Sporting ammunition

Besides fibers and films, Dr. Gajewski s Sparte had made sporting ammunition in a small factory at Rottweil. He remained an enthusiastic hunter. 

We couldn t believe our ears. Sprecher reminded the court that even the defense appreciated that "who operated Dynamit A.G." was not the only question. Suppose Farben owned less than 50 per cent (They owned a good deal more, really.) The Farben directors still knew that Dynamit A.G. couldn t put out a pound of explosives without Farben s preliminary products. Without stabilizers, Dynamit A.G. couldn t even make sporting ammunition. Stabilizers were the agents that prevented premature explosion in gunpowder. And Farben made all the stabilizers in Germany. The Farben directors knew, too, how many other preliminary products they were shipping to Dynamit A.G. 

The toxic effects of lead on animals other than humans and on plants have been less extensively studied. One area of special concern, however, relates to animals that are hunted and killed for sport. Studies have shown, for example, that seven times more waterfowl die as a result of lead poisoning from lead in bullets than from gunshots by human hunters. For this reason, manufacturers of ammunition are finding substitutes for the lead that had previously been the primary component of most bullets. 

Belgrano (Ref 31, p 611) describes only bassoii da caccia which are cardboard or plastic cartridge cases used in sporting (hunting) ammunition... 

Sporting Powders (Sporting Smokeless Propellants) and Ammunition. See under Bulk and Condensed Powders in Vol 2, B322-L to B323-L and Pyrodex in Vol 8, P500-L Current US manufd sporting powders are as follows ... 

Air contamination with health-impairing pollutants gave rise to the demand for sport ammunition free from lead, barium and mercury. 

Sporting ammunition describes rifle and handgun ammunition for hunting and target practice. Commercial hunting bullets, ranging in size from around 6 to 12mm, may differ from the conical shape of military bullets in that they... 

In order to limit the input of lead into the environment many regulatory controls for the use of lead products have been introduced. Restrictions on the use of lead in paint and in automotive fuel are widespread. Other measures include bans on the use of lead shot for sporting ammunition and restrictions on the lead content of waste materials. Most of these regulatory restrictions are specific to individual countries, but one international treaty under the administration of the United Nations Environmental Program is the Basel Convention to control the cross border transfer of industrial... 

More than half of the lead produced is used to make electrodes for lead storage batteries. The manufacture of military and sporting ammunition also consumes a significant fraction of the lead produced. Because lead resists attack from many corrosive substances, the metal is also used to make chemical plant equipment. 

Although use of several metallic salts of 4,6-DNBF is protected by patent literature (e.g., barium salt [39]) only the potassium salt has been practically used in explosion initiating compositiOTis. It has been reported in both military and commercial applications in the USA since the early 1950s [40]. The potassium salt has been proposed as a nontoxic replacement of lead styphnate for primers for hunting and sporting ammunition [16],... 

A movement to find substitute materials has reduced the amount of lead used in construction, cables and containers, and all sorts of other products. The shooting sports and the industry that supports them have also made an Initial move away from relying solely on lead for ammunition. .. though that move is contentious and has not happened automatically or overnight. The problem of lead poisoning in waterfowl due to ingestion of lead shot was documented as early as 1894. 

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, responded that they rejected NFS s categorization of traditional ammunition as a health threat NSSF noted that no scientific evidence supports restricting ammunition containing lead components and that banning such traditional bullets was arbitrary and a drastic policy decision unsupported by science. ... 

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