We got word yesterday that a legislative effort to repeal 2013's landmark law that will require nonlead ammunition in hunting by 2019 has been quietly withdrawn. Assembly Bill 395 would have repealed Assembly Bill 711, which was co-sponsored by Audubon California, Humane Society of the United States and Defenders of Wildlife. The bill was scheduled to be heard in the Assembly's Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee on April 29. Earlier this year, nearly 40 groups from conservation, animal protection, environmental justice, and public health wrote a letter to the bill's author asking that it be withdrawn, citing the proven dangers to wildlife and people from the use of lead ammunition. Just last week, the State Fish and Game Commission enacted regulations to implement AB 711.