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Ok, glad we can agree on this. I’m a bit senisitve to knee-jerk conclusions lately.

Education is the key, as always. I’ve been around firearms and shooters all my life, and have never heard about such lead poisoning. I bet there are a lot of others like me.

Thanks for the knowledge.

Lead toxicity is why household paint and gasoline no longer have lead compounds as ingredients. Metallic lead reacts with air, forming a non-reactive layer on exposed surfaces, but lead salts are easily absorbed by the body and can accumulate over time if exposure is continual. They interfere with enzyme functions and damage neurons in the brain and elsewhere.

Lead paint was abolished after researchers discovered children would eat lead paint peeling off walls, which apparently had a sweet taste. Tetraethyl lead in gasoline was banned some years later.