A new study led by epidemiologists at Brown University found that among firearm owners, less safe storage was associated with higher blood lead levels in children.
You’ve pretty much got it, seemingly from first principles, good job!
Yeah, thats… basically exactly what happens.
Now, fully cleaning the gun after every usage… well, on the one hand, theoretically that would help with the gun being … less of a profilic random micro/particulate lead dispenser.
On the other hand, well, all that lead is now literally being handled by you, so, you need gloves, maybe a mask, maybe functionally a clean room as well.
At that point, you might as well be a small armory, if you want to have all the stuff and practices in place to properly contain the particulate lead.
Another big element at play is that different barrels basically corrode or gunk up differently.
For example, chrome-lined barrels are generally slightly more expensive, have essentially greater durability or longetivity, but because of imperfections of the actual lining process, lead to slightly less accurate barrels.
Chrome lined barrels would presumably have less lead exposure factor, due to lead having a harder time to stick to the barrel.
Vs non chrome lined barrels that gunk up more quickly, but, when clean, can be slightly more accurate.
There are other ways of coating or treating or just making a barrel, as well as many other kinds of seemingly esoteric details of gun design, that could potentially affect how much of an… ‘ambient particulate lead exposure’ risk it is.
You’ve pretty much got it, seemingly from first principles, good job!
Yeah, thats… basically exactly what happens.
Now, fully cleaning the gun after every usage… well, on the one hand, theoretically that would help with the gun being … less of a profilic random micro/particulate lead dispenser.
On the other hand, well, all that lead is now literally being handled by you, so, you need gloves, maybe a mask, maybe functionally a clean room as well.
At that point, you might as well be a small armory, if you want to have all the stuff and practices in place to properly contain the particulate lead.
Another big element at play is that different barrels basically corrode or gunk up differently.
For example, chrome-lined barrels are generally slightly more expensive, have essentially greater durability or longetivity, but because of imperfections of the actual lining process, lead to slightly less accurate barrels.
Chrome lined barrels would presumably have less lead exposure factor, due to lead having a harder time to stick to the barrel.
Vs non chrome lined barrels that gunk up more quickly, but, when clean, can be slightly more accurate.
There are other ways of coating or treating or just making a barrel, as well as many other kinds of seemingly esoteric details of gun design, that could potentially affect how much of an… ‘ambient particulate lead exposure’ risk it is.