Thread: Lead Free Ammo Laws?

What happened in the UK is that a few "Notable deerstalkers " have been pushing for lead free bullets because they were tinkering with them and wanted to have their names at the bottom of the hunting papers they were writing for recognised. And because paper does not refuse ink, they wrote miles of articles, including all kind of research papers notably from USA on the subject that could favour their cause, on how it killed the same or better than conventional projectiles, and how it was so much better for Health and safety (being also the other main argument), when there was hardly any case of people dying of lead secondary poisoning by ingestion.

I wonder if behind all that there is not a push from certain bullet manufacturers to push their products through the market , using the specialised press and media.
You see to run a plant manufacturing cup and core bullets, you need a lot of specialised staff that can maintain and run the complicated machinery and processes,which is a high cost.
On the other side , one might be able to start to set up a basic copper bullet factory for less than 1million$ investment with a cnc Swiss lathe.
The machinery needs only a handful of qualified staffs. If the market evolve in one particular direction they can adapt pretty quickly and follow the trend easily.
A cup and core bullet plant relies on the machinery and expertise they have acquired over decades. I am not sure we will ever see another major new player coming out for that style of manufacturing. The investment is simply too expensive compared to what a cnc lathe can do.

Coming back to the uk, the trade and stalkers have only 1 year to finish to shoot their stock of cup and core bullets before switching to copper. One wonder if there will be enough to supply the demand? Or maybe there will be a lot of headshots and headless carcasses arriving at the game dealers if the supply is not there!