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Literally first link is the link that is under discussion here. It has no data about lead levels, and is what I pointed out.
Second link, your own quoted bit of it says "may be"
Third link,
And
Which follows into the 4th study, that is just a repeat of the 3rd link...
Starts off with:
Again may be...why? Because it's very difficult to correlate the two, because...as the study states:
Most people who live or work in clean environments and have money usually are not firearm owners. Aka a large portion of firearm owners are not rich. So they have occupations that are more likely to be around lead exposure, and they're more likely to live in older parts of a city or area that has more lead exposure via the soil like I pointed out.
I suggest you read your own links before you call out my reading comprehension. None of these links actively provide evidence that firearms are a major source of lead exposure...as I stated above, they should be looking at the military more than someone shooting for a whooping 30mins a month.
I agree study link number 4....
You are being incredibly selective in your reading and it's showing in your highlights. You deliberately didn't highlight the word "licensure" for instance in one of your quotes. You are literally following the climate denier playbook here and selectively choosing words in the non-conclusion parts of studies and glossing over the data parts. I don't know what to tell you other than have a nice day, cause I, nor the absolute mountain of evidence to the contrary of your belief, is going to convince you otherwise.
Just note to anyone else that stumbles upon this thread, there are literally hundreds of studies that have shown that firearm use and lead levels have a direct correlation. Here's an example of a review of some of those studies done by the NIH in regards to specifically firing ranges:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5379568/
Furthermore the conclusion is not a "may be" no matter how much anyone wishes it to be so: