21 Aug 01

On "clean" ammunition, from a student and college professor:

"One of our perceived vulnerabilities in protecting what remains of our civil liberties is lead and other heavy metals. All heavy metals are now being portrayed as being as toxic as plutonium!

It is just a matter of time before political totalitarians use the convenient pretext of ‘toxicity' to put a stop to all shooting, particularly on outdoor ranges. They will argue that there is no constitutional right to ‘poison your neighbor.' EPA will replace ATF as the enforcer of choice. It is starting right now in the police community with the replacement of truly effective defensive ammunition with impotent bullets that are little better than compacted metal splinters and cartridges with primers that have uselessly short shelf lives and are unreliable even when fresh."

The fact is, for genuinely effective pistol ammunition, there is no substitute for bullets made primarily of lead. No other metal or composite is even remotely eligible. Likewise, leadless primers have proven themselves to be unreliable and short lived.

/John