Very recently, the European Commission submitted a formal request to ECHA (the European Chemical Agency) to conduct a study and consultation aimed at achieving a total ban on lead-based ammunition.

In order to avoid the "mistakes" that – in their eyes – nullified their gun-grabbing efforts with the Firearms directive (such as the missing impact assessment and many others that laid grounds for a formal complaint lodged by the Czech government in front of the European Court of Justice), the European Commission started a public consultation about "restrictions of lead in shot in wetlands and any other uses of lead ammunition (other than lead shot in wetlands), including hunting in other terrains than wetlands and target shooting", and even on "lead weights for fishing"!