Gun club closed because of pollution from spent bullets

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Sure...you have a right to own a gun and keep your bullets too.

Gun club closed because of pollution from spent bullets | Fox News

 

[BE Mike]

Sure...you have a right to own a gun and keep your bullets too.

Gun club closed because of pollution from spent bullets | Fox News

Also in same article, it was sad to notice that the last gun shop in Frisco was closed due to city regulations.

 

[Mark 1911]

There is one word in this article which pretty much sums up the entire story... "California"

 

[Thegeek]

Was at Bradis last week. They showed me some non-lead bullets. Pretty neat for plinking.....

 

[BehindBlueI's]

amid concerns that taxpayers will be stuck having to pay millions of dollars to clean up pollution from spent bullets

Ah, well that seems reasonable. Taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing poor waste management practices for a range. I know we've got to scoop out the back stops and replace them every so often due to concerns of lead.

A Park district spokeswoman said no trace of lead has been found in the lake.

Ohhhh.... Nevermind. You're just making things up to justify it because you're anti-gun dill weeds. Disregard the reasonableness.

 

[HoughMade]

The idea that lead would be in the ground is terrifying.

Hey, where does lead come from, anyway?

 

[BugI02]

The idea that lead would be in the ground is terrifying.

Hey, where does lead come from, anyway?

We could switch to depleted uranium

 

[Lowe0]

Really depends on who's telling the truth about lead in the water. We're not exempt from being responsible for our negative externalities.

 

[HoughMade]

Really depends on who's telling the truth about lead in the water. We're not exempt from being responsible for our negative externalities.

I've seen no evidence that there was range lead leaching into the water, only theoretical thoughts that maybe it might someday...perhaps.

Also, lead in water has a level above which it may be a problem, and a level below which there is no evidence it is a problem. The presence of lead, in and of itself, is not a health hazard...regardless of what the scared mommies think. Before they go shutting ranges down, I would think that the presence of an actual vs. a speculative threat should be found....unless the local government wants to pay market value for the business/property. Absent a genuine threat of some sort (actual and imminent versus theoretical and future), we get pretty close to a takings issue in this case.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Honest question: Even if the lake was lousy with lead, how would you prove it's coming from some particular place?

 

[Tactically Fat]

Honest question: Even if the lake was lousy with lead, how would you prove it's coming from some particular place?

Groundwater flow mapping, lake water flow mapping, series of water sampling events at known/repeatable locations within the lake...

 

[JTScribe]

Honest question: Even if the lake was lousy with lead, how would you prove it's coming from some particular place?

Microstamping, duh.

 

[indiucky]

The idea that lead would be in the ground is terrifying.

Hey, where does lead come from, anyway?

I hear you brother...I grew up in a house with Asbestos siding....

 

[MegaTank]

So if lead is a problem we should all be using ap rounds right? less lead equals less polution.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Groundwater flow mapping, lake water flow mapping, series of water sampling events at known/repeatable locations within the lake...

Sounds pretty involved and expensive. Reckon that council paid for that or would do so to arrive at the conclusion the lead is coming from that range?

 

[dudley0]

What about all the lead on the other side of the country... from the Cival War battles?

One would think that would be in the ground water and causing concerns by now.

Oh wait... that would put fact before anti-gun thought processes.

 

[Baba Looey]

Seems to me that law abiding gun owners should avoid spending money or visiting San Fran and the DPR of California but then again the citizens thereof shouldn't have followed along like blind sheep.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Seems to me that law abiding gun owners should avoid spending money or visiting San Fran and the DPR of California but then again the citizens thereof shouldn't have followed along like blind sheep.

I predict that within ten years, all public and private ranges on the Left Coast will be shut down due to "environmental" concerns. Only the government will be allowed to operate shooting ranges. Now pick up that can citizen, and pay your taxes with a smile.

 

[Markus]

The idea that lead would be in the ground is terrifying.

Hey, where does lead come from, anyway?

Now that kind of talk might cause a lib's head to explode...use caution.

 

[OakRiver]

Hey, where does lead come from, anyway?

The paint the council was drinking?