People said that when I posted this story a week or so ago too. Maybe it’s the price we pay for getting rid of a company that treats the environment with contempt, and as I’ve pointed out to my liberal pals many times, having clean air and water and “conserving” natural resources are absolutely “conservative” ideas. I’ll wait to see what happens, but it seems that when you remove a primary smelter from the industry by regulatory action and force ammo makers to rely on recycled and imported lead, it can’t help but have an impact on price. But I could be wrong.
And maybe, like the 30 year exemption granted to wind farms over eagle deaths, it’s part of the price we have to pay to achieve other goals.