One American Rifleman reader wrote in, asking how to clean lead build-up out of his Colt revolver and also prevent lead from ...

Researchers from Jülich Research Centre in Erlangen, Germany, have proven that centuries-old toxic waste in the form of old lead bullets can still be useful today. The team sourced these 16th- and ...

Materials scientists say they’ve taken nearly 300-year-old toxic waste—a stockpile of spherical lead bullets from the 16th and 17th centuries, tainted with carbon residue, metal impurities, and the ...

When a hunter shoots a deer, elk, or other animal with lead ammunition, the damage extends far beyond the target. Upon impact, the bullet splinters into tiny fragments that scatter throughout the body ...