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Basic safety precautions are fine.

To put it in perspective: millions of people in the US regularly handle ammunition and shoot firearms at indoor ranges. Those contain lead in many forms: the projectile itself, lead fulminate in the primer compounds, lead suspended in the air after firing, etc.

You make sure to have adequate ventilation, don’t touch your face, and wash your hands when you’re done. It’s important, yes, but not really that big a deal.



Given that the effects of lead tend to be a subtle change in mental state, and show up months or years later, we really don’t know that it’s fine.




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