Gimme Back My Bullets

Gunning for green:

Three years ago, Phillip Loughlin made a choice he knew would brand him as an outsider with many of his fellow hunters: He decided to shoot "green" bullets.

"It made sense," Loughlin said of his switch to more environmentally friendly ammo, which doesn't contain lead. "I believe that we need to do a little bit to take care of the rest of the habitat and the environment -- not just what we want to shoot out of it."

Lead, a toxic metal that can lower the IQs of children, is the essential element in most ammunition on the market today.

Well, that last sentence would certainly be a possible explanation for the room-temperature average IQ in the CNN newsroom -- assuming they all drank a few gallons of lead paint before they were five. They're right, of course: lead is highly toxic... when propelled at a few thousand feet per second.