then that portion of the bill may be a response to EPA's various trial balloons about restricting lead ammunition in general, not merely F&WS restrictions on what you can use when hunting. If you look at the bill's table of contents (below), it covers recreational shooting and marksmanship training also, not just the small niche that is hunting.
Hunting rounds are a very, very small subset of the ammunition market; the vast majority of gun owners are nonhunters, and target shooters shoot a lot more than hunters do. For nonhunting ammunition, there are *not* good alternatives to lead that are both affordable and legal.
In handgun calibers and small to intermediate rifle calibers, many of the best lead alternatives are banned by Federal law as "armor piercing", and would be prohibitively expensive for large-scale target shooting and plinking even if they were un-banned.
http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?q=bill/hr-3590-the-sportsmen-s-heritage-and-recreational-enhancement-share-act-of-2013
Here's the bill table of contents:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
TITLE I—HUNTING, FISHING AND RECREATIONAL SHOOTING
PROTECTION ACT
Sec. 101. Short title.
Sec. 102. Modification of definition.
TITLE II—TARGET PRACTICE AND MARKSMANSHIP TRAINING
SUPPORT ACT
Sec. 201. Short title.
Sec. 202. Findings; purpose.
Sec. 203. Definition of public target range.
Sec. 204. Amendments to Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act.
Sec. 205. Limits on liability.
Sec. 206. Sense of Congress regarding cooperation.
TITLE III—PUBLIC LANDS FILMING
Sec. 301. Purpose.
Sec. 302. Annual permit and fee for film crews of 5 persons or fewer.
TITLE IV—POLAR BEAR CONSERVATION AND FAIRNESS ACT
Sec. 401. Short title.
Sec. 402. Permits for importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts
in Canada.
TITLE V—PERMANENT ELECTRONIC DUCK STAMP ACT
Sec. 501. Short title.
Sec. 502. Definitions.
Sec. 503. Authority to issue electronic duck stamps.
Sec. 504. State application.
Sec. 505. State obligations and authorities.
Sec. 506. Electronic stamp requirements; recognition of electronic stamp.
Sec. 507. Termination of State participation.
TITLE VI—ACCESS TO WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
PROJECTS ACT
Sec. 601. Short title.
Sec. 602. Protecting Americans from violent crime.
TITLE VII—WILDLIFE AND HUNTING HERITAGE CONSERVATION
COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Sec. 701. Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council Advisory Com-
mittee.
TITLE VIII—RECREATIONAL FISHING AND HUNTING HERITAGE
AND OPPORTUNITIES ACT
Sec. 801. Short title.
Sec. 802. Findings.
Sec. 803. Definitions.
Sec. 804. Recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting.
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