Sunday, December 27, 2009

Is it bad for you to hanlde guns and ammunition and not wash your hands right after?

i read text on ammo boxes saying that the lead in it can cause birth defects and other problems. but it seems like alot of people dont pay attention to things like that. so is it bad to handle a gun and not wash.|||LOL.





Miketyson26|||Wear surgical gloves, and you won%26#039;t have to be concerned about washing your hands.*!!|||It%26#039;s always a good idea to wash off after handling ammo or lead residue. The risk depends on how often you are exposed. If you handle it every day, best to get in the practice of washing frequently.





This is not something to become obsessed over, but hygene is a good practice anyways.|||OSHA standards require a cross wind or air flow of a certain mile per hour draft for an indoor range. Lead particulates from fired rounds, can be inhaled and cleaning solvent alone can enter the human body through the skin and a combination of lead and cleaning solvent can ,with a lot of exposure, pose some risk.





Several manufacturers have made %26quot;plastic%26quot; clad lead bullets that mostly eliminate indoor airborne lead. I suppose to a very small degree, picking up a lead round could transfer some lead matter into a humans system but it is usually not that easy. The ablation process from firing a round does make lead more airborne.





If you shoot a typical 50 rounds of handgun ammo, once a month outdoors and then clean you gun, you should be safe. Odds are you get much more lead in your system from contact with other items such as old paint , the water you drink etc.





Yep, living on earth is hazardous to your health and no one gets off the planet alive.|||Yes, you will be exposing yourself to lead possibly by ingesting it.|||I always wash my hands off after I handle or clean guns and after handling ammunition. It%26#039;s just like the habit of washing your hands after using the bathroom.|||To be absolutey safe, it would be best to wash your hands after handling any lead containing material. /That would include ammunition and any gun that had been fired. Admittedly, the hazard is not all that great but lead is a cumulative toxin and while you may not acquire enough from one exposure to cause you to become sick, can acquire enough over time to become toxic. Why take the chance when it is so easy to simply wash your hands after handling a fired gun or some ammo. Better safe than sorry.|||Handling the firearm itself isn%26#039;t going to harm you, you might pick up some gun oil from it, so it doesn%26#039;t hurt to wash up afterwords. As for andling lead bulletts? Yes, you should alwasy wash up afterwords. The limited exposure you would get from it isn%26#039;t that big a deal, but lead toxicity is cummulative, so if you handle it a lot, it can build to toxic levels. Better to use a little soap and hot water than to chance a problem.|||%26quot;Is it bad for you to hanlde guns and ammunition and not wash your hands right after?%26quot;





Yes.





Your hands become coated with powder and bullet residues after firing. There are toxic chemicals in the residue. It would be bad to rub such chemicals into the eyes, nose, mouth and etc.


Same is true of the lubricants and cleaning solutions used on firearms. It would be best to wash oneself after exposure to such chemicals.|||Don%26#039;t use hot water when washing your hands, that%26#039;s a mistake. Use cold water. Hot water can open up pores and the lead can be absorbed that way.





Always wash your hands afterwards. Don%26#039;t %26quot;macho%26quot; it out, like some people do with hearing protection, as well. The people who don%26#039;t pay attention aren%26#039;t exposed to it enough to learn a harsh lesson. I work at an indoor range, and we are always screened for lead poisoning (lead count in blood), as well as having information about lead poisoning pounded into our heads. Being sterile is not good, unless you%26#039;re a warrior monk .|||I have d-lead soap that I use after shooting or cleaning my guns, but just handleing them i use regular soap and hot water, and dont touch your nose or mouth until you wash|||To handle guns and ammo no it completely safe. The warning on the label is just to comply with federal regulations because lead is poisonous. But the answer to your question is no unless your a someone who goes to indoor shooting ranges a lot.





There has been a lot of proof in the past 20 years that Outdoor shooting ranges have provided a good degree of lead poisoning in the environment and Indoor shooting ranges have been proven to be dangerous to humans who go there as a hobby.





Check out this website to consider for yourself, but If your just handling them and hunting, your safe...





I would always wash my hands and usually take a shower after I go shooting or hunting so as long as your doing that, I see no harm.





Ace of the Deck,|||Naturally you want to wash your hands to get the GSR off in case you are stupid enough to kill someone!


Actually I wash my hands after handling ammo, I load my own .357%26#039;s and they are cast lead and cleaning my weapons. I don%26#039;t like to eat with dirty hands

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