03-12-2011, 08:41 PM
longdayjake,
At the risk of heading off on a tangent -- you are probably closer to the mark than not. Lead in paint, eaten by young children in has indeed been shown to cause health issues. This led to a fair bit of negative publicity and the anti-gun community saw an opportunity to make things more difficult for the shooting public...
So, yes, they are afraid of high-speed lead poisoning...
Back to the center of the thread: Regardless of the accuracy of condemnation, the reality we face is that US military small arms bullet design is rapidly moving away from lead. My view is that we need to accommodate that reality.
By keeping the discussion separate from how a bullet generates lethality (i. e., expansion, break-up, or tumbling) we can better concentrate on how to get the bullet to the target with enough mass, energy and momentum to have the potential to cause the requisite damage or injury. This accommodates the notion that at least one of the major users of small arms is moving towards bullets with a specific gravity of 7.8 to 8.0 and another takes pains to keep bullets from expanding or breaking up.
At the risk of heading off on a tangent -- you are probably closer to the mark than not. Lead in paint, eaten by young children in has indeed been shown to cause health issues. This led to a fair bit of negative publicity and the anti-gun community saw an opportunity to make things more difficult for the shooting public...
So, yes, they are afraid of high-speed lead poisoning...
Back to the center of the thread: Regardless of the accuracy of condemnation, the reality we face is that US military small arms bullet design is rapidly moving away from lead. My view is that we need to accommodate that reality.
By keeping the discussion separate from how a bullet generates lethality (i. e., expansion, break-up, or tumbling) we can better concentrate on how to get the bullet to the target with enough mass, energy and momentum to have the potential to cause the requisite damage or injury. This accommodates the notion that at least one of the major users of small arms is moving towards bullets with a specific gravity of 7.8 to 8.0 and another takes pains to keep bullets from expanding or breaking up.