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Posted: 4/18/2008 11:55:22 AM EDT
as if it shouldn't be
 Handmade ammunition legal in Canada http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/04/15/hand-load.html Last Updated: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | 9:58 AM ET Comments61Recommend24 CBC News Buying ammunition in Canada requires a firearms licence, but some people make their own ammunition, and gun and gang experts say that has led to a black market in the sale of bullets. "It would be nice if people had to have a licence to buy the components; currently they don't," said Deputy Chief Tony Cooper of the Ontario Firearms Office. If you're over 18, it's legal to buy all the components needed to make bullets — primers, gunpowder, casings and bullet tips. For about $100, a person can buy enough supplies to make 1,000 "hand-load" homemade bullets. "It's very common … for people to hand-load. I would say it's been something that's been done for a couple of hundred years," said Cooper. He says hand-load bullets are commonly used by hunters and target shooters. The fear is the hand-load bullets will get into the hands of the wrong people. Cooper said "it's the exception, certainly not the rule," but it is a concern. No one knows how many hand-load bullets make it onto the streets because there has never been an audit of casings from crime scenes. |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 11:56:18 AM EDT
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They need to put a stop to all those handloading gang-bangers
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Posted: 4/18/2008 11:57:00 AM EDT
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what the hell is a bullet tip?
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Posted: 4/18/2008 11:58:30 AM EDT
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Good grief.
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Posted: 4/18/2008 11:58:52 AM EDT
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Its that thing on the arm that goes up. |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:00:28 PM EDT
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Fucking reloaders, when will they learn.
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:01:05 PM EDT
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no your thinking of the thing on the back that goes up |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:01:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:01:48 PM EDT
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Actually, I've seen that term before, or just "tips", fairly frequently in reloading circles. |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:02:36 PM EDT
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Canadian gangsta rap: Chillin with my Dillon so I can do some killin. 
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:03:14 PM EDT
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I'd like to know where in Canada I can buy enough components to load 1,000 rounds for $100!!!
(oh wait, the author is full of shit) 
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:03:32 PM EDT
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I see a win-win situation here.
Handloaders start selling overpressure loads to gangbangers. Gangbangers' guns KB. |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:05:35 PM EDT
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Man, that's sig material there! |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:06:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:07:41 PM EDT
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what happens if some of my bullets don't have tips
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:08:22 PM EDT
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I like this comment:
It's very common … for people to hand-load. I would say it's been something that's been done for a couple of hundred years," said Cooper. Of course they have. Never have seen a machine loaded musket. Does Dillon make a press for flintlocks? Is RCBS turning out dies for percussion caps? |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:09:14 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:09:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:10:24 PM EDT
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They should be encouraging gangbangers to use handloads. Especially the super-hot ones. Proof loads, all the cool kids are shooting 'em !
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:11:12 PM EDT
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 and they'll lose their trigger fingers, so you won't have to worry about retribution!
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:11:35 PM EDT
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If the .gov would subsidize ammo purchases, there would be less incentive to hand load ammo. Then they could save lives and stuff.
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:11:37 PM EDT
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lol |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:11:38 PM EDT
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Just sell them some .40 loaded to 10mm specs. Call them Kabooms. All the boyz wit da G-Lock Fotays will love them. |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:13:00 PM EDT
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To be technical, black-powder shooters are handloading every time they load. They are working with ammunition components - ball/bullet, powder and priming - rather than complete, fixed rounds of ammunition every time they load. |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:13:34 PM EDT
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Man that would be heaven. FREE AMMO FOR THE MF WIN! |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:14:20 PM EDT
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It's "shoulder thing that goes up"! 
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:14:27 PM EDT
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I know. But I get the impression that Cooper was referring to cartridges. |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 12:20:37 PM EDT
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In 22 years of Policing, I have never encountered a gang banger or any other criminal for that matter, who was shooting handloads. Not once have I raided an underground clandestine handloading factory.
I cannot imagine this is an issue of great concern to the police community. |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 1:19:23 PM EDT
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Yeah! WTF is a bullet tip? |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 1:26:23 PM EDT
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2pac?!!! Is that you?!!!! |
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Posted: 4/18/2008 1:30:31 PM EDT
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I wonder how hard it would be to manufacture your own percussion caps for personal use, and what the legalities involved would be?
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Posted: 4/18/2008 1:32:15 PM EDT
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Relatively easy, and legal. I remember reading about people who did this, but it never interested me. Y'know, I bet the news guys could find a way to make 'single-stage press' sound evil and menacing.... |
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