Just for background ...
Have ANY small arms buildings or ammo storage sites or gun stores or small arms manufactoring facilities exploded (from this specific kind of activity) during the past 150 years?
Well, we just can't take a chance...
Actually, I was doing some contracting work at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, outside of Independence, MO the day a primer mixer building blew up. From examining the video tape records the operator violated safety policies, and was doing things he should never have done. Some people theorized that he committed suicide. It was a very large explosion. IIRC, about 10 pounds of primer compound was mixed at a time, and it went up. Not a good thing.
Mark
“....Have ANY small arms buildings or ammo storage sites or gun stores or small arms manufactoring facilities exploded (from this specific kind of activity) during the past 150 years?....”
The Explosion at the Hercules Powder Factory of
Kenvil, New Jersey on September 12, 1940
http://www.roxburynewjersey.com/hercules.htm