How will the lead ammo ban affect you?

In October of 2013 the state of California passed a ban on hunting with lead ammunition http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/hunting/lead-free/ . While more states are looking at the same alternative to traditional hunting, I am looking for ammunition alternatives myself. Not everyone has a friend that works overnight in the Sporting Goods dept at the local big box retailer that can text them in the middle of the night to let them know that they got in 6 boxes of .380 (or whatever).

The Washington Times reported that the only smelter left in the U.S. that produced lead for ammunition closing will have absolutely no effect on the availability or cost of ammunition http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/2/obamas-epa-smelter-closing-will-not-affect-ammunit/?page=all . Most major ammunition manufacturers began making "green" ammo by 2008 when the lead ammo debates intensified. If you do a cost comparison between the two, non-lead ammo is not the same cost as traditional lead ammo.

It makes me wonder if the $11 core charge on a car battery is worth it, or is that something that I should save along with the lead I pick out of the hillside at the shooting range. I have been saving my brass for years. Why not save the lead as well? Many people are making their own bullets http://www.ehow.com/how_2212846_make-ammunition.html and have been for some time. As a child I can remember my father casting .54 caliber balls for his muzzleloader.

As more states are looking at alternatives to lead bullets I will keep collecting lead (and storing it safely) for my personal use. http://ehs.whoi.edu/ehs/occsafety/leadweightsafety.pdf . If it gets to the point where you need to make your own bullets, it will be too late to start collecting lead.

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Dons testimony to the state opposing SB347

Annola DeJong 
Judiciary Office Coordinator 
503-986-1512 
annola.dejong@state.or.us



Ms. DeJong works as the judiciary officer for the state of Oregon



Dear Ms. DeJong:

Please see that the following testimony is provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee for the hearing and work session tomorrow in these matters: SB347, 699, 700, 796

Dear Judiciary Committee:

I write in total opposition to SB347, 699, 700, 758, and 796; what have become known as this Legislature's Gun Control bills.

There is no compromise form or change of these bills that can meet constitutional muster other than their total rejection. They are in violation of our constitutional rights here in Oregon by operation of our Bill of Rights under Article I, Section 27. It is my belief if you all continue in these actions you will be making yourselves personal targets of those who reject slavery, love freedom and liberty, and have reserved unto themselves the power to insure they will stay free from the tyranny of governments, including our own. From my understanding of history today you have the choice to build your own personal Concord Bridge. If you do you will become the "Red Coats." Only this time the coats you wear will be stained with the blood of patriots you dishonor and reject. If it is to be, then so be it and may God have mercy on you.

As I reflect on these words, three American flags hang on my wall from those who served in time of war. Each was a Veteran of WWII and other places. One has a posthumous purple heart. If you proceed in any direction other than to kill these bills, you will spitting on the graves of these Americans and all others who have served at their peril as surely as if you were personally standing on those graves engaged in that act.

To let these bills get to this point you collectively have shown a lack of integrity as oath givers and a willingness to consider compromise of those fundamental rights guaranteeing our freedoms. I can think of nothing more degrading to you collectively, or personally.

More sincerely than you can begin to possibly understand

Don W. Leach

84058 N. Pacific Highway

Creswell, Oregon 97426

Is the State of the Union a civil war? Or, a revolution?

As we approach the abyss of civil war driven by the outrageous conduct of factions of the federal and various state governments, we are well guided by our founding fathers and their then declared terrorists actions to wrench with bloody hands the foundations of true freedom. Today they are called the patriots. 

Core to that freedom upon which this country was made great was the ability of the individual in defense of self, family, community, and the state to keep and bear arms. It is noted that when King George III attempted to disarm the colonies they rose up in defiance leading to the Revolutionary War.

The broad understanding of the Federal 2nd amendment in its day was correctly declared in the United States Supreme Court cases of the Heller and McDonald rulings to provide the people not only the ability to defend themselves from the tyranny of governments, but to be able to personally defend themselves by the right and force of arms.

For the state of Oregon to be admitted to the union of states comprising the Republic of the United States of America it had to submit a constitution that was not only ratified by the people of Oregon but then in turn it had to be accepted by that said Republic, which it was without reservation from the Republic. The State of Oregon reserved to its citizenry certain state constitutional fundamental guaranteed rights. One of those fundamental guaranteed rights accepted by the Republic is: "The people [of Oregon] shall have the right to bear arms for the defence [sic] of themselves, and the State, but the Military shall be kept in strict subordination to the civil power[.]" Oregon Constitution, Article 1, Section 27.

Not only is this reserved right guaranteed by the state of Oregon, it is guaranteed by the Federal government, not through the Heller and McDonald cases mentioned above, but even more directly by acceptance of these peoples declared rights through their constitution protecting them and me. See the Federal Constitution, 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

It is not a federal right, but a right guaranteed to the people through the state to bear arms for our personal defense. Because the state reserved this to us with no further commentary it is not up to the Oregon State Legislature to determine limitations (gun controls) on this fundamental guaranteed right. It follows we should not have to obtain a license to carry a concealed firearms. We should not be restricted on the highways and byways in our travels with arms. We should not stand for limitations on the arms we choose to bear, whether single shot, semi automatic, or fully automatic. We should reject limitations on the magazine sizes of those arms.

There is a principal announced in all of the federal courts and state courts. That which government can regulate it can regulate to extinction. Each and every such arms regulation flies in the face of our guaranteed fundamental constitutional rights. It not only diminishes that right but can diminish that right to the point of extinction of any such rights we allow to be regulated.

Today we are challenged by the prostitutes and whores of government, those who attack the very foundations of freedom among which is the ability to stay free. They are those who would bend our will by force of unconstitutional laws such that we become political slaves, and even worse, actual slaves. As a necessary part of that process, to be successful they have to disarm us. They color those actions under the broad brushed tyranny of good intentions, and like the proverbial frog swimming in the pot, as they slowly turn up the heat of restrictions we will languish, and we will perish if we do nothing about it.

Our state, the state of Oregon, has declared that, "[A]ll men, when they form a social compact are equal in right: that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; and they have at all times a right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may thing proper." Oregon Constitution Article 1, Section 1.

As I go to bed tonight I shall pray for understanding of what 1:1 means and how to implement it in the face of the political whores and prostitutes who would deny me my fundamental God given constitutional rights. I give thanks my 1st Amendment Right has yet to be so burdened I cannot freely engage political free speech.

Reloading vs. buying ammo during Obama rule.

 Like everybody, I am not having the easiest time finding ammo for the AR-15 (.223), or for the .308

 I ordered a Dillon 650 multistage reloader, but it will not come for 8-12 weeks. Even then, reloading only saves money if you do not overspend on your supplies. I have been shopping for ammunition like crazy. Having a hard time finding it. And going crazy.

 Most of the .223 ammunition I have found is between .75 cents and $1 a round. On bulk ammo .com a thousand rounds was going for $905. At small gun stores I found boxes of twenty  for $15.95. At the gun show a box of 500 was going for $435 (and it was selling like crazy). People are showing up to the gun shows with handcarts hoping to find almost anything. (I saw people buying Wolf ammo for $10 a box). This is in the Willamette Valley in western Oregon.

  And then there is me. I am just as hungry for ammo as everyone else but I'll be damned if I am going to pay to the gougers just because they think they can profit from the needy. Don't get me wrong. I believe in supply and demand, but the ammunition manufacturers have not seemed to raise their prices to the dealers. Over the last four weeks I have only been able to get my hands on about 1700 rounds, but I have only paid .30-.40 cents a round.

  DILIGENCE and PERSEVERANCE.

  I have been calling box stores and gun stores and checking online. This is a pain in the ass for some, but it pays off. Today I got 100 rounds for 27.78

  Two days ago 160 rounds for 64.00

  The most I have paid for ammo in the last month and a half is $90 for 200 rounds at the NEW Tannerite store in Eugene.

  Places to check:

Wal-Mart

Bi-Mart

Big 5

Check the manufacturer websites.

  Anybody want to trade ammo for your concealed handgun class?

What other good ideas do you have?

Where is a good place to get ammo?