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Lee-Lee

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25. Ask anyone who works in industrial hygiene or occupational safety

Reply to Tanuki (Reply #19)

Sun Jan 15, 2017, 06:39 PM

Jan 2017

And they will tell you that the preferred and most desirable way to deal with noise that can damage hearing is to eliminate it at the source. Hearing protection worn on the person is a distant second in desirability and only considered an allowable solution when elimination of the noise at the source is either impossible or so expensive or complicated as to be unreasonable.

Right now the only reason that it is not down widely with firearms is a 75 year old law that makes no sense anyway.

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