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The "going green" craze has now officially gone too far:

NY Environmental Police Switch to Unleaded Bullets

New York State Conservation Officers are going green in an effort to protect themselves and the environment from furthered lead exposure. The "green" bullets are are made by Federal Ammunition and will replace the leaded bullets they use during training. More than 150,000 rounds of ammunition are fired, mostly for training by D.E.C. officers every year.

The AP says that now, in an effort to reduce lead exposure to officers that work out of the D.E.C., (both conservation and forestry) will be using "green" ammunition made by "Federal Ammunition" called "BallistiClean."

BallistiClean brand bullets are lead free and the core now is made out of "a combination of zinc, tin, tungsten, copper or nylon". This eliminates airborne lead particles and helps to reduce "barrel fouling".

The bullets break-up immediately upon impact which reduces ricochet or back-splash dangers. On the head of the bullet is a "NT" (non-toxic) stamp so that they can be recognized easily. The ammunition meets both EPA and OSHA standards.

Another of the articles trumpeting this bold move quoted a spokesman for the Washington-based Environmental Working Group.

Lead is a poison, Formuzis said, and it is particularly detrimental to the health of young children.

YA THINK?!? They're BULLETS, ASSHOLE!

The last thing we need in this gun-loving country is to have to waste valuable time rummaging through our arsenals to find the environmentally friendly ammo belts before blowing Bambi back to the stone age. This is an infringement on our constitutional right to keep and arm bears and I promise to be on the phone with the NRA (Nuts Running America, for those of you outside our heavily armed borders) as soon as Charlton Heston wakes up from his morning nap.