Daryl I believe what you say about lead to be true. You are fortunate your gun club remains operational in that location. One of the oldest if not the oldest trap field/club in the United States was in Exeter NH on town land bordering the town resevoir. The club remains but trap shooters were forced to non-tox shot only by the town many years ago and the club no longer shoots trap today. Other clubs in NH have been affected, Pelham, where the NH State Shoot is held was forced to close two fields out of 9 after a letter was sent to the club jointly signed by the head of NH Environmental Services and NH Fish & Game when it was found those fields drop zones were in a wetland and if they didn't stop legal action would be taken. A lead ban is and will be implemented incrementally, first it was waterfowl, then it was federal lands, then hunting birds on federal depredation permits, shot drop zones in wetlands (all these things have been done) to what I think will eventually be a total lead ban for shotguns for both game and clay birds. It's coming.
PS. a few years ago NASA reported that the ice caps on Mars were shrinking at a rather fast rate, similiar to the shrinkage in ice caps seen on Earth. In spite of the evidence that global warming is happening in our SOLAR system political forces are still pushing a man made global warming agenda hurting our economy and our country. You don't have to have science on your side, you don't have to be correct, you just need a majority of chicken little citizens/voters and politicians who pander to and profit from them to get things like lead shot banned.
PPS. We have become a society obsessed with saving a planet and protecting ourselves from every possible harm real or imagined. Who in the world would have thought we'd consider putting helmets on babies who start to crawl. Just when I thought it couldn't get any more ridiculous. We are a nation of entitled wimps and whiners. Try telling a parent using one of these about lead being inert and not dangerous.
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