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Lead Dust From Firearms Can Pose A Silent Health Risk
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Mark A. Taff
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Firearms safety is key for people who use weapons at work or for recreational shooting. But one risk has been little acknowledged: Lead dust exposure.
In a standard bullet, a solid lead core wrapped in a copper jacket sits atop a stack of gunpowder and lead primer. When the gun fires, the primer ignites, the gunpowder lights, and some of the lead on the bullet boils. When the casing snaps out of the ejection port, lead particles trail behind it. As the bullet hurtles down the barrel of the gun, a shower of lead particles follows. |
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jdege
(5/11/2017)
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The primary lad risk from firearms is the lead styphnate in the primers, not the metallic lead in the bullets. Metallic lead is almost inert. It's the organic lead salts that absorb into the body.
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