Nougat wrote:JTapper wrote:Trust me. This will have little to NO effect on the lead supply to ammunition manufacturers. Why should you listen to me? I work for the sole supplier to the largest ammunition manufacturing plant in the country. We also supply nearly 100% of the lead to another VERY well known manufacturer here in MN.
Ammunition manufacturers use mostly all antimonial lead. They use very little pure lead, and when they do, it's NOT primary lead.
There are primary and secondary lead smelters. Primary is smelted from mined galena, and secondary is smelted and refined from used lead-acid batteries and refined to specification. The price difference is huge, and there is NO difference in the physical properties, so there is no reason for a manufacturer of ammunition to use primary lead. The only reason the battery manufacturers use it is for high end critical performance batteries in sensitive environments. There are less trace elements in primary lead, which lead to less risk of gassing in the battery.
too bad the Truth doesn't matter. whoever is advertising the shutdown is the reason the prices will stay up. if it was just some guy who found out about the shutdown, it would only see as much hype as the above. since I've seen this brought up in a video games forum firearm thread, I hope you don't mind if I quote your post there to try to counter the propaganda-probably to little effect.
Also thanks for letting me know.
Have at it. Nothing drives me crazier than a misleading article. If you read carefully, they aren't lying about anything really, but they are severely misleading.
Oh no! No more primary lead in ammunition! Guess what, there isn't any use today anyways.
Does this mean the lead supply may be smaller? Maybe a little bit, but in the grand scheme of things, the Herkie plant is a drop in the bucket overall, and won't affect the ammo manufacturers. Today there is plenty of scrap, but my real worry for the future would be a shortage of scrap in the US. I'm guessing the scrap battery market could get pretty tight and nobody would ever think it would affect ammunition manufacturers, but that's where the real threat is.