Article: Firearms Industry Rejects National Park Service Classification of Traditional Ammunition as a Health Threat; Offers to Work with NPS on Hunter Education Efforts

To: SPORTS EDITORS

Contact: Bill Brassard of National Shooting Sports Foundation, +1- 203-426-1320 x 212

NEWTOWN, Conn., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to an announcement today regarding a National Parks Service program encouraging hunters to voluntarily switch to alternative ammunition, the National Shooting Sports Foundation rejected NPS's categorization of traditional ammunition as a health threat. NSSF is offering to work with the National Park Service to develop measures to educate hunters about steps they can take to prevent scavengers from ingesting lead fragments of spent traditional ammunition. The park service is proposing to ban, at a minimum, the use of lead ...

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