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Is unprimed the same as once fired?
kukoo
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hello all.
i am trying to find out the answer to a question that the British home office has asked me. I am wanting to buy around 20.000 to 30.000 once fired 9mm brass casings to use in artwork.
I have asked my home office if i need a license to import these from the USA they said if they are unprimed then i do not need a license or any permits to import from USA.
So if someone out there could put me straight with the question
ARE UNPRIMED BRASS CASINGS THE SAME AS ONCE FIRED?
that would be really helpful.
many thanks.
peter
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i am trying to find out the answer to a question that the British home office has asked me. I am wanting to buy around 20.000 to 30.000 once fired 9mm brass casings to use in artwork.
I have asked my home office if i need a license to import these from the USA they said if they are unprimed then i do not need a license or any permits to import from USA.
So if someone out there could put me straight with the question
ARE UNPRIMED BRASS CASINGS THE SAME AS ONCE FIRED?
that would be really helpful.
many thanks.
peter
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hope that helps
hello all.
i am trying to find out the answer to a question that the British home office has asked me. I am wanting to buy around 20.000 to 30.000 once fired 9mm brass casings to use in artwork.
I have asked my home office if i need a license to import these from the USA they said if they are unprimed then i do not need a license or any permits to import from USA.
So if someone out there could put me straight with the question
ARE UNPRIMED BRASS CASINGS THE SAME AS ONCE FIRED?
that would be really helpful.
many thanks.
peter
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Not exactly.
"Once fired" means exactly that. . .the cartridges were fired one time only. These will almost certainly contain spent primers.
Apart from "brand new/never loaded", "once fired" is the sort of brass that ammunition reloaders cherish most.
"Unprimed" implies that the cartridges don't contain primers at all.
So that could mean either brand new brass cartridges that were never primed, or alternatively, used cartridges that have had the spent primers knocked out (or "decapped" to use the reloaders parlance).
In some cases, sellers might use the term "unprimed" just to mean used cartridges with spent primers in place (ie the same as "once loaded" or "twice loaded" or "who knows how many times loaded"), though that isn't technically 100% correct.
In any case, I think Laredo lefty has it. Live primers are not only potentially dangerous in shipping (they pose a small explosive hazard) but in some jurisdictions they are highly restricted or prohibited.
Your gov't (eg "home office") probably just wants to make sure you aren't importing live primers into the country, either because they're hazardous, or because they don't trust you with them (or likely both).
I can't imagine why they would care if you were importing spent primers. . .those aren't reusable (or at least not in any cost-effective way), they aren't particularly hazardous, and they're effectively junk.
Assuming this is the case, neither "unprimed brass" nor "once fired brass" should contain live primers.
brass must have different duties asset. Bob