By AWR Hawkins
Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- On March 27th 2014 the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Division (EPA) raided USA Brass in Bozeman, Montana.
FBI agents were also on scene.
“USA Brass cleans and sells ammunition casings” which are then reused to make more ammunition.
According to NBC Montana, Agent Bert Mardsen said the EPA was “investigating alleged violations of environmental law.” He would not provide details of the investigation, except to say “there [was] no immediate threat to the public or the community” at the time of the raid.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, after an investigation of the company in 2013, said the company had “overexposed workers to lead and failed to provide basic safeguards to reduce lead exposure, including breathing protection and protective clothing.”
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AWR Hawkins writes for all the BIG sites, for Pajamas Media, for RedCounty.com, for Townhall.com and now AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.
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I am all for employee safety but why is it that they needed to stage a armed joint task force raid when simply shutting them down until the problems were fixed and slapping them with a fine would do it. That would take what three people maybe? How much did this raid in the name of public safety cost the tax payers?
Hmm, brass has very little lead in it to begin with. The only way to get high levels of exposer to the lead in the casings would have been to melt them down releasing fumes into the air that had lead in it. Just handling it and cleaning it would only give very MINOR exposure to lead. A couple of garlic pills and a few beers over the weekend would get rid of what little a body absorbed.
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“Spent Uranium” is denser than lead. What kind of “compliance posse” does the EPA put together if you’re fabricating projectiles out of that stuff? LOL
and so it continues….soon we will be left with sticks and rocks to defend ourselves
Possible violations of environmental law get a compliance visit and inspection – not a raid.