Your opinion on future prices and availability of primers ,powder and bullets.

[JonB]

Is it even Federally legal to reload for others? I always tell people I cannot load for them due to Federal ATF regulations. Some class FFL license BS or other.

The law is kinda grey. Phrases like "In the business" & "making a livelyhood" are used in the law. All I know is, it would suck to be explaining to a Judge, how I swapped a box of reloads for two old silver US half dollars, but it wasn't part of my livelyhood ...even though I believe the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act covers that.

 

[fiver]

trading is fine.
bartering is okay.
the occasional sale, fine too.

having a sign in your front window, setting a table up at the swap meet [more than like 2 times a year] or handing out business cards in the parking lot of your LGS ..... no.

 

[JonB]

fiver,
I hope you are my Judge, LOL

 

[358156 hp]

I have access to a Class 6 license. Their pricing and availability ain't too spiffy either, and you need to buy really large quantities from most vendors to beat local pricing.

 

[shuz]

Yesterday I bought some CCI BR2 primers at the Black Sheep in CdA for a friend and paid $$11.99/C.These were the only large rifle primers that they had!

 

[Bret4207]

$11.99 @ 100? Ouch!

 

[Mitty38]

Ye, thought I was getting raped $75 tax included for 1000.

But I guess if you really needed them, then that justifies buying a square at 12, just to get thru. What the crapper is, they can not be shipped by an individual.

My cousin and I found a work around on the shipping by loading in brass for each other and shipping the unfinished cases, fed ex as live ammo, in leftover ammo boxes,100 at a time to each other. Trading 380 for 223. But that was a lot of Hassel and expense and we only resorted to that when we could get none.

Most I ever paid thru all this was $8.50 per 100 and I just bought 1 box at that time. Just to get me thru a few months with practice rounds.

 

[JWFilips]

I'm sitting on a poor supply of large pistol and small pistol primers....I'm pretty good for awhile on large rifle primers & maybe small rifle primers.
Since I now feel old, I do not like to shoot in 20 deg weather even though our public range is devoid of people!. A few years ago I would be there by 8 am every morning! Just not fun any more! Once temps stabilize above freezing I will be back out on the rifle range....& will save what I have left of pistol primers until things improve ( if ever)