http://www.nbc-2.com/story/214...-dangerous-new-trend

The article illustrates the complete lack of critical thinking rampant among the MSM. It's really too bad gullibility is not a prosecutable offense.

I particularly like the word "new". Guess 45 years at this game counts as nothing.

Or have I just been very, very lucky?

Sam

They repack gun powder in a cartridge case??? How do they possibly do that--must be a very new thing.

Josh Hackman of Fowler Firearms sounds like a real idiot.

This just in! NBC2 has just learned that some manufacturers are now equipping tricycles, at significant risk to the children, with three wheels! THREE!!!
Many of the parents contacted, have said they will refuse to allow these machines of mayhem in their back yards unless proper training wheels are installed. Tricycle officers shake their heads sadly, warn of the significant risk involved in riding a tricyle with three wheels...

OH MY roger

The real bad thing about this is that ignorant idiots will believe it. Most certainly piss poor reporting but that's the norm these days.
Bear in Fairbanks

Most ranges won't let you shoot a reload because they say they lose money on ammo sales. I know of one range that will let you shoot reloads but only if you bought your components from them.

Weird. I've been reloading over 20 yrs., never had a problem, not even had a missfire. BUT i have had manufactured ammunition split, missfire, seen bullets loaded backwards in the casing and so on. Bad press is never any good, people take crap like that as the truth.

All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!! did they realy let that be aired? Im just like the rest of us after 30 years of "repacking" gunpowder in used cases I guess I'm lucky I not blown my guns up. Dangerous only if you do it without learning how to do it correctly, just like driving a car, New? NOT.

I don’t read anything in that article that is untrue.

It is true that an improperly reloaded cartridge is dangerous.

It is true that improperly reloaded cartridges have caused firearms to blow up.

It is also true that the current panic has caused stocks of new ammunition to dry up.

It is also true that it is in the financial interest of gun stores, ranges, ammunition manufacturers, to make you buy their expensive new ammunition.

If gun banners can improve their chances of making gun ownership more difficult and expensive, and corporations can increase their profits through bans of reloads, well, politics makes strange bedfellows.

Sadly there gun counter guys with slightly less knowledge than the reporters depicted in the link

AND

gun owners too.

Of course this is total crap reporting but I've never had a single range tell me I can't shoot my own reloads.

These local news broadcasts are full of false drama, meant for consumption by the lowest common denominator. I especially enjoy the weather reporters during a big storm when they tell you "We're going to stay here with you until the danger passes to make sure you are all OK and get through this storm without incident". Yea right! Here in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area last night, they had a new "LEAD STORY" that is impacting thousands of North Texas Residents ... turns out the overly dramatic lead in was a trumped up story about pick up trucks having their tailgates stolen. Oh the humanity!!

Todd is correct. False drama to bring in viewers. And spread mis-informantion.

Well you missed the first one right off the bat...
That reloading is a new phenomenon.
Most of the rest of it is here say since there is not a person on the report staff that has ever seen a reload malfunction.

The local ranges permit you to use reloads in your own firearms but not in the firearms the range rents to shooters.

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Originally posted by SlamFire:
I don’t read anything in that article that is untrue.

It is true that an improperly reloaded cartridge is dangerous.

It is true that improperly reloaded cartridges have caused firearms to blow up.

It is also true that the current panic has caused stocks of new ammunition to dry up.

It is also true that it is in the financial interest of gun stores, ranges, ammunition manufacturers, to make you buy their expensive new ammunition.

If gun banners can improve their chances of making gun ownership more difficult and expensive, and corporations can increase their profits through bans of reloads, well, politics makes strange bedfellows.

OK, lets see... reloading dangerous... new type of danger... cause gun owners are dangerous, especially when there is a shortage of their dangerous guns, or a shortage of their dangerous ammo... cause gun owners are dangerous... and an asshat at a gun range confirmed it...

And yet, if this were true, everyone in this country would be dead... the math just isn't adding up.

On all my ranges I allow my self to shoot reloads and any body else also.

My gun club would not have much going on at the rifle range if they did not allow reloads to be used.

I wonder what the reporter would do if he saw guys pouring molten lead through a sieve and into a water bucket for bird shot.

Its the REPORTING that is dangerous!