Wow...media telling us how dangerous "reloading" can be!!

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"With the wrong ingredients in the incorrect quantity" I could make deadly poison while mixing cake batter. What an idiotic sentiment. Let's not forget most of our greatest inventors grew up making dangerous or illegal stuff in their garages. To think some of them could've got skinned knees! :eek:

TCB
 
http://www.fowlerfirearms.com/
add this place to the boycott list, all this BS is making me sick
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We should be careful about rushing to judgement on this establishment. I know nothing about them, and they maybe problematic. However, my elementary schooler teacher wife once got interviewed by local media, and by the time they done with the story, it sounded like she never teaches science. Could be true of this store too.
 
XD Fan said:
We should be careful about rushing to judgement on this establishment. I know nothing about them, and they maybe problematic. However, my elementary schooler teacher wife once got interviewed by local media, and by the time they done with the story, it sounded like she never teaches science. Could be true of this store too.
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Very true...that is why it is best when media outlets come around with their cameras and microphones looking for sound bites, to just clam up and not say a word to them.

"when can you tell if a media outlet wants to make you look bad? They are interviewing you"
 
I'll raise the same point as beatledog7. Like backyard brake jobs or house wiring, reloading can be dangerous if not done properly. I wouldn't trust or use other people's hand loads unless I personally know and trust that person's experience, knowledge, attention to detail, etc.
Of course I do my own brakes, wire my own house, and load almost all my own ammo, and I trust myself implicitly. :)

Tinpig
 
ThorinNNY said:
It seems there`s always some ding a ling or other starting absurd rumors about something or other. I got an e-mail saying at length - 2-3 pages that GLADE Plug In air fresheners are an even greater fire hazard than smoking in bed.
As they say, a mind is a terrible thing to abuse or was it is a terrible thing to lose one`s mind !?

PS how many of us were told "you`ll shot your eye out!" when we wanted a BB gun when we were kids. How many of us actually DID shoot their eye out?
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You want real danger?

Try reloading a Glade Plug In Air Freshner.
 
Their facebook page shows them as excited about the news piece being done in their store. While they may not want people bringing in reloaded ammo for some purposes, we don't really know if their quote may have been bent to imply what the reporter or editor wanted to imply. Almost anyone can be made to look foolish and/or contrary to their message through creative editing.
 
So you're telling me a "journalist" has no idea what they are reporting on? Shocking I tell you....
 
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Well, no more benefit of the doubt. They are a range that only allows their own ammo to be used. No bringing any ammo of your own. I bet they run regular sales on 22, 9mm, 223,.... :rolleyes:
 
It's this kind of brain-dead "reporting" that leads to, as one of you already said, the government stepping in "for public safety". Oddly, I don't know of any ranges that forbid reloads. I have been to maybe a dozen different ranges in Kansas and Missouri and have never even heard that being a concern. I've never seen a sign saying "no reloads". We must be prepared for an all out assault on our gun rights and privileges for at least the next 4 years.
 
Indoor ranges around here ban steel case ammo (messes with their recycling revenue stream), armor piercing (wrecks the range), and tracers (fire hazard), and 50 BMG (backstop may not be strong enough). Otherwise, anything goes, yours, theirs, or Mart-Mart's.
 
Their facebook page shows them as excited about the news piece being done in their store.
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Well, no more benefit of the doubt. They are a range that only allows their own ammo to be used.
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I wonder what the odds are on their clientel being mostly affluent new shooters with little experience? You say they have a facebook page..?:evil::evil::evil:

I sent the "journalists" an email explaining that reloading is as safe as automotive maintanence, and that it is an age old hobby done by budget or accuracy conscious shooters, who are almost always as cautious as anyone else doing something important. I demanded their either take down the piece, or edit it to include at least one of these legitimate uses for reloading ammunition to show they have a shred of credibility.

TCB
 
"A round that is over charged is going to take the path of least resistance, which could be through the grip, where your hand is placed. That can blow the entire side of the gun out," said Josh Hackman of Fowler Firearms.

In fact it's so dangerous, Fowler Firearms doesn't allow reloaded ammo on their shooting range.
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THIS is why you DO NOT TALK TO THE MEDIA!

These are "drive by" stories where they send out a reporter to get some quotes from some dummy which are then used to push a dying agenda.
 
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I wonder what the odds are on their clientel being mostly affluent new shooters with little experience? You say they have a facebook page..?:evil::evil::evil:
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What's the odds that they instigated the whole piece? The sort of people they are catering to are not the sort who will see the news piece as BS.
 
I always wondered how long it would take before these fools figured out that many of us reload and therefore are "off the grid" with our ammo. Apparently this new trend(that started in the 1800s) is so dangerous that surely someone will propose legislation regulating it.
 
robhof

It's supposed to become illegal, when they perfect the microstamping of the cartridge. I just put my initials on all my home rolls so the perp knows who killed him!!:neener::fire::cuss::banghead:
 
Wow. What a dangerous concept. I really wish there were books and websites filled with information telling people how to safely reload ammunition so they don't get hurt.
 
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