With the fall hunting season fast approaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey, is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) – a leading anti-hunting organization – to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition.
If the EPA approves the petition, the result will be a total ban on all ammunition containing lead-core components, including hunting and target-shooting rounds. The EPA must decide to accept or reject this petition by November 1, 2010, the day before the midterm elections.
Today, the EPA has opened to public comment the CBD petition. The comment period ends on October 31, 2010.
First, if you want to see the original petition, go to http://bit.ly/cOoHr2, and if you want to skip that and just submit a comment against this petition, go to http://bit.ly/9nMgdT.
We are urged by the National Shooting Sports Foundation to leave comments in opposition to the petition. If you do so, please address the following issues.
- 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.Contact information will be provided for Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), in a bit.
Second, what is THIS about!?
Talk about an agenda driven measure to STRIP Americans of their second amendment rights! “Sure you can own guns to protect yourself, BUT you’ll never be able to use them.” That is the very problem with activists such as the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD).
They are saying that the lead core of bullets used for hunting is causing the lead poisoning of wildlife. Um, did someone hit their heads too hard? I have spent A LOT of time researching this.
Legitimate scientific evidence that supports the claim that traditional Ammunition harms wildlife population DOES NOT EXIST. How many hundreds of years has mankind been hunting with lead based bullets? The use of lead ammunition dates back to the 14th century and parallels development of gunpowder. However, the GOVERNMENT officials and ACTIVISTS say that in the last 100 years lead poisoning has become a problem of “epidemic proportions (http://www.usgs.gov/corecast/details.asp?ID=86).”
I have found it to be most likely the result of the Usurper in Chief’s “regulatory czar,” Cass Sunstein. Sunstein is one of the most radical animal rights bureaucrats in the White House and as a close friend of the Usurper in Chief was appointed as head of the Office of INFORMATION and REGULATORY Affairs.
To give you a little background on the guy,
He wrote the book, “Nudge.” “Nudge is a book that looks at you and me as Guinea pigs. He writes about how to manipulate us into doing exactly what we are “supposed” to do. A little nudge here, a little nudge there, guiding us to be a better utopian society.
This is the guy who tried to get all of us out of our SUVs. Global warming this, and global warming that, Please don’t drive them *sniff*, Oh the HUMANITY! Well this didn’t work sooooo…
That’s about the time you hear about this amazing deal known as “CASH FOR CLUNKERS.” Aha!
Manipulative little guy isn’t he?
So with that established, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has executive powers from the White House, which include the Departments of Interior and Agriculture. The Department of the Interior maintains regulation over national and wildlife issues. While the EPA is not under any DIRECT control of these departments, they are “supposed” to work in unison.
This means that there is an EXTREMELY pro-animal rights activist who potentially has the ability to influence whether we are able to use ammunition. Does this sound at all like the Cash for Clunkers bit?
There is another piece to this upsetting puzzle.
THE RAMIFICATIONS FOR A BAN ON AMMO MAKES IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
Think of this. You are granted a right by the Constitution, a right that is INALIENABLE anyway. Constitutions do not grant rights. Rights that are granted can be revoked. Besides, the US constitution is merely a list of things the government can't do. But, because some ninny is concerned about a bird or two, and wants (with a “Nudge”) to ban Lead Core Ammunition from being used, they are essentially stripping the ABILITY TO USE ANY GUN AWAY FROM US! Lead Core Ammunition is the cheapest way for us to protect ourselves and its mainstream use for hunting and plinking is no more common than SELF PROTECTION.
Oh, you’re GOOD Usurper in Chief. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
The “regulatory czar” will most likely allow us to purchase non-Lead Ammunition BUT at a price. How does $5.00 - $10.00 A BULLET sound? They can also decide and will, probably sooner than we think, expect us to catalog or limit the number of rounds we are to buy.
This is NOT GOOD. When we are on the brink of having a Totalitarian/Authoritarian government regime.
If we are not there ALREADY.
So what if they ban our ammo? They make us more susceptible to their attacks and pressures to cow to their demands and LOSE OUR FREEDOM to another England but WORSE. Look at two of the most famous totalitarian leaders of last century: Stalin and Hitler.
They are taxing us to a point of not surviving (http://secondamendmentman.blogspot.com/2010/08/tax-storm-is-coming.html) and then taking away our abilities to provide and protect ourselves.
This road is getting shorter. The bridge is almost crossed. We are almost there.
I promised to provide you with contact information. I could not find any contact info for Cass Sunstien except for his Harvard Email.
Publicly provided contact information for the following:
- Cass Sunstein
- Phone: 617-496-2291
- John F. Kennedy School of Government
- Mailbox NR
- 79 JFK Street
- Email: csunstei@law.harvard.edu
- Center for Biological Diversity (CBD)
- P.O. Box 710
- Tucson, AZ 85702-0710
- Phone: (520) 623.5252
- Toll-free: (866) 357.3349
- Fax: (520) 623.9797
- Email: center@biologicaldiversity.org
- Lisa P. Jackson
- Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
- Washington, DC 20460
- Phone: (202) 564-4700
- Fax: (202) 501-1450
- Email: jackson.lisa@epa.gov
