{"id":119390,"date":"2026-10-24T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119390"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:11:02","slug":"119390","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119390","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trace goes \u2018toxic\u2019 over lead rounds<\/a><\/p>\n

It must be a difficult time to be an anti-gun activist working at the Trace\u2014the propaganda arm of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg\u2019s anti-gun empire. After all, things are certainly not going their way.<\/p>\n

The National Firearms Act has been gutted. You can buy suppressors with ease, and America\u2019s favorite rifle will likely become legal in all 50 states thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court. The changes are even more impressive at the lower levels. We\u2019re seeing pro-gun triumphs almost every single week.<\/p>\n

Finding any anti-gun story has got to be a daily concern for the kids at the Trace. They can\u2019t report the facts because they\u2019re not real reporters. So, instead of reporting that President Donald J. Trump\u2014the most pro-gun President since Teddy Rooselvelt\u2014is restoring our Second Amendment rights on a regular basis, what can the Trace possibly tell its readers?<\/p>\n

Lead\u2014specifically, lead is bad. In fact, it\u2019s dangerous.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the best the Trace kids could come up with.<\/p>\n

According to a story<\/a> in the Oct. 21st<\/sup> edition of The Bulletin, which the Trace publishes, \u201cSix million children in the U.S. live in homes with people who use firearms with lead-based ammunition but don\u2019t engage in post-shooting hygiene. That leaves the kids vulnerable to lead exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, if you go shooting and don\u2019t wash up, your kids are at risk, the Trace claims. Evidently, they know who\u2019s washing up and who\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

This super-worrisome story was written by Fairriona Magee, who describes herself as the public health reporter for the Trace. She joined the Trace right after college. It\u2019s her first paid gig. She also volunteers at a local food bank.<\/p>\n

How does Magee prove her point that lead imperils every single shooter? She finds an expert, of course, who cites the \u201crisk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese findings just provide a suggestion that this is a bigger risk than I think people realize,\u201d Christian Hoover, the study\u2019s lead author and public health researcher at Harvard University, told me. \u201cHopefully, they\u2019re willing to consider some of the suggestions that we make in the study, like changing your clothes after shooting, not bringing things into the home with you, and treating this activity when you\u2019re using lead-based ammunition as though it were toxic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for her readers, Hoover, whom Magee described as a \u201cpublic health researcher at Harvard University,\u201d uses another title on his LinkedIn: Co-Investigator, Firearm Exposure Research Team at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure Harvard\u2019s Firearm Exposure Research Team fully respects our Second Amendment rights, right?<\/p>\n

Magee\u2019s bulletin is short, thankfully. For anyone with even a modicum of firearm knowledge, it\u2019s so bad it\u2019s almost funny.<\/p>\n

Magee never mentions that shooting outdoors lowers your risk of lead exposure dramatically, or that Americans have been shooting lead bullets downrange since before there was a United States of America.<\/p>\n

Instead, she touted her company line \u2014 guns are super dangerous. If you own one, you\u2019re at risk.<\/em><\/p>\n

Magee wrote that she found the lead story while reading \u201cgun violence\u201d studies, which she does on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

That type of shoddy research is also expected from the kids at the Trace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trace goes \u2018toxic\u2019 over lead rounds It must be a difficult time to be an anti-gun activist working at the Trace\u2014the propaganda arm of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg\u2019s anti-gun empire. After all, things are certainly not going their way. The National Firearms Act has been gutted. You can buy suppressors with … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119391,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119390\/revisions\/119391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}