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Gunpowder deterioration

338magnut338magnut Member Posts: 768 ✭✭✭
edited February 2009 in Ask the Experts
Has anybody heard the new rumor about gunpowder only having a shelf life of 6 months due to additives put in the powder on new government regulations? I hear things like this and think BS but never know with this new regime in the White House. Thanks for any info Terrill.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just crap. I think it was illinois or iowa that was trying to have a state law that required that along with individualized serial numbering of each cartridge and a 5 cent tax per cartridge passed. Of coarse it didn't pass. Mainly because ammo manufacturers said they didn't have the technology to do it and weren't going to invest money to do so. And if they passed that law then the manufacturer wouldn't be able to sell ammo in that state, guess who's police departments weren't gonna have any ammo... yea.... But it sparked alot of rumors and I think a couple other nanny states were trying to get similar legislation passed. Ever since that Heller ruling the antigunner's started trying to go after the ammo. They realized they can't take our guns away without violating the constitution, even if its an individual municipality or other jurisdiction. So they have to start going up other avenues. Its scary because they are getting more creative.
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  • beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Has anybody heard the new rumor about gunpowder only having a shelf life of 6 months due to additives put in the powder on new government regulations? I hear things like this and think BS but never know with this new regime in the White House. Thanks for any info Terrill.
    Its bulls#$t.
    This is black-helicopter stuff. Ignore it.

    quote:Originally posted by leeblackman
    Ever since that Heller ruling the antigunner's started trying to go after the ammo. They realized they can't take our guns away without violating the constitution, even if its an individual municipality or other jurisdiction. So they have to start going up other avenues. Its scary because they are getting more creative.

    I got news for them.

    You can't "bear arms" without ammunition, and the Supreme Court recognized in the 19th Century (it was John Marshall, actually) that "the ability to tax is the ability to destroy".

    So I just can't imagine any sort of punitive ammunition tax passing even a rudimentary Supreme Court challenge.

    Not incidentally, the Heller decision wasn't so much about the right to "keep" arms, it was about the right to "bear" them.

    The point was that Washington DC would only let you keep a gun at home if it were unloaded and locked in a vault or disassembled into pieces. The SCOTUS, quite common-sensically, opined that this restriction was unconstitutional, since you can't "bear" a gun that was taken apart, and the limitation was simply unreasonable.
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  • jtmarine0831jtmarine0831 Member Posts: 908 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If they put an additive in the powder that will deteriorate it in six months, then it will deteriorate it in six minutes! They started this rumor years ago with primers. Another point would be that if the powder deteriorates over time after it has been sold/loaded then I see someone ammunition failures and liability suits.
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  • 338magnut338magnut Member Posts: 768 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well just as I thought total B******T but I just wanted to see some other views of people that think like myself. As always thanks for the input-Terrill.
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