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Competition shooters? They're not likely to touch lead, unless they fatally disobey shooting range safety rules.

Now the people manufacturing the bullets for those competition shooters... they need lead tests.

It’s not obvious, but practice enough at indoor ranges or reload your own competition ammo long enough. I have heard firsthand accounts from shooters who at some point weren’t feeling well, got tested, and found out they needed to be a lot more careful with their lead exposure.

Interesting. I'm obviously not from a shooting culture :)

Don't be hard on yourself. None of us are born with this knowledge :-)

If you ever shoot, just remember it is a really good idea to wash your hands afterwards (using the dlead soap if possible). It is not a bad idea to have a change of clothes and to wash your clothes right away as well.

A small amount of lead makes its way out of the chamber in the form of dust and fumes after shooting. It’s quite easy to breath this in or get it on your hands and accidentally ingest it. Not enough to matter for someone who occasionally goes to the range, but significant for those shooting nearly daily, especially if shooting indoors.

the obvious solution is to switch to depleted uranium ammo

A lot of primers have lead, and the dust ends up in the air.

The primers in the ammunition contain a lead compound

Doesn't some of the lead end up in the air?

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