Gun Control: Officials Set Sights On Ammunition Background Checks

Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg Times) ^ | February 1, 2013 | Peter Jamison,

[Iron Munro]

Their perfidy and underhandedness has no bottom.

[Paladin2]

A never ending supply of Libtards wanting to become the Ammo Salesman of the Year.

[G Larry]

Ya...I’ve been doing background checks on ammo.....

...and there isn’t any.....

[3Fingas]

Guns were the head fake, go for the ammo now. Ammo availability is so bad now, any serious talk about doing this will only worse the supply situation. You can’t even reload very easily right now. Components are scarce too.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Criminals have need of very little ammunition.

Target practice is where 99% of ammunition goes.

[T-Bird45]

If, as the sheriff says, a law “has no teeth” who are we to blame for that and how is another law going to solve that? Why is this not used as one of the many add-on charges that prosecutors so love? You know, the ones that G. Gordon Liddy used to refer to like “felonious mopery”, etc.

[null and void]

[bunkerhill7]

Obummer just bought n millions of rounds- background check the bastard

[theBuckwheat]

If the gun-grabbers succeed at limiting magazine capacity, it will only be a matter of time before they will proposed limits on the amount of ammunition or reloading components that a person can possess at any one time. Get ready for a regulation defining reloading as “manufacturing”, an activity that will require a federal license. Like the FFL, the day will come when buying components will be regulated.

So, at what point is the Second so infringed that a having a Constitutional Convention could be discussed?

[drypowder]

on another note, can anyone verify that the US military is now destroying their once fired .223 brass instead of selling it to public business for redistribution and reloading purposes?

[ConservativeInPA]

So will this go as far as reloading components are concerned? I have enough brass to last me a lifetime. I can mold my own bullets for handguns. I have been thinking about swaging jacketed bullets, but the investment is significant. I hope I am not driven to learning how to make primers and gun powder from scratch.

[Atlas Sneezed]

on another note, can anyone verify that the US military is now destroying their once fired .223 brass instead of selling it to public business for redistribution and reloading purposes?

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That is widely understood, and I believe undisputed.

But I recall that they don’t destroy the metal. They sell the scrap to the Chinese.

[Iron Munro]

on another note, can anyone verify that the US military is now destroying their once fired .223 brass instead of selling it to public business for redistribution and reloading purposes?

Back around 2009 the government set that policy but, supposedly, the directive was rescinded shortly after.

Surplus U.S. Military Brass Remains Available — Mutilation Orders Reversed

[ConservativeInPA]

on another note, can anyone verify that the US military is now destroying their once fired .223 brass instead of selling it to public business for redistribution and reloading purposes?

I bought a bunch of Lake City 5.56 last summer, so it would be a new policy. Since I am not in need for brass, I only casually see what is available on websites. Lately, that has been just about nothing. I buy from smaller outfits that actually sell in bulk vs. Midway, CheaperThanCrap and their likes.

[Las Vegas Ron]

While it is illegal for certain classes of potentially dangerous people — such as felons and the mentally ill — to possess bullets,

Funny, nothing I've read in the 2nd Amendment reads like that...in fact, it's just the opposite.

[Red Steel]

Inquire with DRMO. I once delivered tens of thousands of ammo brass among other things to them.

Website fact sheet. Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS)

[MCF]

One pound of Unique powder, 1000 small pistol primers, 25 pounds of wheel weights, will reload 1000 rounds of 9x19mm (9mm Luger) or 38 Special ammo.

[nobamanomore]

glad that I have reloaded for years. That said, the intrusion into our daily lives is rapidly approaching the ‘get a rope’ stage.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

One pound of Unique powder, 1000 small pistol primers, 25 pounds of wheel weights, will reload 1000 rounds of 9x19mm (9mm Luger) or 38 Special ammo.

I have heard that smokeless powder tends to "decompose" slowly during long term storage. Is there any truth to that? If that is even partially true, does it also happen to assembled ammunition stored under "cool and dry" conditions?

I don't remember the exact citation but it came from a "reloading notes" section in a gun magazine. The issue came up when someone writing to the column author noticed a "fine reddish brown powder" as he was filling his powder measure from the bulk storage can. I don't recall if it was double base powder, ball, extruded, shotgun, rifle, or whatever. He did check several other cans and found the same residue.

I've also heard tails of people shooting WWI issue military ammo and most of it still functions after 100 years in storage. Is there any data available on shelf life of commercial Vs hand reloaded ammo?

Regards,
GtG

PS Do you use "wheel weight" metal as is or do you alloy it with lead or bar solder?

[MrB]

If they do this, we’ll pick a “buy ammo day” and all of us will go out and buy a half dozen boxes of 22LR, on box at a time, and make them process the check for each one.