from the NSSF
"This directive is irresponsible and driven not out of sound science but unchecked politics, said Lawrence Keane, National Shooting Sports Foundation senior vice president and general counsel, in a statement. This directive was published without dialogue with industry, sportsmen and conservationists. The next director should immediately rescind this, and instead create policy based upon scientific evidence of population impacts with regard to the use of traditional ammunition.
In the past, the NSSF has argued the economic impact of Californias ban on the use of traditional lead ammunition in hunting could triple ammo prices and force hunters out of the sport in that state.
Under the Trump administration, the USFWS will likely fall under the portfolio of Montana Republican Congressman and retired Navy SEAL officer Ryan Zinke, who has been nominated to become the 52nd U.S. Secretary of the Interior. In his term in the U.S. House, Zinke was co-sponsor of several pro-gun and pro-hunting bills including a sportsmens package that protected lead ammo use.
lead ammo is far from done and we will have sanity back in the USFWS.
