The EPA announced late yesterday that they are not considering the ammunition ban portion of the request discussed in my previous blog entry. They are – however – considering the request to ban fishing sinkers.
You can read their press release here…http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/48D939B5009411038525778C00768006
In this was a clear example of the incrementalism that our foes love to employ. They openly admitted that they could not ban ammo, but hoped that they could ban the components to make it. They tried to find a loophole (having the EPA regulate components that go into ammo instead of the ammunition itself), but in this case they failed.
At the very least the EPA honored the bounds of their authority. We have to be vigilant to make sure that this remains the case. I’ll keep you updated if anything new happens on this.