Comments on: EPA Rejects Challenge to Lead-Containing Bullets and Ammo https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/08/epa-rejects-challenge-to-lead-containing-bullets-and-ammo/ from AccurateShooter.com Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:06:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: Richard Whiting https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/08/epa-rejects-challenge-to-lead-containing-bullets-and-ammo/comment-page-1/#comment-46846 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:26:12 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=18490#comment-46846 The EPA should look at the locating of a ship that sank in Manila bay over 400 years ago, and found the lead balls were intact whereas the steel cannon balls dissolved in the sea water. The National Geographic Published an article on this ship circa 1992. Lead sinkers do not dissolve nor do fish eat them, only very small sinkers might be ingested by migratory waterfowl, but then there are still a lot of lead shot in estuaries that will never be reclaimed nor will it cause harm to the environment.

Richard Whiting, Author, NRA Range Manual and studies on lead in the environment

]]> By: Inspectormac https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2010/08/epa-rejects-challenge-to-lead-containing-bullets-and-ammo/comment-page-1/#comment-7012 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:16:42 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=18490#comment-7012 The important part of this statement is not that the EPA refused to ban lead in ammunition. The important part is that the EPA recognized the limits of the power given to them under the Toxic Substances Act and chose to abide by those limits.

This should end this line of attack on firarms and shooting once and for all, since they aren’t likely to be granted the authority to ban lead ammunition under any current bill. Just my $.02 anyway.

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