Yes, a small dose of lead isn’t a serious problem, it’s repeated exposure, leaded gas (where it is still used), lead drinking water pipes (and even plastic pipes with brass (contains lead) fittings), and those lead wine flagons people use at toga parties. Of course, lead evolved as a vessel and pipework material not only because it is malleable and non-porous, but because it sweetened the wine slightly.

I did not find your article objectionable. You were just reporting the facts.

It has been known for quite some time that “shooters” expose themselves to unhealthy levels of lead while shooting and while manufacturing ammunition. (I used to buy lead from operators of linotype machines, remelt it and recast it into the desired shape and size in my workshop. Historically, I was always around bare and running selinium rectifiers — guess I’m a walking collector of pollution).

But, ammunition manufacturers and others (Oak Ridge Laboratory) are working to solve this problem. Lead free ammunition is on the way — any aware shooter should know this. The question is cost and the intended effect of the bullet.

Thus, I think the Constitution on this side of the pond is safe.

It’s evolution of science. Just think, your ancestors and my ancestors drank their favorite brew out of lead cups — we know not to do that now.

Good article. I didn’t see it as a political position — and that comes from one who thinks that the right to bear arms is just that, nothing less, a “right” that must be defended — even though I have quit being a shooter, but only out of becoming bored. Pun intended.