Originally Posted By: Ballistix999
Do you guys not get your shooting bodies lobbying against this sort of crap before it becomes law...what a mess...I hope the UK doesn't go this way in the same way!


The NRA has been active on the issue of lead.
http://www.nraila.org/legislation/read.aspx?id=6004

As to lobbying, this is an agency that used an internal process to pass a ruling. If some one is not sitting there...

On this one, I believe they were blind sided in part because the USFWS has administered the Pitman-Robertson money for so long. Honestly, there is more lead involved in lead sinkers for fishing than what this addresses. Although even that has come under attack.

Pete