> You can get some nasty burns and lead is still a neurotoxin, but unlikely to do anything more. Yeah but I was talking about children here, the ones most like

> You can get some nasty burns and lead is still a neurotoxin, but unlikely to do anything more. Yeah but I was talking about children here, the ones most likely to end up playing around with stray ammo, ordnance and IEDs. Children can be pretty ... let's call it "innovative" or "experimental" in playing (up to and including improvising guns out of pipes), and it's best to teach them that all kinds of stuff associated with weapons should be left very well alone and that they should call in their parents or the police directly if they discover such items. I do not expect a child to be able to make a qualified decision if that's "just" a relatively harmless 9mm round or some sniper munition with a serious explosive charge. Maybe at age 16 or whatnot, the kids get a real gun safety talk and what they can, should and absolutely should not do, but until that all ammo should be considered unsafe to touch, much less play. For reference, I'm half-Croat half German, I got the "don't play with shit" talk, I reasonably know how to deal with guns and I know of more than just one road in the backwaters of Croatia where almost three decades after the war, there are "warning, mines" signs plastered alongside the fields. In 2022, a Redditor created a very illustrative map, a lot of areas are still marked as "suspected mines" [2]. The fighting back in the 90s was very extensive, the only places it didn't hit are the northwest and Istria. And even what has been nominally cleaned up isn't safe for children either, there are a lot of farms, sheds and underground ammo caches from the army where children can pick up instruments of war. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/vt39zf/minefields_in_croatia_by_county_2022_oc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/vt39zf/minefields_...