Again California is attempting to ban lead ammo:
Environmentalists are pushing legislation to ban lead ammunition in California to prevent toxins from poisoning scavengers that eat animal remains left by hunters.
There are dubious studies that show that elemental lead is doing much of anything in animals. Where lead is dangerous is in its chemical forms such as lead paint, or the Lead styphnate in your gun primers. (You get more lead exposure shooting from your priming compound than the lead ball running down your bore, even if you don’t use jacketed ammo!)
Still the real danger in this law is the one-two-punch where lead ammo is banned because its toxic, and non-lead ammo is banned because its “Armor Piercing”, which generally has been legislated as “armor piercing because we say it is!”
Be vigilant!
