sw florida, work to ban lead in your state - stay out of mine. We like our lead bullets. I cast my own out of melted down wheelweights. Fun, efficient, cheap, and hasn't hurt a single condor.
If hunters are given free lead free ammo by our G&F, (never heard of that, and I sold ammo for a few years), that's great, but that's a voluntary thing, not mandated. All the all copper ammo I DID see for sale is no longer on the market. Fiocchi came out with lead free range ammo 7 years ago, was on the shelf/off the shelf.
homefires, I hope you meant armor piercing. Amer pursing sounds like your pursuing Americans.... But, steel core mil surpus ammo is not generally classified as AP unless BATFE has determined a handgun chambered in this caliber exists - refer to the famous ban on importing/selling the Chinese 7.62x39mm ammo after Olympic Arms made thier first AR pistol many years ago. Some of that policy may have been changed in the intervening years; I am no longer in the industry, and don't have any milsurp ammo any more. Much steel core 7.62x54R is available online, and it is not classified as AP. Probably because nobody is crazy enough to buy/build a pistol in that caliber...
Last time I checked, AZ does ban milsurp from hunting, as it is ball ammo, not designed to expand in soft tissue. Hunting ammo must be of an expanding nature. That is a more humane way to hunt.
And yes, some of this does come from the Calirefugees who disscovered that selling thier shack in SanFran makes enough money to buy a mansion in Tucson. Oh well. We will beat them again. Check our legislative record - we keep loosening firearm related laws, and have started it again - legislature went into session on the 7th, pro gun bills already filed. I'll ask my congresscritter to file one banning anyone from banning lead ammunition.