State Assemblyman Steven Englebright, Democrat from Setauket, has pushed his bill through the State legislature to ban the sale of lead split shots in the State of New York! The bill still needs to be signed by Pataki (not sure if Pataki has decided yet which way he wants to vote).
This is the second of several stages that environmentalists plan to lobby. The first phase was the outlaw of lead shot for shotguns. The next step will be the ban of the USE of lead split shots. Then the focus will be on the sale of lead sinkers OVER one ounce. The final step will be the the ban of the USE of lead sinkers of any weight.
If you haven't been following this one, the purpose of the bill is to protect waterfowl. However, the lobbyists could not show enough evidence about the effects of split shot sinkers on the environment to get the bill passed so they threw in the added "alert" that anglers, including children, often place the lead splitshots in our mouths to close them with our teeth. This was enough of alarming news to convince the legislature that lead splitshots are a bad thing.
I don't know about you, but I've been closing splitshots with my teeth since I was four. So did my father, and so did his. I believe the ban also applies to the sale of small lead jigheads.
This is the second of several stages that environmentalists plan to lobby. The first phase was the outlaw of lead shot for shotguns. The next step will be the ban of the USE of lead split shots. Then the focus will be on the sale of lead sinkers OVER one ounce. The final step will be the the ban of the USE of lead sinkers of any weight.
If you haven't been following this one, the purpose of the bill is to protect waterfowl. However, the lobbyists could not show enough evidence about the effects of split shot sinkers on the environment to get the bill passed so they threw in the added "alert" that anglers, including children, often place the lead splitshots in our mouths to close them with our teeth. This was enough of alarming news to convince the legislature that lead splitshots are a bad thing.
I don't know about you, but I've been closing splitshots with my teeth since I was four. So did my father, and so did his. I believe the ban also applies to the sale of small lead jigheads.