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Most gun owners use lead ammunition, yet half don’t practice hygiene behaviors after shooting (hsph.harvard.edu)

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[-] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 18 hours ago

Lead and fouling come out of the chamber when a round is extracted, you're breathing that in. Fouling has lead in it that gets over the internals of a firearm and the magazine. You're touching that. Lead is essentially vaporized out of the muzzle of the weapon, you breathe that in. There's lead on the casing, other particulars of rounds. When you clean that, unless you're wearing gloves you're exposing yourself to it. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not happening.

[-] freely1333@reddthat.com 7 points 17 hours ago

Gun owners are known for their solid stash of n95 masks for this very reason.

[-] myyass@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Laughs in P-100's

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world -5 points 17 hours ago

Cleaning sure, and as I stated elsewhere most rounds are jacketed with copper and a lead core, the only lead you're being exposed to is from the primer, which is around 40% lead derivatives and a massive amount of that is blasted out the muzzle, you're not breathing in much more if much more than natural back ground amounts of lead that's already in the soil around us.

Cleaning the firearm? Sure, but you shouldn't be cleaning it and then grabbing a sandwich without cleaning your hands anyways.

[-] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

What is it with dudes man, just wash your fucking hands. Why do we need to argue about this?

[-] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

It's not just that but if you smell the gun powder you're also being exposed to lead and other particulates. It's not about a huge amount of lead in a short amount of time but a long time of exposure to it. I'm not sure how it's hard to understand that but here we are.

[-] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I think the guy is just a fucking idiot who likes to argue, so he's going to argue in circles until he finds someone else to irritate.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I'm not arguing about it lol my entire point has been calling out this shit study, that's just feeding people who are antigun a "gun owners are stupid because of lead"...

Hell most of my comments have been about washing your hands after the range. It's just good hygiene anyways.