Proposed lead ammo ban to cause huge price jump, shortages

Friday, September 19, 2014
By Paul Martin

by Chris Eger
Guns.com
9/18/14

Industry groups presented a study on the economic impact of California’s ban on the use of traditional lead ammunition in hunting, citing that the legislation could triple ammo prices and force hunters out of the sport.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation compiled the 15-page study with Southwick Associates, a fish and wildlife market statistics and economics researcher, and presented it before the Wildlife Resource Committee of the California Fish and Game Commission at a public hearing in Sacramento on Wednesday.

The report focuses on the economic impact of the now-enacted Assembly Bill 711 on hunters, retailers and manufacturers as well as its effect on the Golden State overall. The bill, signed into law in 2013 and scheduled to be phased in over the next five years, largely bans traditional lead ammo in many areas.

The effects will be dire and could include as many as a third of the state’s sportsmen hanging up their guns due to a huge increase in ammunition prices, which are expected to rise more than three-fold, the report argues.

“Based on a survey of California hunters, higher ammunition prices will drive 36 percent of California hunters to stop hunting or reduce their participation,” reads the study. “An additional 10 percent were unsure if they would continue to hunt and another 23 percent said they would likely hunt less than in recent years.”

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