Flagstaff, AZ — As part of NRA’s continuing efforts to protect hunters and recreational shooters from special interest groups seeking to restrict or eliminate hunting by banning the use of traditional lead ammunition, the NRA will ask the United States District Court in Arizona to allow the NRA to join in the lawsuit Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. United States Forest Service.
This lawsuit, filed on September 5, 2012, by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the Sierra Club, and the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council (GCWC) alleges that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is legally obligated to regulate the use lead ammunition under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). RCRA is a federal law governing the disposal of hazardous waste.
CBD’s new lawsuit claims that spent ammunition in the Kaibab National Forest presents an “imminent and substantial endangerment to health or the environment.” Specifically, wildlife in the Kaibab National Forest, especially scavenging avian such as the California Condors, Bald and Golden Eagles, are getting lead poisoning from eating lead bullets in carrion left in the field by hunters. CBD claims that a prohibition of the use of lead ammunition is needed to protect wildlife.
