Danger of lead while cleaning? - Page 3

Bark'n · August 6th, 2008, 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by QKShooter

what really caused them health problems is that they sprinkled powered Lead on their food because it added a unique metallic sweetness.

Gives whole new meaning to "pass the salt & pepper" please.

rdoggsilva · August 6th, 2008, 04:54 AM

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Originally Posted by PaulJ

it just doesn't hurt to wash your hands once in a while ;-)

I agree with that. Also wash my hands after cleaning or reloading.

Statesman · August 6th, 2008, 08:51 AM

The Romans discovered lead was sweet, and began making containers to store their food & water in made of lead. This eventually lead to forms of insanity. Granted, you'd have to be exposed to large quantities of it. The warnings you see on boxes of ammo are probably there to fend off the lawyers in our sue happy country.

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Originally Posted by gg12

Lead poisoning is mainly something to worrry about in fetuses and children, adults are not as suspectible.

Remodeling an older home and inhaling large amounts of dust MIGHT put you at risk of breathing in enough lead dust to cause a problem, but cleaning your gun (full metal jacket or just plain jane lead bullets, one gun or twenty guns) doesn't put enough lead in the air to matter, even to a child or fetus.

Now if you chew on the bullets or eat the little pieces of lead you clean out of your gun, well you have issues much larger than lead poisoning.

dukalmighty · August 6th, 2008, 12:39 PM

I was under the impression that the romans drank wine out of lead goblets and the corrosive wine ate caused the wine to become contaminated with lead

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