Proposed OSHA Regulation Threatens Firearm and Ammunition Industry

Alternative Proposal: shut down OSHA

That kind of knee-jerk reaction sounds like it would come from someone who is unelectable and out-of-touch. We need bipartisan, middle-of-the-road, go-along-to-get-along-at-the-country-club ideas from thoughtful and considerate establishment types who realize that OSHA is a fundamentally important part of daily life for every American these days.

Freedom scares the sheep.

anhydrous is going up to $600 per ton.

From shotgun world. (trap shooters, skeet shooters, etc are up in ‘arms’)

XIII. Amendments to Standards

For the reasons set forth in the preamble, OSHA proposes to amend
Part 1910 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations as follows:

PART 1910—[AMENDED]

Sec. 1910.109 Explosives.

(a) Scope. (1) This section applies to the manufacture, storage,
sale, transportation, handling, and use of explosives, including
blasting agents and pyrotechnics.

Explosive means any device, or liquid or solid chemical compound or
mixture, the primary or common purpose of which is to function by
explosion.
(i) The term ``explosive’’ includes all material included as a
Class 1 explosive by DOT in accordance with 49 CFR chapter I. The term
includes, but is not limited to, dynamite, black powder, pellet
powders, detonators, blasting agents, initiating explosives, blasting
caps, safety fuse, fuse lighters, fuse igniters, squibs, cordeau
detonant fuse, instantaneous fuse, igniter cord, igniters,
pyrotechnics, special industrial explosive materials, small arms
ammunition, small arms ammunition primers, smokeless propellant

(Ammo and Smokeless powder are now upgraded in hazard designation to the same as real explosives like det’ chord and dynamite)

(c) General provisions. (1) Explosives hazards. The employer shall
ensure the following:

(ii) Only persons trained in accordance with paragraph (j) of this
section handle or use explosives;

(This means the UPS guy can not transport them)

(3) Fire and Explosion Prevention. (i) The employer shall ensure

(C) No person carries firearms, ammunition, or similar articles in
facilities containing explosives or blast sites except as required for
work duties; and

( Bye-Bye indoor shooting range, in a gun shop it is impossible by this)
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[b] (iii) Explosives are not transferred from one vehicle to another
without informing local fire and police departments. A competent person
shall supervise the transfer of explosives. In the event of breakdown
or collision, the local fire and police departments shall be promptly
notified;

(UPS etc. cannot ship under these rules)

(2) Vehicles. (i) The employer shall ensure that any vehicle used
to carry explosives:
(A) Is able to safely carry the designated load;
(B) Has close-fitting floors; and
(C) Has wood or other non-sparking materials covering any exposed
spark-producing metal on the inside of the vehicle body.

(That does not sound like a UPS truck)

(C) Except under emergency conditions, no vehicle containing
explosives is parked before reaching its destination on any public
street adjacent to or in close proximity to any place of employment;

(The UPS guy can not leave his truck to deliver other stuff)

(2) Small arms ammunition. The employer shall ensure that small
arms ammunition is separated from flammable liquids, flammable solids,
and oxidizing materials, by a fire barrier wall with at least a 1-hour
rating or by a distance of at least 25 feet (7.6 m).

(A gun shop cannot do this)

(3) Smokeless propellants. (i) The employer shall ensure that:
(A) All smokeless propellants are stored in shipping containers in
accordance with DOT regulations at 49 CFR part 173 for smokeless
propellants; and
(B) No more than 20 pounds (9.1 kg) of smokeless propellants, in
containers not to exceed 1 pound (.45 kg), are displayed in a
commercial establishment.
(ii) For commercial stocks of smokeless propellants, the employer
shall ensure the following:
(A) Quantities over 20 pounds (9.1 kg) and not exceeding 100 pounds
(45.4 kg) are stored in portable wooden boxes having walls at least 1-
inch (2.54 cm) thick;)

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(4) Small arms ammunition primers. (i) The employer shall ensure
that:
(A) Small arms ammunition primers are stored in shipping containers
in accordance with the applicable regulations of DOT (49 CFR chapter
I);
(B) Small arms ammunition primers are separated from flammable
liquids, flammable solids, and oxidizing materials by a fire barrier
wall with at least a 1-hour rating or by a distance of at least 25 feet
(7.6 m); and
(C) No more than 10,000 small arms primers are displayed in a
commercial establishment.

There is no way for anything but a special vehicle and aircraft to transport ammo under these regs.

... the objective is to disarm the People.

Oh, but that's the beauty of it from a grabbers point of view...you can have all the arms your little heart desires.

A smart and good thing that a gun store can only have ten boxes of primers on display? Or can have only 20 one-pound cans of powder on display? You could not have primers or powder within 20 feet of Coleman stove fuel (flammable liquid) What problem is being solved here?

(4) Small arms ammunition primers.
(i) The employer shall ensure that:
(A) Small arms ammunition primers
are stored in shipping containers in
accordance with the applicable
regulations of DOT (49 CFR chapter I);
(B) Small arms ammunition primers
are separated from flammable liquids,
flammable solids, and oxidizing
materials by a fire barrier wall with at
least a 1-hour rating or by a distance of
at least 25 feet (7.6 m); and
(C) No more than 10,000 small arms
primers are displayed in a commercial
establishment.

Then there is the issue of allowing matches within fifty feet of smokeless powder- they seem to be asking for comment here, but imagine the hassle of being searched for matches or “spark producing” devices when going to a gun store?

Issue #4: OSHA seeks specific
comments on the impact proposed
paragraph (c)(3)(iii) would have on the
storage and retail sale of small arms
ammunition, small arms primers, and
smokeless propellants. Do open flames,
matches, or spark producing devices
create a hazard when located within 50
feet of small arms ammunition, small
arms primers, or smokeless propellants,
or facilities containing these products?
Can employers involved in the storage
or retail sale of small arms ammunition,
small arms primers, or smokeless
propellants prevent all open flames,
matches, or spark producing devices
from coming within 50 feet of these
products or facilities containing these
products? If not, why not?

This is INSANE! They never quit do they!?

Wake up America!!

I would like to propose all of the employees of OSHA involved with this abuse of the 2nd Amendment, be fired, perhaps tar and feathered.

alshaw