Just like there is a push for a carbon offset fee to have the users pay for the use of the carbon polluting fuels, that are putting CO2 into the environment there should be one for lead use. I would like to get a lead shot offset for my doubles. Along with the regular license fee for hunting a second separate fee of say $50.00 a year that allows me to use lead shot in any double made more than 50 years ago. Only doubles can be used with the special program. Modern guns may be able to shoot steel but my poor old doubles can not.
Then the effects of any lead that I use should be offset by the wise government use of my $50.00 to repair the damage that my ten or twenty pounds of lead shot, spread across wide areas of the state, may cause. Seems like the government should be willing to take my money to let me do it. And how many doubles would end up being used? 5% or 10% of the total guns even with lead shot.
