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OBAMA'S 'CLANDESTINE' PLAN TO MAKE BULLETS VANISH

Allen West warns of back-door attack on guns

Published: 1 day ago

Former U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., is joining the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights groups to warn about a back-door attack on the Second Amendment by the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency.

Ex-Rep. Allen B. West, R-Fla.

In a column posted on his website Sunday, West wrote about the Doe Run company’s lead-producing plant in Herculaneum, Mo., which is being forced to close after the EPA required it to spend up to $100 million on upgrades.
Doe Run, the last primary lead smelter in the United States, has been around since 1892 but is closing on Dec. 31.
West accused Obama of using the EPA to advance “backdoor gun control … while we are all distracted with Obamacare and Iran nuclear negotiations.”
West argued the Obama administration’s “new extremely tight air-quality restrictions” have led to the end of lead as the primary metal in bullets — making ammunition much more expensive and less accessible and leaving America no choice but to turn to overseas operations to produce lead bullets, a situation West says is akin to a federal power grab on guns.
“Come 2014, all ammunition sold to civilian gun owners in America will have to be imported, a result of President Obama’s crackdown on sulfur dioxide and lead emissions and accompanying harsh Environmental Protection Agency regulations,” wrote West.

The Doe Run smelter opened in 1892/Photo: KBIA

“[This] will surely increase the price and possibly come under government control,” Mr. West warned, according to a Breitbart.com report. “It seems this is fully in concert with the U.S. military and Homeland Defense recent purchase of large quantities of ammunition.”
He said the “chilling effect” is that while the closure of the smelt plant doesn’t take guns out of the hands of Americans, it does put in jeopardy ammunition supplies.
As the largest lead producer in North America, Doe Run was embroiled in a decade-long battle between angry parents, government regulators and environmentalists, who argued the plant was responsible for high levels of lead in the blood of children in the area, according to an August story on Mid-Missouri Public Radio.
The battles over contamination in the town pitted neighbor against neighbor and culminated in a flurry of lawsuits. One of them singled out the EPA and forced the federal government to revise the national air pollution standard for lead, tightening it by a factor of ten.
The NRA-ILA issued a press release in response to Doe Run’s closing:

Doe Run made significant efforts to reduce lead emissions from the smelter, but in 2008 the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued new National Ambient Air Quality Standards for lead that were 10 times tighter than the previous standard. Given the new lead air quality standard, Doe Run made the decision to close the Herculaneum smelter.
Whatever the EPA’s motivation when creating the new lead air quality standard, increasingly restrictive regulation of lead is likely to affect the production and cost of traditional ammunition. Just this month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that will ban lead ammunition for all hunting in California. The Center for Biological Diversity has tried multiple times to get similar regulations at the federal level by trying, and repeatedly failing, to get the EPA to regulate conventional ammunition under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

“You can own all the guns you want, but if you can’t get ammo, you are out of luck,” West wrote, on his blog. “Remember when President Obama promised his minions that he was working on gun control behind the scenes? Welcome to it. The result is that all domestically mined ore will have to be shipped overseas, refined and then shipped back to the U.S.”
West warned: “Not only will ammo be even harder to come by, the demand and the process of supply will cause the price to skyrocket even more. And ponder this: There is an excellent chance that Obama will rig the market to where all ammo has to be purchased from the government, instituting an ammo registration. … So America, backdoor gun control is moving forward … [and] our Second Amendment rights are undergoing an assault by clandestine infiltration.”
West concluded his editorial by bashing the president’s “progressive socialist acolytes” for destroying the Second Amendment before telling fellow GOP politicians, “Now it’s our move in 2014.”

ARE YOU WORRIED AMMUNITION IS BECOMING MORE SCARCE?

• No, I think all ammunition should be banned from civilian ownership
  
• No, lead is banned from paint, toys, pencils and other objects. It should be banned from ammo as well
  
• No, I don't see anything wrong with getting rid of lead from ammunition. Suppliers will simply replace it with something safer
  
• No, this is just common sense. Lead is highly toxic, and ammunition kills people. They should both be banned
  
• No, I'll just make my own bullets
  
• Yes, but any federal bans should stimulate the 3-D printer industry
  
• Yes, empty store shelves don't lie
  
• Yes, this is just one more way to discourage Americans from exercising their 2nd Amendment rights
  
• Yes, citizens will have no protection if Obama goes bonkers and declares martial law
  
• Yes, and I have no idea how America will survive three more years under the thumb of this oppressive tyrant
  
• ​Other

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ARE YOU WORRIED AMMUNITION IS BECOMING MORE SCARCE?

• Yes, and I have no idea how America will survive three more years under the thumb of this oppressive tyrant (74%, 557 Votes)
  
• Yes, citizens will have no protection if Obama goes bonkers and declares martial law (10%, 79 Votes)
  
• Yes, this is just one more way to discourage Americans from exercising their 2nd Amendment rights (9%, 68 Votes)
  
• Yes, empty store shelves don't lie (4%, 32 Votes)
  
• No, I'll just make my own bullets (less than 1%, 7 Votes)
  
• Other (less than 1%, 3 Votes)
  
• No, I don't see anything wrong with getting rid of lead from ammunition. Suppliers will simply replace it with something safer (less than 1%, 3 Votes)
  
• Yes, but any federal bans should stimulate the 3-D printer industry (less than 1%, 2 Votes)
  
• No, lead is banned from paint, toys, pencils and other objects. It should be banned from ammo as well (less than 1%, 1 Votes)
  
• No, I think all ammunition should be banned from civilian ownership (less than 1%, 1 Votes)
  
• No, this is just common sense. Lead is highly toxic, and ammunition kills people. They should both be banned (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 753

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MILLER: Obama’s EPA closing smelter will not affect ammunition supply

By Emily Miller
The Washington Times
Monday, December 2, 2013

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Gun owners can rest easy about one aspect of President Obama’s agenda. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to close the country’s last remaining lead smelter will not cause further ammunition shortages or higher costs.

Lawrence Keane is the senior vice president and general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), which represents the ammunitions and firearms industry.

“Manufacturers use recycled lead to make ammunition. They don’t buy from smelters,” Mr. Keane told me Monday. “The EPA closing, which has been in the works for a while, will have no impact on production, supply or cost to the consumers.”

A primary smelter is like a coal mine — it takes the lead out of the ground and turns it into a usable product.

The more than 100-year-old Doe Run Lead Smelter is closing its Herculaneum plant at the end of the year to comply with air-quality standards set by the EPA.American ammunition manufacturers use lead that has been recycled from a variety of everyday products, like car batteries and tire weights.

Ammunition supply has been at historic lows over the last year. This has led some to believe Internet conspiracy theories blaming Mr. Obama, such as the Department of Homeland Security buying up the civilian supply.

In fact, supply is low simply because demand was off the charts in the year leading up to Mr. Obama’s re-election.

After the president announced his gun-control agenda following the Newtown tragedy last December, demand rose for the already-low supply, which led to empty shelves.

Heavy demand continues today because of gun owners’ legitimate fears of additional federal and state restrictions on their Second Amendment rights.

The major manufacturers have been trying to backfill the supply by running the plants with 24/7 with three shifts in 2013, according to the NSSF.However, gun owners should be genuinely concerned about ammunition costs skyrocketing due to the law recently signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown that bans lead ammo for hunting in the state.

The Golden State is always leading the country is inventing absurd gun-control laws based on junk science.

This new statute is based on two bogus claims: that lead ammunition kills off wildlife populations and that people can get sick from eating game shot with lead ammo.

“Banning traditional ammunition will result in an unprecedented constriction of supply and massive price increases,” Mr. Keane of the NSSF said of the California law.

“Large numbers of hunters will be driven out of the field and target shooters off the firing line.”

Make no mistake, Mr. Obama and his gun-grabbing cohorts around the country want to infringe on the Second Amendment whenever possible.

However, in the case of the lead smelter closing, gun owners ought not to be up in arms.

Emily Miller is senior editor of opinion for The Washington Times andauthor of “Emily Gets Her Gun” (Regnery, 2013).

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