I am an NRA member and I’ve not seen anything about this in the NRA magazines.
It wouldn’t surprise me. I think I’ll start learning how to reload.
While I have no doubt that someone, somewhere is indeed working on this I have seen no evidence that it’s come anywhere close to fruition. Properly stored commercial ammunition will last decades.
They might- but since longer lasting ammunition is a known technology it wouldn’t work- some smart guy would be selling contraband ammo out of the back of his Cadillac Escalade....
Talk about planned obsolescence.
There is no such thing.
I am sure short shelf-life ammunition could be created, but nobody would want it.....even the military.
You would need an act of Congress to mandate its use and that would create a firestorm in itself.
This is just one of those stupid rumors that people waste their time on rather than focusing on the real issues.
would that be like those movies on DVD that would play 2 or 3 times and then go poof, LOL Ammo going poof if you don’t use in time
I'd recommend that Chemist get himself some kind of insurance.
If he's only got five months I expect most insurance companies won't cover him.
Pre-existing condition, that five month shelf life.
Or hell, maybe he should just take a cruise and have a
huge fun time if he's going to snuff it in a few months.
Interesting question.
I doubt the ammo makers would want to assume any of the liability that would inevitably be pinned on them when somebody was brutally murdered because the ammo in their self-defense weapon was five months and one day old.
Sounds like something Microsoft would sell.
I heard the same rumor back during the Clinton administration. It was not true then either. A five month shelf life would not be an on/off switch situation (i.e. at five months the powder suddenly stops working.) It would be a gradual deterioration that would mean weaker and weaker powder. This would lead to rounds stuck in barrels and barrels and actions exploding when the next round was fired.
No company would sell such powder because of the lawsuits. Besides those who still have guns (lost mine in a tragic boating accident) already have enough ammo for CWII.
Just buy Milsurplus.
They would never mess with the military’s ammo.
I’m sure they are paying someone to look into this. Why not? They spend money on all kinds of stupid studies and things like teaching African guys (in Africa) that they should wash their private parts.
In this case it boils down to chemistry. Read the part about instability and stabilization at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokeless_powder. No doubt the goobamint types would love to have a self-expiring type of ammo so they could cut off supplies and just wait around. Then they could say they “made the world safer”. IMHO, I’ve made the world “safer” by having ammo that will be useful for the next 30 years or so.
What if the federal government put a tax of $10,000 per box? Or the states too? Make it too expensive. A firearm is just a piece of iron if you can’t get bullets for it.
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total BS
There were urban legends during the early days of the Clintonista regime about this. If I remember it correctly, the primers were the fictitious target of obsolescence. This caused a run on existing stocks.
Many of us simply discovered the merits of surplus ammo about this time. I can remember buying surplus 7.62x51 NATO for a little as 15 cents a round. A hundred dollar bill would get you over a thousand rounds of commie 7.62x39.
Those days are gone.
I wonder what spoiled bullets would smell like.
“Honey, fer cryin’ out loud will you throw out those bullets, they are stinking the place up”
The spreading of such false rumors is what precipitated the "Hillary Panic of 1993" and caused massive over-buying of primers by gullible consumers which resulted in a genuine shortage for over a year.
I spent my career working for the largest ammunition manufacturer and spent 7 years as the "Primer Engineer". The technology described does not exist and will not exist. Period!
It is an extreme disservice to propagate such unfounded rumors.