Last Remaining Lead Smelter In The USA Closing After 120 Years

[Moonpie]

This does not bode well for us.

22LR especially. :-(

Last Remaining Lead Smelter In The USA Closing After 120 Years - The Firearm Blog

 

[breakingcontact]

This doesn't make any sense to me. Wow. I'm a pretty environmentally minded fellow, but this religion of the left, environmentalism, is economic suicide. Outside looking in, we are destroying our own economy and industrial capacity.

I'm sure we will find a way to keep procuring lead, but at a higher cost or by "alternative" means.

 

[txbikerman]

This doesn't make any sense to me. Wow. I'm a pretty environmentally minded fellow, but this religion of the left, environmentalism, is economic suicide. Outside looking in, we are destroying our own economy and industrial capacity.

I'm sure we will find a way to keep procuring lead, but at a higher cost or by "alternative" means.

they dont care about the economy , just their twisted beliefs, and the junk science behind it

 

[TX69]

Yay for the greenies and the EPA! Hopefully they will be able t put a dagger through the heart of coal and kill off our power plants too! Yay!

 

[TheDan]

wow... An entire industry killed; and it has nothing to do with demand or labor/manufacturing costs or technical innovations. Government regulation killed it.

This impacts a lot more than just ammo; there's lead in all sorts of stuff.

 

[Southpaw]

This doesn't make any sense to me. Wow. I'm a pretty environmentally minded fellow, but this religion of the left, environmentalism, is economic suicide. Outside looking in, we are destroying our own economy and industrial capacity.

I'm sure we will find a way to keep procuring lead, but at a higher cost or by "alternative" means.

Seems to be their plan. Take away any way our economy and 99% of the people are going to need .gov to survive.

 

[Jeffrey]

And then a quick ban on importing ammo and ammo components, and there you go!

 

[TheDan]

So what happens if we get into a war with china? Keep buying lead from them to make bullets to shoot them with?

 

[breakingcontact]

So what happens if we get into a war with china? Keep buying lead from them to make bullets to shoot them with?

First we would have to get a loan from China to buy lead from them.

 

[TheDan]

lol...

 

[cbigclarke]

Just bloody once would i like to see a modern day governor, and legislature tell the feds to go pound sound.

 

[breakingcontact]

Just bloody once would i like to see a modern day governor, and legislature tell the feds to go pound sound.

RT

 

[TX69]

And then a quick ban on importing ammo and ammo components, and there you go!

Goal is to get this done in less than 3.5 years.

Historical

 

[TreyG-20]

No more batteries.

 

[breakingcontact]

Goal is to get this done in less than 3.5 years.

Historical

They will make criminals of us for exercising our rights. Amazing.

 

[txbikerman]

They will make criminals of us for exercising our rights. Amazing.

isn't that their goal?

 

[F350-6]

Lead is heavy, but i would think a train ride to Mexico would be cheaper than the slow boat from China. Perhaps they'll open a smelter plant in Mexico for US lead.

 

[Texasjack]

Stay calm! The country doesn't use the amount of lead we once did. No lead in gasoline since the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. The military has switched over to non-lead bullets. Smaller batteries are all metal hydride and even car batteries use a lot less lead than they used to. Lead is no longer used in paint (replaced by titanium dioxide).

Lead smelters have an awful time trying to comply with EPA regulations. They basically can't have any emissions - and that isn't realistically possible. Better to send the lead off to China or a Third World country for reprocessing.

Listen, the EPA is doing FAR, FAR worse things than pushing lead smelters out of business! The Greenhouse Gas regs have already been used to prevent construction of a coke-fueled power plant in Corpus Christi. Over the next few years, those regs will be used to squeeze out petroleum refineries and will cause your electric bill to skyrocket.

 

[TX69]

First we would have to get a loan from China to buy lead from them.

Can't. They lowered our credit rating.

 

[stdreb27]

Stay calm! The country doesn't use the amount of lead we once did. No lead in gasoline since the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. The military has switched over to non-lead bullets. Smaller batteries are all metal hydride and even car batteries use a lot less lead than they used to. Lead is no longer used in paint (replaced by titanium dioxide).

Lead smelters have an awful time trying to comply with EPA regulations. They basically can't have any emissions - and that isn't realistically possible. Better to send the lead off to China or a Third World country for reprocessing.

Listen, the EPA is doing FAR, FAR worse things than pushing lead smelters out of business! The Greenhouse Gas regs have already been used to prevent construction of a coke-fueled power plant in Corpus Christi. Over the next few years, those regs will be used to squeeze out petroleum refineries and will cause your electric bill to skyrocket.

Yeah but I shoot boolits.

There are way to many liberal fruit cakes in my town for las brisas to have made it... It wasn't just the EPA. It was all the oil burning Subaru drivers and their 80 bumper stickers.

Hopefully they get some of the other stuff industrial wise built before they realize it...