Letter: Citizens targeted, forced to pay

The Nov. 8 article on lead bullets did not mention the scientific work that has made this a nonissue. Hunters have eaten game forever and there is little evidence that any have died from lead poisoning. There’s a greater chance of being killed from a falling meteor. This myth is perpetuated by the anti-gun and anti-hunting dolts.

The condor ammunition ban was political – it had nothing to do with scientific evidence. Hunters who expend the money, time and energy to hunt rarely leave anything to waste. I could not find one single documented case where a condor had ingested any lead ammunition, yet we created a huge area where lead ammo is banned. Like the mountain lion-hunting law, it’s not based on sound scientific evidence.

Since the anti-gun lobby lost its assault on our Second Amendment rights, it has changed tactics. The idea is to choke off ammunition supplies to make the use of firearms so expensive and so overly burdensome with regulations (like the new AB962 law) that people will give up their national heritage of hunting and target shooting.

It isn’t an accident that there is an ammunition shortage or that prices have skyrocketed. It’s the upstanding citizen who is targeted and who has to pay. Criminals have an unlimited supply of guns and ammo. We only have to look to England and Australia to see what happens next.

Jim Rogers
Yuba City