California is mandating a "get the led out" for hunting. Now in specific zones, statewide by 2019. Target shooting anything is okay so far, though they did try to ban the gree tip stuff.
This is where I say "do you want EVERYONE to be shooting rounds that will zip right through even low-level plate armor? Because this is how you get EVERYONE shooting rounds that will zip right through even low-level plate armor"
Funny that the Kali ban has an escape clause if copper slugs are ruled to be 'piercing,' itself funny because even a small amount of alloying agents in that material (zinc or beryllium) is expressly forbidden by the federal statute. If Cu solids get banned, all that will happen is a whole lot of people with lathes will say 'screw it' and being turning slugs from solid brass round...which is why I put that statement up top, there.
The only material that's even close to being as economical as lead for shooting is iron/steel, and they've basically already banned that for the most part. Take copper-based alloys out of the picture, and you're left with either precious or highly toxic heavy metals.
Platinum-Iridium solids, for the win!
*This is why LEOPA should be either repealed, or at the very least replaced with something that makes a lick of sense. I once proposed all the stupid requirements be replaced with two very simple ones: 1) no material used may be harder than mild steel (easily satisfied by a wide range of materials) 2) no material used may be denser than lead (easily avoided by not using Uranium, Tungsten or other poisonous/expensive heavy metals). These two rules would restrict all the types of ammo they are
actually concerned with, while placing few arbitrary restrictions on us, otherwise. It's still a stupid policy to pursue since you just need a fast enough bullet with high enough sectional density to punch through anything, but you have a system that is far more objective than what we have now, and still achieves whatever supposed benefits LEOPA has for officer safety.
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