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12-02-2013, 08:00 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/02/allen-west-gun-control_n_4372630.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592 Allen West Accuses Obama, EPA Of Back Door Gun Control
The Huffington Post | By Shadee Ashtari
Posted: 12/02/2013 2:07 pm EST Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) accused President Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency of advancing “back door gun control … while we are all distracted with Obamacare and Iran nuclear negotiations” in an editorial on his website Sunday.
Citing this month's closure of the nation's last primary lead smelter in Herculaneum, Mo., West argues that in an effort to advance gun control, the Obama administration’s "new extremely tight air quality restrictions" have led to the end of lead as the primary metal in bullets -- making ammunition much more expensive and less accessible.
“Thanks to Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), we can no longer smelt lead from ore in the United States,” West writes. “What this all means is that after December 2013, any ammunition that will be available to U.S. citizens will have to be imported, which will surely increase the price and possibly come under government control.”
The lead smelter in Herculaneum was the cause of high levels of lead in the blood of children in the area, a situation that Denise Jordan-Izaguirre of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry called "tragic" in an August story on Mid-Missouri Public Radio. Lead bullets have also been the source of contamination at firing ranges.
West concluded his editorial by bashing the president’s “progressive socialist acolytes” for destroying the Second Amendment before telling fellow GOP politicians, “Now it’s our move in 2014.”
The Huffington Post | By Shadee Ashtari
Posted: 12/02/2013 2:07 pm EST Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) accused President Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency of advancing “back door gun control … while we are all distracted with Obamacare and Iran nuclear negotiations” in an editorial on his website Sunday.
Citing this month's closure of the nation's last primary lead smelter in Herculaneum, Mo., West argues that in an effort to advance gun control, the Obama administration’s "new extremely tight air quality restrictions" have led to the end of lead as the primary metal in bullets -- making ammunition much more expensive and less accessible.
“Thanks to Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), we can no longer smelt lead from ore in the United States,” West writes. “What this all means is that after December 2013, any ammunition that will be available to U.S. citizens will have to be imported, which will surely increase the price and possibly come under government control.”
The lead smelter in Herculaneum was the cause of high levels of lead in the blood of children in the area, a situation that Denise Jordan-Izaguirre of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry called "tragic" in an August story on Mid-Missouri Public Radio. Lead bullets have also been the source of contamination at firing ranges.
West concluded his editorial by bashing the president’s “progressive socialist acolytes” for destroying the Second Amendment before telling fellow GOP politicians, “Now it’s our move in 2014.”