With proper ventilation - nope.
The other thing is… if you shoot FMJ, there is no lead problem anymore. Cleaning products are mostly environment friendly. I feel safe. 
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same here
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If it is, they’re cleaning too much or not being neat about it. 
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I don’t have a really good picture of my entire AO but here is a pic of my work table out in the garage. I tried the dining room table but was promptly “outlawed” by my lovely wife from ever putting anything on it ever again. Prolly better that way as I have A/C, heat, and a big screen with internet right in front of me out there anyway. Now I get fussed at for spending too much time in the garage…go figure.
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That’s all you need for a cleaning table/bench. Location may be better. Looks like carpet for flooring. Got to be really careful about spills. If the ventilation is okay and your wife is good with it, you are off to a good start. Recommendation: find a bin or box to help you organize the clutter. As time and money get less scarce, work on small incremental improvements. Safety is the biggest factor, then useability, everything else is window dressing.
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I agree that we are less exposed than in the days when we would spend winter nights boiling down tire weights on the kitchen stove to cast our own bullets, then spend summer evenings on the sofa scraping the residue of those bullets from our rifling grooves between range sessions, using all kinds of exotic cleaning solvents. That is not the same thing as “safe”.
Most FMJ bullets have exposed lead bases vaporizing lead throughout your firearm with each shot. Almost all primers expose us and the gun internals to hazardous lead compounds when fired and when cleaning the contaminated firearm. Many if not most .22LR bullets are still just plain exposed lead or plated a couple molecules thick. Pretty much every bullet of every design is more or less disintegrated upon hitting a steel target or broken up on hard objects in your backstop — with every puff of dust launching fine lead particles into the air for capture by hands, hair, and clothing. Lead exposure has definitely been reduced over the years, but it is just as definitely not “gone” for most shooters.
I shoot thousands of rounds each year when I used to shoot dozens or maybe hundreds.
I don’t possess any ammunition without a lead warning, not even loose TMJ bullets with no visible lead prior to use. I have almost no cleaning solvents without DANGER – HARMFUL OR FATAL IF SWALLOWED warnings. I have very few aerosol products without DANGER – FLAMMABLE warnings. Unspent powder of course if that may find a way into your crud accumulation. Brushes, bore snakes, other tools, and porous/absorbent items all become contaminated with whatever is coming out of your gun during cleaning or maintenance.
Just how much to be concerned and what to do about those exposures is essentially a family/household decision — not something the internet or the government can conclude for you (outside of workplace settings). But I don’t believe that “nope” is a correct enough answer.
In my humble, but sort of lecture-y, opinion. 
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Chaos?
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I didn’t know that!
Id love to do a smaller version of this in the corner of my garage. I really want a larger work bench for any little project.
That’s how mine started. Neat.
It took less than a week to make it look chaotic 
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Of course, what you posted make sense. Lead is presented in almost all projectiles.
My point was, that using safety precautions we should be free from harm.
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I only real requirement is that I won’t clean a gun anywhere that food is placed.
And yes, lead is a thing with FMJ.
Don’t confuse FMJ with TMJ, and the contents of the primers are often toxic as well
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wow… I didn’t even know that TMJ existed. I’ve always thought FMJ has lead completely covered by copper. 
Another lesson learned ! Thx 
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I learned, I think, when I started reloading. Can’t miss it when you are viewing the bullets loose in a bag of 1k lol
Then there are the primers.
This is why products like Speer’s cleanfire exist
"
- Patented Clean-Fire primer contains no lead, barium or antimony
- Speer TMJ bullet
- Results in cleaner range air and firearms"
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I’ve only known it as Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
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