If it's here not yet, it will be everywhere soon enough. Once the "bit is in the mouth", with government they won't rest. Remember the steel shot, fiasco, some states signed on day one, some sued to maintain the use of lead, and proceeded to slow the progress, but eventually they fell into line. There are good acceptable shot, but boy is it costly, I use it in old doubles, "nice shot". I got some ITX recently and am working up a loads. I used bismuth before, it is very different to shoot, and practice with expensive ammo is virtually certain! I doubt that lead shot makes a dent in the toxicity of the state , compared to L.A. smog, farm chemicals in the water, E.P.A. super-fund sites from industry or military establishments , degradation of timber harvest, or just the vast number of people who live there! Space is the real villain, humans are a "user" population. Seems to fall on the evil bambi hunters to right the world and save the doo-doo bird condors! Forget the condo residential developers, who eat space in gouts. We have the dairy Farmers as friends they have to have a manure field plan or they are ruled out on the neighborhood!