Gee, still nobody with enough gumption to defend the ability to shoot lead in aquatic settings?
(which is where most the federal bird depredation permits are issued around catfish and other aquaculture farms....)
Gee, no slimy worms with the gumption to produce a link to a spurrious accusation???
In answer to your stupid question, there was a lot of defense of shooting lead in aquatic settings the last time we debated your lead ban bullshit. You and everyone here knows that almost all of the lead that was ever fired over water is still on the bottoms of lakes, rivers, and swamps. No one went out there after it was banned and dredged it all up, yet miraculously, the lead poisoned waterfowl problem abruptly stopped. We don't worry about the higher rate of waterfowl lost to crippling due to use of ballistically inferior steel shot because it was never really about saving ducks. Though lead from days past is sometimes buried in silt, just as often it is churned up by flooding, boats, etc. yet it causes no more problems now than it did when the rush to ban it occurred. You have an uncanny knack of ignoring the truth for a while and hoping the truth will go away. Like a slimy worm.
