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Article: Firearms Industry Rejects National Park Service Classification of Traditional Ammunition as a Health Threat; Offers to Work with NPS on Hunter Education Efforts
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- August 6, 2009
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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 ...