Lead residue?

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I was cleaning out my range bag tonight and pulled out my empty pistol ammo trays to throw away. My two year old found one of the plastic trays and asked if she could have one. I gave her one until I thought about lead residue. Should I be concerned about that or not? I am soaking it overnight in hot water and Dawn, but I'm not sure if it will take lead off. Safe, or should I just toss it?
 
Washing it in Dawn should suffice. Think about it... regular hand soap is sufficient to wash your hands after working with ammo.
 
Yes, lead residue is a legitimate concern. No way you should let your child play with anything that could possibly hurt her.
 
Better safe than sorry. Tell her you are getting her a special (insert favorite color here) one. Then order something you need from amazon to qualify for the free shipping and tack on an mtm box of her favorite color.
 
Agree with firesky... get her one in her favorite color, and keep the other one away.



Wash the new one as well, just to be safe.
 
Just a thought.

If lead was even a fraction as dangerous as the government leads us to believe there would be no one alive my age (74). We would have all died out at a young age from lead poisoning, Mercury poisoning. etc.
We grew up surrounded by lead. Our toys were made of lead and painted with lead paint. Everything was painted with lead paint. Baby cribs and play things were painted with lead paint, but of course young children would never chew on their things.
There's hardly a boy that didn't coat coins, using their fingers, with Mercury they got from the school science lab. Now you break a mercury thermometer they call a hazmet team.:rolleyes:

Whole towns were built on lead dirt from mines. The children played in lead dirt, breathing the dust, their whole young lives.

Very early water pipes were lead. Ever hear the saying, "He got hit with a lead pipe". Later copper pipes were joined with lead.

Even the auto gas contained lead.

Many shooters my age have been casting lead bullets and shooting lead bullets in poorly ventilated indoor ranges for over 50 years. No way would we still be alive if lead was even a fraction as dangerous as the government wants us to believe.

One thing to keep in mind.
Whenever a government agency is created, those people's primary job is to to make everyone think they are actually doing something useful and protecting us common people. The ATF and EPA are good examples.

So believe what you want but us old folks are living proof that the lead scare is wildly over rated.

But sure, protect your kids in every way possible.
 
M2 Carbine said:
If lead was even a fraction as dangerous as the government leads us to believe there would be no one alive my age (74). We would have all died out at a young age from lead poisoning, Mercury poisoning. etc.

The danger from low-level lead exposure for young children isn't death, but negative effects on brain development resulting in cognitive impairment. That is, it makes kids stupider. I think we can all agree that kids today are plenty stupid already, and don't need any additional help becoming more so.
 
Just a thought.

If lead was even a fraction as dangerous as the government leads us to believe there would be no one alive my age (74). We would have all died out at a young age from lead poisoning, Mercury poisoning. etc.
We grew up surrounded by lead. Our toys were made of lead and painted with lead paint. Everything was painted with lead paint. Baby cribs and play things were painted with lead paint, but of course young children would never chew on their things.
There's hardly a boy that didn't coat coins, using their fingers, with Mercury they got from the school science lab. Now you break a mercury thermometer they call a hazmet team.

Whole towns were built on lead dirt from mines. The children played in lead dirt, breathing the dust, their whole young lives.

Very early water pipes were lead. Ever hear the saying, "He got hit with a lead pipe". Later copper pipes were joined with lead.

Even the auto gas contained lead.

Many shooters my age have been casting lead bullets and shooting lead bullets in poorly ventilated indoor ranges for over 50 years. No way would we still be alive if lead was even a fraction as dangerous as the government wants us to believe.

One thing to keep in mind.
Whenever a government agency is created, those people's primary job is to to make everyone think they are actually doing something useful and protecting us common people. The ATF and EPA are good examples.

So believe what you want but us old folks are living proof that the lead scare is wildly over rated.

But sure, protect your kids in every way possible.

A breath of reason in a crazy world. Thanks for posting!
 
The danger from low-level lead exposure for young children isn't death, but negative effects on brain development resulting in cognitive impairment. That is, it makes kids stupider. I think we can all agree that kids today are plenty stupid already, and don't need any additional help becoming more so.

Ya! and we're the generation that put a man on the moon and placed man into the electronic age, which has now dumbed down the young folks.
 
I was cleaning out my range bag last night and had a couple of the plastic bullet trays that comes in factory ammo. My 2 yr old found one and wanted to play with it.

I gave one to her, then thought better of it, thinking there might be lead residue on it, so I soaked it in hot water and Dawn all night. Am I worried about nothing? If there was lead residue, would hot waterand Dawn take it off?
 
You didn't need to soak it. Any lead would be a fine powder and you could just wash it in the sink and then rinse the sink well.

She's more sensitive to ingested lead than we are and she'll certainly transfer it from her hands to her mouth. The dose makes the poison, so any dose she'd get off that one handling would be tiny and represent a negligible risk. Playing in Daddy's range bag/gear frequently might raise her blood led level a notch unless you spent a couple of times a week at the range, but not enough to be damaging except for that. If she spend a lot of time on a range with poor ventilation she would see her BLL go up and at a young age that would be risky.
 
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Any lead would be a fine powder

Or any of the witches brew of lead compounds created by lead styphnate primer compound.

It is on EVERYTHING from the range.

Just wash it off with soap and water.
 
Exactally what M2 Carbine said.
The younger generation has been drinking the government coolaid and turning into robots.
 
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