Is Federal Overreach In Allowing Lead Poisoning Or In Restricting It?

     On March 2, 2017, the secretary of the interior revoked an earlier ban (order 219) barring lead ammunition and fishing tackle from federal land and water. Groups, including the NRA, opposed the ban, calling it federal overreach. Lead is poison for humans, fish, birds and other wildlife. Allowing for lead contamination is true overreach.