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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 08:28:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

   @whitequark oh good they got rid of the lead

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 08:34:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

     @whitequark great! I'd hate my bullets to kill anyone

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 08:34:02 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     @foone and the primer is DDNP, too!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 09:25:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

     @whitequark yeah, I'm aware. I grew up in the south of the US and annoyingly there's a lot of non-range places where there's just lots of lead in the soil because of people using the forests as a free range

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 09:25:48 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     @foone (if you're not familiar: lead contamination of ranges, especially indoor ranges, is a serious problem)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 06:21:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧
     • bhtooefr

     @bhtooefr @whitequark clearly they should own some kind of small flamethrower, and periodically go around the range trying to ignite it

   • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 06:21:34 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     • bhtooefr

     @bhtooefr @foone if you always use steel cores wouldn't you end up regularly burning off anything that can burn

   • bhtooefr (bhtooefr@snack.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 06:21:34 JST bhtooefr

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     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧
     @whitequark @foone only a tiny chance of ignition each time though, so you can still get a significant buildup between each incident of a spark finding something to ignite
   • bhtooefr (bhtooefr@snack.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 06:21:44 JST bhtooefr

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     • ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

     @whitequark @foone although steel cores are, uh, also frowned on in indoor ranges due to more… acute safety risks than airborne lead poisoning

     (namely, sparking. there’s unburned powder everywhere in your average indoor range that’s been in operation for a while, and sparks from steel core ammo can ignite that, which would be Bad™. (see USCSB videos on combustible dust, with the addition that this dust is designed to combust.) additionally, steel cores can damage the backstop, which has the potential to be Bad™. AFAIK, zinc is the usual choice for lead-free ammo marketed for indoor range usage. (copper is also good, but is expensive.))