I suspect that the lead ban will soon be extended to TARGET ammo, probably on "public health" grounds.
There is no scientific data supporting the claim that spent lead at shooting ranges has any effect whatsoever on the environment such as "seeping into groundwater" as is claimed by some groups who have no idea what they're talking about. (Perpetuate the lie and it will eventually be taken as 'truth')
The shooting club I belong to has very active trap and skeet ranges as well as pistol and a twenty-position rifle range. At our expense we hired a non-biased firm to do soil studies on the trap range where literally billions of small 7 1/2 and 8 shot has been covering the ground down-range for many decades. The results of their tests were that lead contamination of any kind was found no deeper than 8 inches with 10 inches being the extreme and that there has been no lead contamination whatsoever to the ground water beneath the ranges.
