[Dog Gone]

I hate to demonstrate my ignorance for all to see, but what is centerfire ammo?

I own 7 guns, including a mini-14 that would have been effected by this amendment, but what makes its ammo "centerfire"?

[alaskanfan]

what is centerfire ammo?

Any cartridge that has a primer in the center as opposed to rimfire ammo. Yes your mini-14 would have been effected.

[WorkingClassFilth]

The primer is centered in the base of the case. Rimfire is not.

[deport]

Look at the back of your ammo..... where the firing pin strikes the ammo.... center or rim

[demlosers]

but what is centerfire ammo?

See the circle(cup) in the center of the cartridge:

[Centurion2000]

I hate to demonstrate my ignorance for all to see, but what is centerfire ammo?

Centerfire ammunition is any ammunition that uses a percussion cap in the base of the shell/cartridge casing to ignite the powder. This allows you to pop out the percussion cap and use the casing over when you reload ammunition. Pretty much 98% of all rifle ammunition and any pistol ammunition above .22 caliber with few exceptions.

The other type of cartridge ammo is called rimfire because there there is no percussion cap in the center. .22 Long Rifle and .22 Short are the biggest sellers in rimfire ammo. You also cannot easily reload this ammunition.

[xsysmgr]

I hate to demonstrate my ignorance for all to see, but what is centerfire ammo?

Centerfire ammo is ammo which fires when it is struck in the center by a firing pin (all modern ammo except .22's) as opposed to rimfire ammo which fires when it is struck on the rim by the firing pin (no modern ammo except .22's). Your Mini-14 is centerfire.

[Dan from Michigan]

Tough to explain, except that it's almost all ammo outside a 'rimfire .22'. All ammo where the primer is hit in the center.

That includes the mini-14, as well as a .30-30 Winchester, AK-47 ammo, the .308, .30-06, .243, 9mm, 10mm, 8mm, .243, .357, .300 win mag.....and on and on and on.

[Cobra64]

I own 7 guns, including a mini-14 that would have been effected by this amendment, but what makes its ammo "centerfire"?

If ya don't know, you should probably sell the hardware. Two types of primers. Rimfire, as in a .22, which is struck by a firing pin on the edge of the cartridge case; and cannot be reloaded. Or a centerfire primer which is struck by a firing pin in the center of the cartridge case. Hence the expression "rimfire or centerfire."

[painter]

OH COME ON!

You surely know.Take a cartridge from your mini 14 and look at the back.The primer is in the center of it,Center fire.

That ban would have outlawed every firearm except the 22.

Kerry's vote should cook his goose with every gun owner in the country.