Safe firearm storage may reduce blood lead levels in children

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Tungsten, too.

The problem is really the cost. To go to the range and spend $30 would instead cost $150. I think the average person would buy the lead.

I'll ask a friend of mine who worked at a range recently to see what people are spending.

It's actually not the projectile that causes most of the lead exposure for shooters. It's the cartridge primers, they use lead styphnate for their explosive. Copper bullets are mainly to not spread lead through the environment where it can harm wildlife, and to avoid the risk of consuming lead in shot animals.

Sounds expensive

Aren't expanding bullets horrible and should be illegal?

Yeah, this is America (Woo, ayy)

Guns in my area (Word, my area)

I got the strap (Ayy, ayy)

I gotta carry 'em

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY

Well one would take a single federal law to change. Simple majority and signed by the president. The other requires 2/3rds of congress to agree or 2/3rds of states to agree. Nearly impossible

While I agree with you to an extent, I bet many people who use gun safes properly are also mindful of cleaning themselves and their clothing after shooting.

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Yeah, no one ever said they didn't. Or that any group was the same.

My point was that storage method didn't matter.

Any correlation is likely because someone who buys a gun and only plans to touch it "when they need it" are going to likely keep it in a safe.

Regardless of how well you think you're cleaning yourself tho, you're being lead home from shooting. It takes a lot to actually mitigate it, and even if you think you are, you're not.

I mean, have you ever seen a baby properly store a firearm? Exactly.

E: ban all babies! Ban all babies!

I think he is saying the parents have lead impaired thinking and thus are not good at storing the weapons?

It was a joke. But lead is in the environment. If toddlers are exposed to it, chances are the parents are too.

After they develop those neck muscles enough to hold their head steady they've got to start working on aim...

Hes suggesting infants with elevated blood lead levels probably have parents with elevated levels.

What do the lead free bullets do to the bore? Lead is one of the more lubricious metals available.

I'm tired and missed the word "lead", so I thought you were recommending free bullets and your comment about higher price made me wonder if Americans are getting paid to get bullets otherwise.

The bullets are lead-free, but usually the primers still contain lead which is a big, maybe the biggest, part of lead exposure with firearms, and it can be pretty hard to find ammo with lead-free primers, it also can get pricey, and by a lot of accounts they're less reliable than lead-based primers, so that's something to be taken into account.

Lead exposure from the ammo itself is usually pretty minimal, a lot of bullets are jacketed in copper so under normal handling you're not really going to come in contact with much if any lead. There will probably be some fouling in the barrel, but that's mostly contained in the barrel and unless you're cleaning your gun on the same towel you use to wash your face thats pretty easily contained with some basic precautions like wearing gloves and such (not that all, honestly probably not most gun owners take those precautions seriously)

But when the primer detonates it's putting out a lot of aerosolized lead compounds that kind of get all over the place because it's basically getting sprayed around you- on your hands, on your clothes, the outside of your gun, your range bag, you're inhaling it, etc.

So keeping your gun and shooting gear in a safe or something helps to keep that contained so it's not getting transferred from your gun and range bag to wherever you set it down.

in children

No there are multiple parties at play. The infants being exposed to lead are not the ones failing to store the guns correctly.