A lead sinker from his tackle box. I guess he didn't know it was poisonous, and it got me to thinking that in an earlier century guns fired poisonous bullets. How awful is that!
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Lead isn't poisonous unless you eat it or inhale it. Lead bullets don't kill by poisoning, they kill by destroying vital organs, blood vessels, arteries, and tissue. They destroy it by cutting and tearing them, and with impact trauma. NOT poisoning. If you don't eat it, it is perfectly safe to handle. There are literally thousands of people who live with lead bullets or bullet fragments in them because doctors determined that it would cause more damage to try to remove them.
