How will this impact ammunition manufacture? (bullet, prices, 2013, effective)

[DauntlessDan]

Any thoughts on how this will impact ammunition production? Will we go back to melting down our own lead for bullets? Will another metal/element be used to replace lead for bullets? Will the impact be major, minor or none at all?


EPA Closure of Last Lead Smelting Plant to Impact Ammunition Production

[DauntlessDan]

Here is another source:

Ammo Price Surge Expected as EPA Regulations Close Lead Smelter

[Cleonidas]

Probably not much at all. This just creates smelting opportunity in Mexico.

[Gungnir]

Originally Posted by Cleonidas

Probably not much at all. This just creates smelting opportunity in Mexico.

This is the correct answer, or perhaps Canada.

The US doesn't manufacture iPhones (or even any of the popular cell phone I can think of), and we have plenty of them and there's zero impact on their availability.

[jaydez]

It won't affect us at all

Allen West blames 'Obama's EPA' for closing a smelter as evidence of 'back door gun control' | PolitiFact Florida

[saxondale351]

Well I can see it pushing more jobs over seas. The last stand will be to stop the O from halting imports of lead or lead products. What if they said no importation of lead ammo because its toxic? Crazy liberals are like pit bulls they don't stop, then get mad when you don't stop defending. I see as we get close to the SH anniversary the left is ramping up its "its all about kids and gun safety regulation" crusade.

[Gungnir]

Originally Posted by saxondale351

Well I can see it pushing more jobs over seas. The last stand will be to stop the O from halting imports of lead or lead products.

So no car batteries then (or any lead acid battery), no primer manufacture (lead styphnate is the compound), no nuclear power plants, or X-ray/CT/PET imaging, no IR detectors or certain Solar PV panels (lead telluride is used in them).

They'd do all of that to prevent lead being used in bullets...? Not to mention that the DoD would never sign off on an import ban, you can't have one of your primary primer and detonator elements on a banned from import list, and you can't effectively shield from radioactive materials without lead, so no nukes either.

Nope can't see it at all. Unless we want our military to be reduced to sailing around the oceans, with no weaponry (no detonators, so no missiles either), and our medical industry to be set back to the late 19th Century.