Indoor Range - No Lead Bullets?

[PJgunner]

"I don't think you can absorb it directly through the skin. I think that applies to all heavy metals. A good rule is an ounce of prevention............but"

How many times have you eaten birds you've shot and maybe swallowed a few pieces of shot. it'll pass right on through.
Regarding absorption through the skin, yes and no. You've seen those very old cartridges where the bullet has turned white with lead oxide? That white powder is redily absorbed through the skin. I don't think a bullet casting elcetric pot will get hot enough to cause elad to evaprate, at least mine don't, but if you're using something like a Coleman stove where there is no thermostat to control the temperature, now there could be a problem with lead evaporation and brathing the stuff in. it's not so much of a problem with lead levels in the body. Today, housed are no longer painted with lead based paint. Tetra/ethyl lead is no longer used in gasoline so that's remove massive quantities of lead from the air. Too bad. That stuff made my 66 Mustang go like a bat out of hell.
My ex-son-in law used to be a mechanic for a Ford dealership and they sent him to a school to be an emmissions specialist. he was told that the fumes from the current unleaded garbage we have to stick in our cars actually affects your imminue system in a negative way. You don't her anything about that from the ecofreaks.
How many of us here used to play with mercury as a kid? I sure did. I was about 6 or 7 when I came dowm with Scarlet Fever. The fever and chills with the attendant teeth chattering and bobily tremor was something else. They tried to take my temperature one time and I bit clean through the thermometer and ended up swallowing some glass and mercury. The doctor said to not worry, it'll just pass though. Today, if that doctor used a mercurial thermometer and I bit through it, I'd have some scumbad shyter trying to get me to sue the doctor.
What a sad state of affairs this country has become.
Paul B.