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FarCenter

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7. Handloaders have to have a source of gunpowder

Reply to Taverner (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 14, 2012, 07:58 PM

Dec 2012

While blackpowder is fairly easy to make, cooking up smokeless powder in your garage is more of a challenge.

You could probably buy shot shells and extract powder to reload handgun cartridges, but it might be somewhat challenging to get it to cycle reliably in an automatic.

Centerfire brass is only good for so many uses.

Centerfire primers are also another material to control.

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Does the second ammendment protect the sale of ammunition [View all] FarCenter Dec 2012 OP

Apparently you don't know that most of what you call rifle ammunition is also used in handguns. nt jody Dec 2012 #1

Number 5 up are centerfire rifle ammunition FarCenter Dec 2012 #6

All of those are used in handguns NickB79 Dec 2012 #8

These are really fairly rare FarCenter Dec 2012 #13

The law would have to be tightened NickB79 Dec 2012 #16

I don't know what the rounds are in the first picture. You can check out available pistol rounds at jody Dec 2012 #9

I wouldn't be too concerned about single shot, break action pistols as mass murder weapons. FarCenter Dec 2012 #15

You said "Centerfire pistol ammunition should be limited" and I pointed out most rifle calibers are jody Dec 2012 #18

I think that you could draw a distinction between the two by diameter, energy and momentum FarCenter Dec 2012 #22

IT's pretty easy to make your own rounds Taverner Dec 2012 #2

Its pretty easy to make meth too DJ13 Dec 2012 #3

Hmmm...interesting...keep going... Taverner Dec 2012 #4

Handloaders have to have a source of gunpowder FarCenter Dec 2012 #7

The most difficult component is sarisataka Dec 2012 #12

Criminal will always buy guns from law enforcement and the military FarCenter Dec 2012 #17

Yes, the black market would be rife sarisataka Dec 2012 #23

The Second Amendment is a broken theory from another age. onehandle Dec 2012 #5

muskets and homemade ammo bluemarkers Dec 2012 #10

It would probably be ruled a "use tax" by the Supreme Court NickB79 Dec 2012 #11

Nuisance tax then maybe byeya Dec 2012 #14

Not USSC, but in Herrington v. United States (2010) the court said: petronius Dec 2012 #19

It wouldn't be a ban on possession. It would be a ban on manufacture and sale. FarCenter Dec 2012 #21

Same reasoning though - Herrington implies that ammunition is protected to the same petronius Dec 2012 #24

all i have is birdshot and .22 long rifle arely staircase Dec 2012 #20