Former U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., is joining the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights groups to warn about a back-door attack on the Second Amendment by the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency. In a column posted on his website Sunday, West wrote about the Doe Run company’s lead-producing plant in Herculaneum, Mo., which is being forced to close after the EPA required it to spend up to $100 million on upgrades. Doe Run, the last primary lead smelter in the United States, has been around since 1892 but is closing on Dec. 31. West accused Obama of using the EPA to advance “backdoor gun control … while we are all distracted with Obamacare and Iran nuclear negotiations.” Read more at wnd/2013/12/obamas-clandestine-plan-to-make-bullets-vanish/#ZTVg3eXRCbrvlVdH.99
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:30:03 +0000
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