Sorry, but this is just another " Chicken Little " problem. The SKY IS NOT FALLING, folks.
There is NO empirical data that eating lead is harmful to adults. The human body is quite capable of removing all kinds of heavy metals, and does so daily.
I have a close friend and client who was a range officer/ instructor at our local police academy. When the PC police began testing everyone for lead in their blood, He and two other range instructors were removed from that teaching assignment, and given desk jobs, and classroom assignments instead. He was tested a year later, and his lead levels were well below the danger level, and well within norms. Each succeeding year he was checked, his lead levels dropped further, until there was no point to testing him further. BTW, Changes were made to the range, with ventilation systems and filter systems added above the firing line, and lead levels for the instructors who replaced him never approached the danger levels.
We are letting the government again get us to give up our rights over being SCARED about NOTHING!
Lead was shown to be dangerous to young infants( under 18 months old) because their brains were still developing after birth, and lead was being stored in the fatty tissue that became brain matter, leading to a number of central nervous system disorders, and retardation.
I don't know anyone that age who is shooting guns, or hunting with guns, and darn few who are eating meat! So, exactly how are they going to absorb lead bits that are often microscopic from deer meat shot with any rifle, much less a MLer????? Until a child develops teeth in their second and third years, eating meat is not an option.
Stop spreading the Left Wing propaganda to people without telling them the whole truth. Its been a long time since the country was focused on the lead problem long enough for people to understand the boundaries of the problem. It was a problem in big cities, where irresponsible parents allowed their children to eat paint peeling off old walls and window trim. These same parents didn't clean their homes, or take the simple precaution to watch their children and stop them from eating the pain chips. Instead of taking the children away from such neglectful parents( there were too many of them) government came up with the usual LIBERAL solution of blaming the manufacturers of paint, banning lead based paints, and requiring the paint factories, at their own expense, to retool to make paints differently. Hence, Latex paint was born.
I am not disputing that lead free paint creates a safer environment. I just grew up without knowing any kid in my town who ever ate paint chips. I don't remember how old I was when my parents told me not to each paint chips, but it was way before I reached kindergarten! And I grew up in the 40s and 50s, when lead based paints were still commonly used in homes. And my parents never allowed the paint to deteriorate to a condition where it was peeling off, and falling down on the floor, where we kids could easily reach it.
Lead is NOT harmful to the environment. Lead oxidizes so quickly that its quickly covered in either calcium, or iron oxides and neutralized. The lead you dig out of the backstop at your range will be surrounded with oxides. There is NO empirical evidence that lead bullets, or lead pellets in the environment harm any plant or animal.
