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Study: Gun range lead exposure poses ‘significant’ health risk
guns.com ^ | May 12, 2017 | Andrew Shepperson

Posted on 05/12/2017 2:41:44 PM PDT by PROCON

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To: JayElBee

The real question is...If you were a drooling imbecile.... how would you know?

Quick! Check your shirt and see if it is wet....


41 posted on 05/12/2017 3:37:33 PM PDT by nevergore
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To: Red Badger

Does that mean we can get our hands on some depleted uranium?


42 posted on 05/12/2017 3:39:09 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: NorthMountain
It’s a good idea (IMO) to wash up before eating/drinking/smoking

That is excellent advice. For a number of years I was putting in 3 hours a week at my local indoor range (2 hour defensive pistol class plus another hour practice). My instructor told us he had tested high for lead, and he suggested we all get tested. I came in high as well, at 19 micrograms per deciliter. The instructor instituted a pretty strict hand-washing regimen - full hand soap scrub during each break and immediately after class or practice was over. We were also advised to change shirts as soon as feasible after class. It worked pretty well. The lead levels slowly dropped, without reducing the amount of range time. My level never got down to the 5 micrograms per deciliter level, but it did get down below 10.

43 posted on 05/12/2017 3:40:04 PM PDT by NewMexLurker
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To: dgbrown

Roy Rogers had a shooting range in what is now the Chatsworth Park South.
Became a park around 1965 and a million people have walked thru it.
None dying from lead poisoning....
Video of the park being fixed up. Many other videos on right side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPZ7n680cRM

Roy Rogers skeet shooting range.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eGWbhJNnJt0/TngcFk4gj0I/AAAAAAAABBw/KHPe3TjrWTU/s1600/skeet_shooting.jpg

They closed the park down in 2008 due to lead contamination. Promised to re-open soon but here it is 2017 and they are now going to re-open. That is gov’t for you.

There was no lead contamination. The park use to be bigger but a section was turned into a golf course then sold to have townhomes built. I bet this was to grab the remaining land but the neighbors wanted the park opened.

The politicians tried to wait them out but had to give in but not before 9 years went by and $9 million was spent!

I use to go there and climb up in the hills to hike.


44 posted on 05/12/2017 3:42:39 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Just get a flock of Condors to clean up the lead, kind of like using a herd to goats for weed control.

Easy!


45 posted on 05/12/2017 3:45:58 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: Sasparilla
"If every round is suddenly worth $5,000, there’s going to be lots of instant millionaires from ammo already owned."

Dang! Currently my grandsons and I would have about $150,000,000 to spend on cars, boats, and lots-and-lots of new long guns...

I better check for the next Harrisburg gun show schedule. Can feel an investment woody coming on...

46 posted on 05/12/2017 3:49:14 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

And primers, and powder, and cases, and meltable lead alloys, and....


47 posted on 05/12/2017 3:50:09 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: NorthMountain

Women who worked electronics, soldering lead while smoking tended to get cancer later. Breathing hot lead vapors kills over time.


48 posted on 05/12/2017 3:58:52 PM PDT by TheNext (Just Build the Wall!)
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To: SunTzuWu

I actually read last week, that a huge number of health care surveys like this, are not able to be replicated.

A huge number of them. Maybe half, I think it said, maybe even higher than that. Of all these breaking news articles about one healthcare aspect, or another.

They are terrible. Healthcare surveys are the very worst, anywhere.

Yet they keep being trotted out. One after another.

Propaganda, mostly.


49 posted on 05/12/2017 4:02:19 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: PROCON

A homosexual penis is infinitely more dangerous than the lead at any gun range. The homosexual lifestyle is nothing but a STD amplifier.


50 posted on 05/12/2017 4:08:09 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: PROCON

That’s exactly what they do - “exactly how much exposure to lead is SAFE?!?!?”. #FAKESCIENCE


51 posted on 05/12/2017 4:18:08 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: alephnull

Exactly - so they’re saying this will result in a higher death rate among shooters, but they’re all deplorables anyway, so who cares?


52 posted on 05/12/2017 4:19:43 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: vetvetdoug
The homosexual lifestyle is nothing but a STD amplifier.

Yup, and CDC studies confirm that.

Yet it's celebrated and endorsed by the same government.

53 posted on 05/12/2017 4:24:08 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: Electric Graffiti

WHAT YOU SAID.


54 posted on 05/12/2017 4:34:14 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: PROCON

The (indoor) range where I’m a member here in MA had to shut down for a year, replace the entire HVAC system, and institute a bunch of strict policies because some kids in the juvenile program tested for elevated lead levels. Our membership costs have gone through the roof, but I have to admit it’s a much better environment in which to shoot. So the issue of lead at indoor ranges can be a real one. I have no doubt lefties will try to use it to impose all sorts of ridiculous restrictions. (I think back to Clinton’s Surgeon General going on about “safer bullets.” LOL!)


55 posted on 05/12/2017 4:38:28 PM PDT by Wheelman81
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To: PROCON

The gun grabbers will be on this in a hot minute.

https://www.google.com/#q=gabriel+filippelli


56 posted on 05/12/2017 4:42:07 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: cba123

As far as I know, as a combat vet, lead poisoning is the last thing thought about with enough in you to stop your heart and brain.

And I remember when there was an effort to change out lead for copper. You can reach copper toxicity just be eating food cooked off a non-treated copper pan. And the other part of these bullets are made with zinc. Zinc poisoning is just as deadly as copper. But if you can get to the ER fast enough so they flush your body in all openings fast and enough, you chances of recovery are good.

What a concept.

rwood


57 posted on 05/12/2017 4:46:23 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: PROCON

Abortion clinics are far more dangerous to unborn babies.


58 posted on 05/12/2017 4:57:06 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: PROCON

I question not only their data, their conclusions and wonder who funded the study. Were political views involved in the study and funding? Admirable timing for the LSM to jump on this right now (since the current Interior Secretary over-turned the Obama era ban on lead ammunition on federal lands in MARCH 2017). Note to the Greenies, ammunition isn’t the only common thing that has a lead component.


59 posted on 05/12/2017 4:57:22 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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To: Redwood71

One of my paternal grandmother’s babies (who would have been my uncle) died from eating food that was cooked in a copper kettle.

This happened nearly 100 years ago.


60 posted on 05/12/2017 5:03:09 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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