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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:someone once pointed out that nowadays the most direct lead exposure is from lead ammo casings, and it definitely makes u wonder about the gun chuds
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:someone once pointed out that nowadays the most direct lead exposure is from lead ammo casings, and it definitely makes u wonder about the gun chuds indoor ranges are absolutely disgusting with lead dust and I don't wonder at all, it's pretty obvious
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Feb 26, 2020 22:32
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The cases are made from brass though
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Feb 26, 2020 22:34
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FMguru posted:Firing ranges are some of the most lead-contaminated places in the country. so lead contaminated they dig it up and make it into new bullets
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one local range expanded its' range and the construction workers were so contaminated by it, that his kids tested positive for lead poisoning http://projects.seattletimes.com/2014/loaded-with-lead/2/ https://projects.seattletimes.com/2014/loaded-with-lead/1/
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Feb 26, 2020 22:45
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Don't get me wrong, I sure as hell don't want to be the one digging up the sand berm full of lead.
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Feb 26, 2020 22:48
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:someone once pointed out that nowadays the most direct lead exposure is from lead ammo casings, and it definitely makes u wonder about the gun chuds Call me crazy but I don't understand why we still use lead ammunition domestically. Gun people can probably explain it to me but as a random idiot bystander it just seems we're polluting the countryside and game animals with lead.
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Feb 26, 2020 23:47
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I think one of the big ironies of fake news bullshit is that we've known about this problem since 2009 when FYID posted a bunch of goatse links during the Iranian election. Critters known their platform had enormous misinformation potential but did nothing except to add some blue checks.
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Feb 26, 2020 23:51
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Hillary 2020 posted:Call me crazy but I don't understand why we still use lead ammunition domestically. Gun people can probably explain it to me but as a random idiot bystander it just seems we're polluting the countryside and game animals with lead. You should see how mad gun chuds get about legislation mandating non-lead shotgun ammo for hunting. Mind you, not all hunting, just waterfowl.
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Hillary 2020 posted:Call me crazy but I don't understand why we still use lead ammunition domestically. Gun people can probably explain it to me but as a random idiot bystander it just seems we're polluting the countryside and game animals with lead. It's cheap and does bullet-y type jobs way better than the much more expensive alternatives There is lead-free shot for birding but people only buy it when forced to and that's like the least demanding possible niche If you mean "why hasn't America legislated away the public health problems with widespread gun ownership", lol A Wizard of Goatse has issued a correction as of 00:02 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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Hillary 2020 posted:Call me crazy but I don't understand why we still use lead ammunition domestically. Gun people can probably explain it to me but as a random idiot bystander it just seems we're polluting the countryside and game animals with lead. on a bmw forum i witnessed a crazy gun nut claim that california banning lead ammunition use in areas that affect condors was a conspiracy to stop gun owners from...i dont know really
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There is some new interest in copper bullets these days, IIRC its for big game where you don't want deformation of the bullet which happens to lead. But otherwise lead is dense, and that makes it a good projectile.
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Lead really is a wonder metal - cheap, abundant, non-reactive, easy to extract, easy to work by hand, and extremely dense. it would have a thousand and one uses except for that whole, uh, neurotoxicity thing.
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Aside from it being cheaper than the alternatives and "how dare the government tell me not to do something," it's not unlikely these people are sitting on thousands of rounds that they panic bought during the obama administration or 2016.
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Wait, does this mean "depleted uranium rounds" is just a fancy way of saying "lead rounds"? Yes I know that's not what they're referring to. :joke:
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Volcott posted:Aside from it being cheaper than the alternatives and "how dare the government tell me not to do something," it's not unlikely these people are sitting on thousands of rounds that they panic bought during the obama administration or 2016. Lead doesn't cause problems by just being around, it need to be a vapor or form a compound with something.
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weird how all those redblooded american sport fishermen didn't freak out about leadless fishing weights being introduced
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Aren't lead fishing weights still a thing? I don't fish but I'm pretty sure I saw them for sale recently.
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they are, but the leadless stuff is marketed as "nontoxic" they're mostly bismuth iirc
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Hillary 2020 posted:Call me crazy but I don't understand why we still use lead ammunition domestically. Gun people can probably explain it to me but as a random idiot bystander it just seems we're polluting the countryside and game animals with lead. rifling, lead adjusts to the grooves so the bullet is spun properly. Steel doesn't and damages it and then flies off god knows where guns that don't require rifling like shotguns, steelshot is perfectly fine to use, but people still get furious because they hate change and right down to their very core do not care if a water supply is poisoned if it means they can enjoy themselves for an afternoon in a way that doesn't cost them an extra couple dollars taqueso posted:Aren't lead fishing weights still a thing? I don't fish but I'm pretty sure I saw them for sale recently. they are and people should really not be using them anymore
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taqueso posted:so lead contaminated they dig it up and make it into new bullets there's a whole bunch of videos on youtube of people doing this on an amateur basis and it's them melting down like 8 pounds of lead in a poorly ventilated garage or shack lol
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FMguru posted:Lead really is a wonder metal - cheap, abundant, non-reactive, easy to extract, easy to work by hand, and extremely dense. it would have a thousand and one uses except for that whole, uh, neurotoxicity thing. well, looks like it's time to turn to genetic engineering to unlock the power of lead through lead-based life
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Epic High Five posted:there's a whole bunch of videos on youtube of people doing this on an amateur basis and it's them melting down like 8 pounds of lead in a poorly ventilated garage or shack lol
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FMguru posted:Lead really is a wonder metal - cheap, abundant, non-reactive, easy to extract, easy to work by hand, and extremely dense. it would have a thousand and one uses except for that whole, uh, neurotoxicity thing. Lead, mercury, and asbestos were the building blocks of early industrial society and it's absolutely wild how much poo poo people packed them in before everyone started worrying about poo poo like "killing your customers" A Wizard of Goatse has issued a correction as of 00:44 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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they were still using asbestos insulation in the 90s lol
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Hillary 2020 posted:Call me crazy but I don't understand why we still use lead ammunition domestically. Gun people can probably explain it to me but as a random idiot bystander it just seems we're polluting the countryside and game animals with lead. The us military is moving away from using lead in any ammunition
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Lead, mercury, and asbestos were the building blocks of early industrial society and it's absolutely wild how much poo poo people packed them in before everyone started worrying about poo poo like "killing your customers" Not to mention coal.
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A Bakers Cousin posted:The us military is moving away from using lead in any ammunition Thank god for depleted uranium I guess?
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doingitwrong posted:Thank god for depleted uranium I guess? put that in domestic ammo, call it military grade
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doingitwrong posted:Thank god for depleted uranium I guess? Yeah they are just using different dense metals.
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Halloween Jack posted:For the hardcore Trump supporters, his campaign took on the character of a crusade. Hell, you saw some of that on this forum in the immediate aftermath of 11/9. Remember TheSaurus? Huge massive gleeful nazi meltdown banme within days of the election. There were others in GBS doing the same in the month or so afterwards.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Not to mention coal. I was gonna say honorable mention to that and cyanide but we still use both all the fuckin time
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Hillary 2020 posted:Call me crazy but I don't understand why we still use lead ammunition domestically. Gun people can probably explain it to me but as a random idiot bystander it just seems we're polluting the countryside and game animals with lead. gun people are extremely powerfully politically and also extremely stupid
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Casimir Radon posted:What worries me is that stories about race based bullying being all the rage these days keeps coming up on the news. Yesterday a work friend was writing a letter to a school sports league because he'd been a game over the weekend where students from the rival school had been making monkey noises at their players. That kind of poo poo wouldn't have happened when I was in high school, mind you I went to public school and not some lovely prep school. Pewdiepie's core demographic reaching adulthood concerns me a bit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...hem-coach-says/ quote:Youth football coach Marcus Burkley knew there would be backlash if his players knelt during the national anthem. He just never thought it would be this severe.
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old white people get insanely angry when black people kneel during the flag song, it's amazing
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:old white people get insanely angry when black people kneel during the flag song, it's amazing yeah that really really really broke their minds I’d just say “knelling is a sign of respect ???” but it would get no where lol like kneeling is literally respectful hahah
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We should start having kneeling parties, to own the libs or whoever
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taqueso posted:We should start having kneeling parties, to own the libs or whoever
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I was gonna say honorable mention to that and cyanide but we still use both all the fuckin time Yeah but we don't have a REASON to use coal (for what it was most.used back then) anymore.
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