I liked the reference to getting lead out of paint and toys. Wasn't that because kids, being kids, put stuff in their mouths and they were ingesting lead that way? I have never, ever seen a kid on the range picking up bullets and putting them in their mouths. Five years of shooting at the same gravel pit, if local animals were ingesting lead and then croaking I think I would have noticed the pile of dead animals around the pit.
I also noticed what paper carried the article. I love California and I really like some Californians and I even agree with some of what they have done about protecting the environment (for the record I liked being stationed in NJ too, but have you ever been to Bayonne and looked at the water?) here, but I'm still counting the days till I am sprung from this place.