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Just another police grift—the state-supported & loosely regulated mafia that keeps us safe 🤣
The range operated that way for about a year until more than a dozen officers started feeling sick and reported testing positive for lead in their blood.

What?!? At an outdoor range?  How many thousands of rounds were these cops shooting per week?  I am skeptical. >

The range has been in use for the better part of a century. I have no issue believing that there are significant amounts of lead contaminating the soil. >

Yeah, I have no problem at all believing that.  Any range is going to be contaminated with lead.  
With a backstop at a minimum of 20 yards away, though, how much lead dust do you think the shooter is going to inhale?  Indoor ranges tend to be a problem with lead due to small size/close backstop and due to recirculated air, but the risk is mainly confined to employees who work there every day, not people who shoot a couple hundred rounds at most a year.  
I've never heard of someone getting lead poisoning at an outdoor range. >

I guess that's a different type of lead poisoning... >

Yeah… There really needs to be a considered upper limit of delivery speed to count as poisoning. >

Wait this was an outdoor range? I read not getting air filtration for the bullet traps being an issue thinking it was a stupid oversight being an indoor range. Are they literally standing in front of these traps? >

I have no idea what they are shooting, but using unjacketed bullets and cleaning without gloves is a more likely cause of lead exposure than breathing it in outdoors. >

Yeah, but you'd have to ingest the lead, have open cut or inhale it. Lead on your fingers isn't as bad unless you lick them, or handle food. And most ammo that police use is jacketed..I haven't seen unclad lead bullets except for shot, and that is usually steel (bird shot).
Unless, they are shooting at christmas light strings...because THAT has more lead exposure than what I just read...  /s >

"The City followed manufacturer instructions during the process of purchasing and then installing the bullet trap system last year. The lead-dust collector was optional and it was not known at the time in 2019 that not installing the dust collector would create lead-exposure risk."
.... and then it took another employee some amount of time to come back with:
"As one of our violations was related to lead dust, incorporating these devices into the next phases would seem to be a priority. It is my understanding that including one of these devices was decided against during the last design phase. Having received violations in February of 2020, I am having a hard time understanding the logic in that decision."
Lmao, wowww... so you didn't follow instructions. What other nuisance dust besides lead were you hoping to capture with it? Did you pay all that money to capture regular dust...outside? Lol. Lead was in fact the point of the entire purchase...incredible to me that we pay people who are this incompetent. Bureaucracy is the worst... >


The lead-dust collector was optional and it was not known at the time in 2019 that not installing the dust collector would create lead-exposure risk.

I don't understand anyone accepting this excuse.  The risk was there by default, and the optional collector mitigated it.  The absence of the collector did not create the risk. >

But I'd rather just... you know... pocket that money :\^)