Letter: No link between dead condors, lead bullets

The letter to the editor on lead ammunition in the condor zone (“Lead ammunition vs. Calif. Condor,” Jan. 27) was partially correct in the assumption that there will be a rise in competing predator populations, which as any high school biology student can tell you will lead to more competition for the food source. That means additional biological stress on the condors. That means that we could actually see a decrease in their survival.

 The letter didn’t address the fact that there has never been a proven link between lead poisoning in condors and the use of lead bullets. Just because a bird may have high blood levels of lead, doesn’t mean that it came from eating bullets or bullet fragments.

Protection of the condors was never really the issue since it was not based on true scientific evidence. This was just another step by the anti-gun/anti-hunting lobby to limit the use of firearms by law-abiding citizens.

Once the Washington, D.C., case was lost, the “anti’s” realized that they were never going to be able to ban our firearms. Their only recourse was to limit gun use by regulating them to death with taxes, zones and permits, or to limit the ammunition supply through taxes, ineffective purchase limitations and other similar burdensome regulations and restrictions. Anyone priced ammo lately?

Jim Rogers
Yuba City