And there you have the underlying purpose of the ban. The purpose stated is only the rationalization used to mask it.
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It's not the hunting they want to do away with; it's the guns. Doing away with hunting just helps to do it.
Lead is mined from the ground so how are they going to get it out of the environment? Using lead shot just puts it back where it came from.
I could not agree more Joe and Valhalla. I think that doing away with the lead leaves only one choice, and that is to put it right back where we got it. In the ground like Joe said. And like Joe, I prefer to do it with extremely high velocity and noise. :D