New Powder and Primer Storage regs - Much Better

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:53:29 -0500
From: cssa-cila-e-news@lists.cssa-cila.org
Subject: [CSSA-CILA E-News] EXPLOSIVES ACT UPDATE – GOOD NEWS FOR HANDLOADERS

CANADIAN SHOOTING SPORTS ASSOCIATION / CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION

TEAM CSSA SPECIAL REPORT - December 18, 2013

EXPLOSIVES ACT UPDATE – GOOD NEWS FOR HANDLOADERS

After eight years of consultation and development with Natural Resources Canada, CSSA/CILA are pleased to announce the introduction of new draft regulations for the storage and acquisition of handloading components and ammunition. These regulations apply specifically to combustible ammunition components regulated under the Explosives Act. We believe these new regulations will allow greater freedoms to handloaders without presenting significant restrictions for others.

CSSA/CILA were one of the principal organizations responsible for this progressive step forward for handloaders in Canada. A brief summary of the new proposals is shown below. To view the entire document, go to the CSSA website (www.cdnshootingsports.org).

Propellants:

Current Storage Limit – 10 kg
Proposed Storage Limit (single dwelling unit) - 25 kg propellant af which no more than 10 kg may be black powder + 75 kg in separate storage outside of dwelling with no separation distance
Proposed Storage Limit (multi-dwelling unit) – 5 kg of smokeless or 20 kg smokeless in containers of 1kg or less, 2 kg black powder in bulk in containers of 500 g or less and 3 kg in cartouches and bulk

Primers/Percussion Caps:

Current Storage Limit – “a reasonable quantity” (reasonable is up to the Judge)
Proposed Storage Limit – Unlimited in original packaging – up to 150 "stored" in loading equipment

Ammunition:

Current Storage Limit – “a reasonable quantity” (reasonable is up to the Judge)
Proposed Storage Limit – 225 kg NEQ, i.e., propellant loaded into cartridges*

Acquisition:

Current – name and address provided at point of sale
Proposed – POL or PAL number (only) required OR name and address recorded for two years

Businesses:

Ammunition: Storage limits for sale – no change (225 kg NEQ)
Propellant: no change (12 kg propellant)**
Primers/Percussion Caps: 10,000 primers for display, unlimited storage if kept in their original packaging
** sellers must enroll on the seller’s list

** More can be stored with a license (quantities would depend on the license).

These regulation are currently posted on the NRCan website and will be published in the Canada Gazette early 2010.

We believe these regulations represent a significant advancement for handloaders and we respectfully request you support them. These regulations represent the fruit of eight years labour on your behalf by CILA/CSSA through many face to face meetings and countless phone and email communications. We were delighted to discover that the personnel at NRCan (Explosives Branch) were very professional, cooperative and sympathetic to the needs of firearms owners.


Please take the time to thank NRCan Minister Joe Oliver at joe.oliver@parl.gc.ca

Just another example of CSSA/CILA working for you.
 
Primers/Percussion Caps:

Current Storage Limit – “a reasonable quantity” (reasonable is up to the Judge)
Proposed Storage Limit – Unlimited in original packaging – up to 150 "stored" in loading equipment
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150 in loading equipment. Does that include dillons primer system filling tubes?
 
Seems like you can't reload for anything above 19.1mm anymore. Gonna be some unhappy 20mm owners :(

Good news is tracers are now legal :)
 
Hey, I wrote Joe about this last year. Glad he listened to me. Now if him and his buddies would only do something about C-68!
 
Ganderite said:
Proposed Storage Limit (multi-dwelling unit) – 5 kg of smokeless or 20 kg smokeless in containers of 1kg or less, 2 kg black powder in bulk in containers of 500 g or less and 3 kg in cartouches and bulk
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Question: is "cartouche" simply French for "cartridge", or does "cartouche" have a different meaning in the context of ammunition/reloading that I should be aware of?


Ganderite said:
Just another example of CSSA/CILA working for you.
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Much appreciated to all who helped out with this. Sensible, non-ambigous wordings, and all the arbitrariness (is that a word?) removed - good work!
 
Is there a link to the new regs? The CSSA said we should support the last version of this as well if I remember correctly and that was a huge mistake.What changes to the proposed storage regs as far as locking up all ammo and powders? Need more info here before accepting these changes since the last time CSSA was throwing us under the bus.
 
I was just going to ask about the storage requirements which are currently just dumb. Allowing 20KG in a single dwelling unit is a huge improvement but what if any changes are there to the storage requirements. I hate being a paper criminal that has taken safety to the extreme's but hate following stupid laws written by the same people that have more volatile substances stored in there garage's and sheds (IE;s gasoline) with no limits to personal storage limits.
 
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