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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!gatech.edu
- From: emory!ke4zv!gary@gatech.edu (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Lead in brass confirmed, news at 11
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.152207.23996@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:18:00 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
- Lines: 21
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Dec18.001637.13022@michael.apple.com> ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
- #In article <_6=rmy=@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- ##ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
- #
- ###I feel vindicated now about my earlier discovery that the lead test
- ###kit found lead in new clean brass ...
- #
- ##No, you're not off the hook yet.
- #
- #I didn't know I was on a hook ... Though there were some noises
- #about the kit being suspect since it detected lead where one should
- #only find brass... and this does show that brass isn't as lilly pure
- #as was speculated.
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- Oh John has a meathook with your name on it. Don't feel picked on
- though, he has a meathook with *all* our names on it. :-)
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- As to cartridge brass, it's not supposed to have *any* lead in it.
- Any that's there is an impurity, not a part of the alloy.
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- Gary
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