How do you know that there have been, "for GENERATIONS," "absolutely NO ADVERSE EFFECTS AT ALL"??? When I was a child small models of soldiers and cannons, all made of lead, were sold by the tens of thousands to children. They were so small as to be easily swallowed. They poisoned and killed countless toddlers. Medical science only became aware of lead toxicity within the last century, and it took some years for appropriate legislation to follow. Thousands of workers in lead mines and nearby communities suffered early and neuro-degenerative deaths around the world. At our indoor range in Fairbanks (and hopefully elsewhere, there are signed posted which instruct one how to wash your hands after shooting to minimize lead absorption. To suppose that no death or toxic reaction from lead shot poisoning have EVER occurred is bogus reasoning.