The Environmental Protection Agency is taking steps to do what Democrats have wanted to do all along but were afraid to – undermining the 2nd Amendment. Banning guns has cost Democrats elections and power so their strategy is to allow us to keep guns but attack ammunition, making it unaffordable. Many will remember that Dems floated exorbitant taxes and “smart’ bullets which were both programs designed to limit access of ammunition to the wealthy. When those efforts failed we have Obama kicking things to his Czars.

From the National Shooting Sports Federation:

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.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) — the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry — urges you to submit comment to the EPA opposing any ban on traditional ammunition.  Remember, your right to choose the ammunition you hunt and shoot with is at stake.

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 here. In order to go directly to the ‘submit a comment’ page for this docket number, please click here.

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 Service 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.

They go on to urge you to submit a comment, write your congressman and even contact EPA administrator Lisa Jackson directly. All well and good if you think political pressure will work, but that supposed that Democrats and the hard Left Obama administration care about political pressure. Chances are they actually don’t. If Obama, Pelosi and Reed have proven anything it’s that the cause is, to them, more important that the election of Democrats this cycle. They are putting in a frame work to “fundamentally change” society and limiting access to firearms for the protection of your self and your property as well destroying the hunting sports (which help people be self-sufficient) is key to the process of changing America from a country of rugged individualists to one full of the European style neo-peasantry that the Left wants Americans to be.

This is going through, just like the EPA’s ruling that what your exhaling right now is a poison that should be regulated. What you should really do is prepare. It’s time to take up reloading if you haven’t. Beginner reloading kits can be found on Amazon for cheap, books like The ABCs of Reloading take the mystery out of the process and sites like Chuck Hawks.com have reloading sections that offer a wealth of information. You can cast your own bullets from scrap lead.

Some non-gun folks may be asking what the big deal is, as there are bullets made of metals. As Snowflakes in Hell points out most other metals are considered armor piercing by law and the most commonly used metal replacement for bullets is copper which is expensive and inefficient. Copper bullets are simply not as effective as lead, and copper is so expensive that our pennies haven’t been made of them for decades.

You need to think about how you will be getting ammunition next year.