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IMHO, I think the controversy over handloads comes back to"you can't possibly do it right as you are a civilian" <heavy sarcasm>... in other words, handloaders are stepping ontoes on the other side of the line betweenState and civilian. Of course, maybe countering with, "It's not rocket science," could get the point across. It is no more intense than being a mechanic, or cooking 2-3 meals per day, every day, for the past 29 years for my family and not once sending anyone to the hospital with food poisioning
, or any of a hundred other professions that if they get it wrong, someone could die.
One way that
might work on getting loading info accepted in court would be to mail the card to yourself and never open the envelope unless you are actually sitting on the stand in court. Again, that
might work. But, if the judge doesn't want it in, it ain't getting in. No way, no how.
I buy certain calibers from a certified reloader and when I was talking to him about what "certified" meant, he told me that the military and most federal agencies would accept his testimony as expert and his ammo as "to spec," but that a state criminal court would not. That meant that he would not testify if something happened with me shooting a round of his ammo and ending up in court in my state.
