Seriously, people should stop panicking about lead that much. You know there is this fairly common hobby people have, it's called casting bullets. With lead. I've done it, I know many people that do it regularly and they're all fine.

Furthermore, shooting ranges are full of lead in the ground. The laws around here(Poland) require a cleanup by specialised companies every few years and a concrete slab to separate the lead/soil mix from the groundwater near the targets, but still there are tons of the stuff just sitting there for years and no one gets hurt. Fun fact. These specialised cleanup companies don't cost anything for big ranges. They're either free, or they pay the shooting club that owns the range money, because the lead they recover is worth a lot.

Yes lead in the ground isn't all that scary. Lead in your body is a concern.

So don't blow lead smoke over your neighbors house.

This post is what happens when chemistry sets don't contain anything more hazardous or interesting than marshmallows.

I think it's more that a generation of people grew up with lead paint and that decreased the average IQ so much that you have people suggesting that lead smoke is harmless.

Since when lead emits smoke? You'd have to heat it beyond it's boiling point that is 1750C,while the typical lead casting is done at around 450C.even if you managed to vaporise minute amounts of lead it's going to condense and fall out long before it reaches "your neighbour's house".

I wonder, does everyone that scared of lead own smartphones? (with cadmium in their batteries). Cadmium is very toxic and it boils at under 800C so your average wood flame will vaporise it. But everyone talks about lead.

Why? IMO because lead used to be added to petrol/gas as an anti knock agent. So there was quite a bit of contamination present back in the day. This has been outlawed decades ago, but the collective memory remains.

Dust.

Actually, firing ranges almost certainly are bad for your health and you should wear a particulate filter when going into one. https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-... for instance. I'd wager there is no small link between heavy firearm hobbyist and a proclivity for paranoia, conspiratorial thinking and other Q-Anon adjacent traits.

"No one gets hurt" - perhaps no one dies, but there are no safe levels of lead exposure.