If Fear Of Bullets Isn't Enough to Promote Gun Control, Then Maybe Fear Of Bullets Can Help

Interesting article, but N. is dubious:

I’m afraid I don’t have much confidence in the piece when it says, “OSHA sets the permissible level of atmospheric lead at 50 micrograms/meter2”, but then I don’t need more reasons than I already have to be afraid of bullets!

I reply:

Maybe that's a spatial average when bullets are flying!

Here's a quote:

A recent report from the National Academy of Sciences found that OSHA lead exposure standards are too lax to protect military firing range employees.

...Lead is found in bullets as well as the explosive that ignites gunpowder. When a bullet is fired, it gets so hot that that lead actually vaporizes. Firing range employees breathe in the lead fumes, as well as ingest lead dust that settles on their body and clothes. OSHA sets the permissible level of atmospheric lead at 50 micrograms/meter2, but the report found that level frequently exceeded at military firing ranges, sometimes by several orders of magnitude.

...The new report also finds OSHA's blood lead level recommendation of 40 µg/dL or lower to be too high. That limit hasn't changed since 1978, but subsequent research has found health problems at blood lead levels as low as 5 µg/dL.