Originally Posted By: Konor3inch
The voluntary ban will become compulsory in five years which is said to allow time for ammunition development of non lead ammunition with non plastic wads.


So essentially, the "voluntary ban" isn't voluntary at all. It would be best to cut the crap and start calling it exactly what it is... a compulsory ban.

These word games are no different than firearm, magazine, or ammunition bans that our anti-gun Liberal Democrats try to get enacted by calling them "common sense gun laws" or "gun safety measures".

Not to be condescending, but I'd like to think that shooters and gun owners in the UK would have learned how the anti-gunners operate by now.

Originally Posted By: Konor3inch

As far as I am aware there are no recorded cases of human lead poisoning in the UK caused by consumption of game.


Exactly! There is documented scientific evidence that people who consume hunter shot game are not being poisoned by lead shot or bullet fragments. And if the tired old falsehood about lead salts or lead oxide leaching into soils and lakes and causing lead poisoning was true, all of the vast tonnage of lead shot fired into our marshes, lakes, rivers, and estuaries before the U.S. ban on lead shot for waterfowl hunting would still be causing mass poisoning of waterfowl. Every living creature in or around Civil War battlefields like Gettysburg should be dead or dying from all of the lead bullets in the soil. Nobody went out there and cleaned it all up.

The simple fact of the matter is that larger pieces of lead are not a very bio-available form of lead as a toxin. It was much different with the tetraethyl lead in gasoline, or the lead in paints and many other chemical compounds. We've hashed this fact out here many times before, but we still have hunters in the U.S. who fall for the bullshit, and refuse to push back against junk science and outright lies. Most any person who eats hunter shot birds knows of the possibility of biting into shot that wasn't found during cleaning. They chew gently, and they certainly don't swallow any they may bite into. In the event that they did inadvertently swallow lead shot, it would very quickly pass out the other end, and into the crapper. Of course, biting into steel shot is a lot more likely to break a tooth, and other so-called non-toxic shot has its' own environmental toxicity.

A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.