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Class 6 FFL for making obsolete ammunition?

Cbowles77 Cbowles77 Member Posts: 1

Greetings and apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere. I searched the forums and spent a disgusting amount of time on Google looking for an answer to my question, with no results.

My question concerns making ammunition for "obsolete" antique pre/98 firearms. Stuff like skin cartridges for an 1860 Army revolver, paper cartridges for a Dreyse needle gun, or pin-fire cartridges. Things that cannot possibly be used in modern firearms, and are primarily of interest to collectors and historical reenactors.

A reading of the laws on ammunition manufacturing would indicate there is no exception whatsoever for historical/obscure/obsolete stuff like this, and indeed, making and selling a skin cartridge for an 1860 Army revolver would require the same licenses and presumably recordkeeping, zoning requirements, and insurance etc as someone making millions of rounds a year of modern centerfire cartridges.

Am I correct in assuming there's no rationality in these requirements, and a boutique "manufacturer" who might produce several thousand units a year of such "ammunition" as a side business is treated the same in regulation as the firm cranking out millions of modern cartridges yearly?

Comments

  • mac10mac10 Member Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭

    need lic for makeing and selling ammo dont forget the insurance for liability,,and since your manufactureing exise taxes also your location atf will investigate as well as city /state ordances,, dont forget the political climate

  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 13

    The late Bob Haley was the source for all ammo obsolete. He could supply literally any ammo you could imagine . It took him a lifetime to find ,make,reverse engineer and buy all the books ,molds ,tools etc . No idea of what happened to it when he died.There is a market for it all ,no matter how weird . If you have the skills, tools and knowledge ,you should do well .

    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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