Looking through the asylum window

In a discussion at Pharyngula about the damage lead pellets and bullets do to the ecology - like the condors, whose food supply is lead-tainted - and the venison hunters bring home, an Australian posted this:

I wouldn't've thought they'd be allowed to buy lead shot at all. Don't you let small children handle all your guns over there?

Sometimes outsiders have a clearer look at how wacky we really are. That is exactly the kind of thing we'd do: ban bullets in case little children eat them.