Mandatory Gun Safety? Yay or Nay?

[Ivy Mike]

If I'm at my club range we have a restroom where we can wash hands after shooting. When I'm hunting I wear gloves & usually shower & change clothes after a hunt because you don't know what you could get into in the woods.

yeah, tracking ticks through the house is usually bad juju.

 

[Bartojc]

When shooting at a real range I wash before leaving. My indoor range has sinks specifically for this right out side the access to the range. The outdoor range i frequent I use the mend room on the way out. If I'm out on our hunting property I try to wipe hands, but if not i clean up upon arriving home. I'm not sure I shoot enough for it to matter, but better safe than sorry.

-Jeff

 

[Hartkopf]

Aren't some of the signs of lead poisoning irritability and paranoia?

Are those actually the signs of lead poisoning? I don't have either but I'll be casting more this winter so I'll keep an eye on my mental state.

 

[RETG]

Never made a point of washing my hands after leaving the range, loading a magazine, etc., however I do wash then after cleaning a gun/mag just to remove the nasty smell. When I was a kid, I used to chew my lead pencils; might be why I was dumb enough to work for Uncle Sam for all those years. But I'm 73 and in excellent health except for some sciatic problems so a little extra lead is no problem.

 

[.308 Norma]

I'm with the government.

Your guns are a potential hazard to your health due to lead dust and fumes.

We will be taking your guns and ammo.

For your health. (It's a health emergency so we can do anything)

Yeah, and if you don't care about your own health, at least think about the children that are harmed by all of that "lead dust and fumes" coming from your guns and ammo.

 

[hawg]

It also leads to regulation that removes lead from gasoline and paint and water pipes.

That's another thing I used to do. I worked in my dads garage for years washing auto parts in leaded gas every day.

 

[Ivy Mike]

That's another thing I used to do. I worked in my dads garage for years washing auto parts in leaded gas every day.

Anybody born before 1986 got to breathe it fairly regularly because it could still be sold at any gas station for use as a road fuel. After that, it became much more difficult before finally being outlawed in 1996. It could still be used in things like airplanes and farm equipment after that but was a tiny fraction of the total market.

 

[entropy]

That's another thing I used to do. I worked in my dads garage for years washing auto parts in leaded gas every day.

My Dad started that at 10 in my Grandpa's garage, until he joined the PD at 21. I preferred the solvent tank.

 

[hawg]

My Dad started that at 10 in my Grandpa's garage, until he joined the PD at 21. I preferred the solvent tank.

I started at 9 or 10. I built my first engine by myself at 10. He had an old solvent tank from the 40's but the pump in it didn't work anymore. We kept an old pressure cooker in it half full of gas.

 

[.308 Norma]

I started at 9 or 10. I built my first engine by myself at 10. He had an old solvent tank from the 40's but the pump in it didn't work anymore. We kept an old pressure cooker in it half full of gas.

Not exactly related to the topic, but the light on the flexible arm mounted to the back of my loading bench is the one I removed from the back of solvent tank at work after the pump went bad, and they threw the whole thing out.

 

[jrmiddleton425]

HOLY MOLY SOME PEOPLE NEED TO READ BEFORE TYPING!

This thread, title aside, was a reminder to clean your hands after shooting, and a mod plugged for Hoppe's #9 Lead-B-Gone wipes.

 

[tactikel]

Mandatory NO! Never give them the power to mandate anything! They will abuse it for political purposes.

 

[murf]

osha guidelines: https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.1025AppA

hepa mask: https://pksafety.com/3m-8233-n100-particulate-respirator-each/ (note: this is a .3 micron filter and will not filter viruses (.012 microns))

mask wearing is not mandatory ... yet.

murf

 

[hso]

Your general physician can easily test

You don't need a physician, just a free standing testing center and a BLL/ZPP blood test from them.

 

[mcb]

You don't need a physician, just a free standing testing center and a BLL/ZPP blood test from them.

Never thought to just go to a testing center and ask them to do the test for me. I just assumed they would not do the test with out a doctors order, good to know thanks.

 

[ms6852]

Your title was duplicitous , and normally I would not agree with mandatory safety classes but the las 18 months at my range I have seen a huge increase in unsafe acts. Very obvious that the people are clueless and am not talking about young kids, in one case a father with his 2 teenage daughters was loading his 22 rifle with the barrel pointing at one of his daughters for example.

As for lead after decades of shooting, lead poisoning is the least of my worries. Getting home is more worrisome for me in trying to make it home safely from the range with thousands upon thousands of everyone texting and driving.

 

[ms6852]

Well I'm 64 now and nothing lead related has come up.

So you haven't peed bullets yet! Me neither!

 

[hawg]

So you haven't peed bullets yet! Me neither!

Kidney stones feel like bullets.

 

[ms6852]

Kidney stones feel like bullets.

. Hurt like one that is for sure.

 

[Robert]

Many aspects of firearms are or can be dangerous. Make sure you take the proper precautions. Or don't, you're an adult...