The better question is: will it stop them?
No, the EPA does not actually have the authority to ban lead ammo. But that doesn’t mean they won’t try.
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August 27th, 2010 at 9:17 am
HEH, well theyre gonna have a hard time with that since assholes like……ME have all of these BULLET MOLDS floating around all over the place. while I do prefer jacketed for most apps, I will not heasitate to use lead! REVENUERS BEWARE!
August 27th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
I’m pretty sure that the inevitable lawsuits that they can’t win will stop them from trying to do what they explicitly have no power to do under the TSCA.
But as I’ve said elsewhere, the obvious reason that this petition didn’t just get thrown out when the EPA got it, is that the petition also asks them to ban fishing weights.
Which is within their power under the TSCA, as fishing weights are not taxed specially under the appropriate regulation and are thus not exempt.
Petitions are part of the law and can’t be just ignored. Comment periods on them are normal.
And since EPA must give a reason for denial, and can be sued over it, I imagine they want to get input about the part they have discretion over (the fishing weights) before doing anything.
Either accepting the petition in the parts that are legally acceptable, or denying it entirely on the grounds that the parts they could implement are not supported by the evidence, are the two plausible alternatives.
Seriously, guys. The world isn’t ending because some environmentalists asked the EPA to do something it can’t along with something it can; the EPA has to listen to them, by law, like it has to listen to everyone else.
It also doesn’t have to do what they say, and if it tries to do what it can’t legally do, it’ll get sued and lose.
August 27th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Strangely enough, it stopped them.
August 28th, 2010 at 12:42 am
However, with the BHO Administration, Congressional Authority can be placed in any bill and passed up to Jan 3rd, 2011 at least. Remember SCOTUS told the Bush Administration that they had NO Authority to stop the EPA from enforcing any Environmental Law that the EPA deemed “Necessary” to protect the Environment, and only Congress had the power to limit and/or expand such power.