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To Defend Toxic Bullets  By Zack Beauchamp on August 7, 2013 at
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Toxic Bullets"   google plus icon lead poison  CREDIT: Flickr
user Matt Katzenberger  There is a consensus among scientists
that lead-based bullets poisons millions of animals per year and
have the potential to kill American children — yet the National
Rifle Association (NRA) is launching a major effort, reminiscent
of the campaign against science waged by the tobacco and oil
lobbies, to deny the scientific facts.  Last Friday, the NRA
announced a public campaign against scientists, environmental
non-profits, and the San Diego Zoo who supported banning bullets
made of the toxic element, seemingly in reaction to California
legislation that would prohibit the ammunition throughout the
state. The targeted groups, in the NRA’s mind, are part of what
The Huffington Post described as “a conspiracy theory involving
crooked scientis