades Raptor Center of Oregon, the Loon Lake Loon Association of Washington, Preserve Our Wildlife of Florida, Tennessee Ornithological Society, Trumpeter Swan Society and Western Nebraska Resources Council.
NSSF was represented by Roger Martella and Christopher Bell from Sidley Austin.
[quote]And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”[/quote]
So wait, if I’m poor and destitute the government will GIVE me ammo? Oh I have to be illegal and Mexican first?
“Congress only has the power to regulate commerce, not prohibit it altogether. Although the Supreme Court has casually assumed the former necessarily includes the latter, that’s wrong if one thinks for just a moment about why the framers of the Constitution put the Commerce Clause in the Constitution in the first place. The Commerce Clause was intended to open borders, not close them. It was concerned that the states might engage in trade wars, impose tariffs on goods from other states, or flat out ban them. The framers realized that the commercial health of the nation required a free flow of commerce.”
Nice to know people are waking up all over the country.
I wonder if this guy will ever get his gun back.
Actually, not prosecuting weakens the law by providing evidence of selective enforcement. While it is certainly in the national interest to get a constitutional ruling (in our favor) nothing guarantees that it would be a broad ruling, much less that it would go in our favor. As a resident of said slave state, I have a direct interest in this law’s failure.
Why are police arresting for violations of the SAFE Act in jurisdictions where the DA has said he will not prosecute?
“police say the light over his license plate was out.”
which means they were fishing for something on this guy, or they pulled him over to mess with him and thought his gun would look good in their collection.
You missed part of the trick. If lead ammunition is banned, we’re stuck with lead-free ammo. The ATF considers most lead-free ammunition to be armor piercing. Civilian ownership of armor piercing ammunition for handguns is heavily restricted. It becomes a backdoor to prohibiting the use of handguns.
And some wonder why there’s an “us against them” attitude dividing police and “regular” folks.
Correct this insane law by voting
what complete and utter foolishness this is..
I intend to pick up a .380 sometime in the next year. Having experienced an LC9, I was thinking of and LCP or LC380, but I might give this a closer look. My EDC is a Taurus PT-111, and it’s never given me grief.
The 738FS (not TCP) is even cheaper, less than 2 Benjamins, I understand. The reason I chose an LCP is because of the reset issue on TCPs where if you didn’t let the trigger all the way out after a shot, the pistol wouldn’t fire without re-racking the slide. I suppose this is more of a training issue, and I have no idea if its a problem in the current crop of TCPs.
It actually looks like a AK-47 rifle with an underfolding stock.
The barrel looks too long to be an AK pistol.
If the same thing happened in Manhattan, the DA would be asking for the death penalty.
Let me get this straight. You get paid to spend the day shooing cool courses with young women that not only like guns, but shoot well? You sir are golden.
P.S. I can’t shoot at a world class level. But if my score won’t count I’d be GLAD to sub for you, you know, if your not happy with the hotel or ammo or what not. Call me. Really.
This just in: Philly cops also don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground.
Radical animal rights groups like the Humane Society of the US, Audubon California, Center for Biological Diversity, and Action For Animals are conducting a war aimed at the banning of sport hunting in California. One way they are trying to accomplish this is by sponsoring AB711, which calls for a state-wide ban on most kinds of hunting ammunition available to the public. Now, the same groups are trying to expand the ban to your state. These groups claim that scavenging animals, such as the California condor, ingest and are poisoned by pieces of metallic lead bullets present in gut piles of harvested game left in the field by hunters. They rely on certain scientific papers that allegedly support these claims, and often use the poisoning of the California condor to justify their anti-lead ammunition agenda.
But there are serious scientific questions about the validity of their claims. The failure of the hastily-enacted California lead ammunition ban legislation of 2007 (AB821) suggests that these groups are wrong. AB821 banned the use of lead ammunition in the “condor zone” region of California. It was strong-armed through the legislature, bypassing the usual path involving the more scientifically inclined California Fish & Game Commission, based on the promise that the ban would lower the condors’ elevated blood-lead levels, and solve the lead poisoning problem. But AB821 has not resulted in lower blood-lead levels or otherwise reduced lead poisoning in condors. Despite the California Department of Fish & Wildlife’s acknowledgment that 99% of hunters are complying with the lead ban in the “condor zone” since the law took effect, condors’ blood-lead levels, poisoning and mortality have increased since 2007!
There are obviously other sources of lead in the environment. These alternative sources are likely an industrial lead compound (e.g leaded gasoline, paint or pesticides), which is far more soluble and bioavailable to condors. We have identified some of those potential alternative sources, and we encourage you to join the hunt for the truth with us and learn the real facts! To learn all the facts in the lead ammunition debate, visit http://www.huntfortruth.org.