MisterBill2
- Joined Jan 23, 2018
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Generally the lead coming out of the barrel of the gun is far more hazardous. The evidence to this fact is very well documented.Somewhat non-intuitively, the biggest exposure most shooters experience, in a form that can be harmful, is the plume of lead compounds coming out of the gun from the lead styphnate or lead azide in the cartridge primer, not from the lead contained in the bullet.
The people who've had serious exposures have all been instructors, competition shooters, range maintainers, etc; those with frequent and/or lengthy contact.