Backdoor gun control is here: no lead means no bullets

allenbwest.com ^ | 12-1-2013 | LTC Allen West (USA, Ret.)

[servo1969]

[chris37]

I’m good.

[svcw]

I lovAv West.

[Vendome]

I live next to the Pacific Ocean. I can get smelt anytime.

I got plenty of lead inserted into tbise brass thingies.

[babygene]

It seems to me that one recycled car battery would provide enough lead for one person for a lifetime. 40 or 50 pounds.

No smelting, just melting....

[jimbobfoster]

I cast my own. There still seems to be plenty of lead available from the metal suppliers at a reasonable price.

[rktman]

See link from Sierra bullet folks:

http://sierrabullets.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/sierra-responds-how-will-the-closure-of-the-lead-smelting-plant-affect-sierra-bullets/

Maybe things aren’t as dire as stated. Time will tell.

P.S. Go Col. West.

[JustTheTruth]

Guess it will have to be depleted uranium, then.

[JRandomFreeper]

Or turned nylon.

/johnny

[ltc8k6]

No effect on US bullet manufacturing.

http://bearingarms.com/its-the-end-of-the-primary-lead-smelter-in-herculaneum-and-i-feel-fine/

[null and void]

I believe Doe Run was the last PRIMARY lead smelter, not the last lead smelter.

It converted raw ore into metals, not recycling and recovering lead from scrap.

I think we still have other companies that do that here.

For now.

[shibumi]

Or ... just load up the old 12 gauge with ball bearings.

[Antihero101607]

I’ve always been looking for an excuse to start looking at crossbows.

[babygene]

IMHO, we are very close to an electromagnetic technology that allows lethal rounds to be fired with only the current from a lithium ion battery.

My son has such a toy that can rip a coke can to shreds from 30 feet. It uses plastic 6mm pellets. It’s also full auto... And it’d not even a “gun”. It’s a toy.

[null and void]

Or nails.

[CIDKauf]

Bet a buck the Chinese can make bullets...

[CIDKauf]

or guns that shoot nails.. already hav’em

[fireman15]

Unfortunately car batteries contain mostly lead oxides, diluted sulfuric acid and plastic. You can’t just melt them into bullets. I cast my own bullets where I live it is starting to get more difficult to get scrap lead... mostly because lead tire weights have now been banned for a couple of years.

[rktman]

What is it and where did he get it? Got some bunnies that could, uh, benefit from something like that. If they ain’t paying for the grass, they don’t get to munch on it.

[fella]

There was a posting here the other day about 3D printing with sintered metals suck as Inconel and tungsten. Bullets of exotic design should be possible too.