Is there any truth to this?

[revolvers&w]

I heard that there was legislation somewhere that would require ammo manufacturers to produce ammo that would have a limited shelf life to prevent stockpiling.
Say it aint so.

 

[ATM]

it aint so.

 

[Que]

I heard that there was legislation somewhere that would require ammo manufacturers to produce ammo that would have a limited shelf life to prevent stockpiling.
Say it aint so.

Where did you hear this?

 

[GURR]

GEEZ I HOPE NOT

 

[Goodcat]

The rumor has come and gone. That would make little legal sense of any ammo manufacturer to produce a product that protects someone's life that may have expired early when needed. Would they make it illegal to reload your own ammo with "ENDLESS LIFE OLD SCHOOL GUNPOWDER AND SUPER ILLEGAL LONG LIFE PRIMERS"!? Silly rumors.

 

[littletommy]

I have not heard that one, but it's a good one. I did, however, earlier this evening, have someone tell me they are doing away with the lifetime LTCH because the state is losing money. That one comes up about twice a day I think.

 

[gunman41mag]

ha ha ha ammo with an expiration date

 

[JoshuaW]

Quick, tell Kirk so he can start tracing it!

 

[Quad]

Sounds like something the Brady Bunch would love to see.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Everyone wants to seem to make a contribution or dispense great wisdom at the gun shop thus this is one of those rumors that refuses to die.

Lifetime license abolition, closed magazines on Mini-14s, inter alia.

The best I've been able to trace this rumor is a corruption of the taggants that the feds were attempting to introduce into gunpowder in the late '90s. Heck, there was even an attempted bombing staged here in Tippecanoe County to advance the cause of taggants. The hired patsy was less than technically proficient.

Guys who were only paying half attention got taggants confused with some super seekrit powder killer program (taggants can cause problems in destabilizing powders which is a problem in nations where it is used).

 

[ThrottleJockey]

I've heard the BS expiring primer rumor for YEARS....it just never dies.

 

[Mosinowner]

How would it expire? It is sealed in the casing. Also people would just buy surplus ammo.

 

[gunman41mag]

Just in case the rumor is true, I'll buy all your ammo for 10 cent on the dollar

 

[Mosinowner]

Aw dang this would make it so we would have to go to the range more often.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

How would it expire? It is sealed in the casing. Also people would just buy surplus ammo.

In theory there could quite simply be a chemical in the primer that decays or degrades at a known and constant rate.....
Got any surplus .357, .44mag, .40, 9mmKurz, etc...?

 

[ATM]

They put a secret ingredient in there that makes you shoot it fortnightly.

 

[Mosinowner]

In theory there could quite simply be a chemical in the primer that decays or degrades at a known and constant rate.....
Got any surplus .357, .44mag, .40, 9mmKurz, etc...?

No. But most guns I shoot have surplus ammo.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

In theory there could quite simply be a chemical in the primer that decays or degrades at a known and constant rate.....
Got any surplus .357, .44mag, .40, 9mmKurz, etc...?

Actually, people, a goodly portion of the "lead free" ammo won't last nearly as long as traditional ammo precisely due to the priming compound.

There's an article in a recent G&A or Shooting Times mag that talks a little about it.

-J-

 

[Uncle Lee]

I think that rumor started around 1994 along with the semi auto and hicap mag ban.

 

[shibumiseeker]

The best I've been able to trace this rumor is a corruption of the taggants that the feds were attempting to introduce into gunpowder in the late '90s. Heck, there was even an attempted bombing staged here in Tippecanoe County to advance the cause of taggants. The hired patsy was less than technically proficient.

Guys who were only paying half attention got taggants confused with some super seekrit powder killer program (taggants can cause problems in destabilizing powders which is a problem in nations where it is used).

The feds also wanted to put taggants in explosive materials which the ISEE fought. Aside from the "changing the properties of the materials" argument, there's about 3 billion pounds of explosives used annually in industry and every gravel road and concrete structure would contain taggants and eventually it would degrade the effectiveness of them but add considerable industry cost, for very little real gain.