Bulk Powder Storage

[sherpadoug]

How do um..er..our friends store powder, especially when your club orders a 25 pound case and it will be a while till your friend can distribute it to the members?
I hear that at least in Massachusetts you can keep 2 pounds bulk plus lots of cartridges in your home. Above that you are supposed to have a Fire Department approved storage facility. But a 5 gallon plastic pail buried in a sand pile in the back yard sounds a whole lot simpler!

 

From what I have been told by gunshop owners in Michigan, BATF requires a grounded, static-proof/spark proof magazine with two non-sparking (brass) padlocks on the front for merchants. I would contact your state police and local BATF to find out regulations in your area...but call from a payphone or a friend's house, LOL!

 

[roundball]

Actually, at the state level, it's the State Fire Marshall's Offices...

FYI...the Federal law, including the recent Patriot Act, continues to honor the recreational black powder exemption, allowing individual's to store up to 50lbs for recreational use with no special constraints, requirements, licenses, registration, or storage magazines / facilities, etc.

If your state has implemented something that supercedes the Federal Law, you have my condolences.......so far, North Carolina feels Federal Law is enough control.

 

[musketman]

But a 5 gallon plastic pail buried in a sand pile in the back yard sounds a whole lot simpler!

Plastic would not be a good choice for this hypothetical resolution, some plastics create and store static, yes I know, it has been proven that static won't set off black powder, but why chance it...

I hear that at least in Massachusetts you can keep 2 pounds bulk plus lots of cartridges in your home.

Here is your obvious answer...

Do you have 12 in-laws and close friends?

Store 2 pounds at each of their houses for the duration...

Let's see, the dog has a house, that is 2 pounds accounted for, the bird house will take another 2 pounds... :hmm: