epa bans lead weights

[SpiderGearsMan]

EPA will also pursue a ban on the manufacture and distribution of lead tire weights in response to a 2009 petition from the Ecology Center, the Sierra Club and other NGOs requesting that the agency establish regulations prohibiting the manufacture, processing, and distribution of lead tire weights
hahaahahahahah
first move in trying to ban ammo ?

[squirrel]

Re: epa bans lead weights

can't be the first move, the first move was numbering it

[studemax]

Re: epa bans lead weights

first move in trying to ban ammo ?

They haven't been using lead for bullets in quite some time.
Too many trees died of lead poisoning.

[SpiderGearsMan]

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not trees !!! save the trees !!!

[TC]

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You know I hate it when my kids start chewing on the lead weights on the tires. :


What's next banning the use of lead weights in LSR racing??

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: epa bans lead weights

heard it was only lead compounds [like tetraethyl lead ]that were toxic
don't let facts stand in the way of tree huggers

[Schtauffer]

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So what is a suitable replacement?

[Monster]

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Gold is pretty dense and heavy ...
;)

[Screaming Detroit]

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Maybe they can use endangered species droppings ;D

[SpiderGearsMan]

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If lead is bad in wheel weights, then it must also be bad in bullets. This turns a $10 box of ammo into a $30 box of ammo. It also makes rimfire ammunition a technical impossibility, thus keeping kids from learning to shoot. The goal is to make firearms ownership too expensive . The dirty little secret is that metallic lead isn't toxic :-[ lead compounds are. :

[Barry Donovan]

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heard it was only lead compounds [like tetraethyl lead ]that were toxic
don't let facts stand in the way of tree huggers

as real weaponry is to badly hurt, plutoniu, deplete ammo is found in the military, lead in bulletts is something to giggle over.

as for tire weights..as if they couldn't find a thousand different alloys to make it different for the complaint.

[jfuelracer]

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I was told by a guy that dives that lead weight has been ban for divers for quite a while. All I know is I pick up every scrap of lead I can find. Race cars need weight and mercury and gold is way to expensive.

[BlackoutSteve]

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Maybe they are not worried about "poisonous" lead wheel weights.. but the manufacture of..

[squirrel]

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or the guys at the tire store that get to handle the weights all day

[BigDad]

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Most shotguns loads contain ball shot, usually known as pellets. In the past, the pellets were almost always made of lead. But non-toxic loads are required by Federal law in the United States for waterfowl hunting, so lead pellets in shotgun loads have been partially replaced by bismuth, steel, tungsten-iron, tungsten-nickel-iron, or other substances?such non-lead shot is required for waterfowl shooting, and usually permissible elsewhere. Lead shot is still most commonly used for non-waterfowl hunting and for shotgun sports