Proposed OSHA Rule; impact on ammunition

[MountainDon]

A back door attempt to regulate firearms by regulating your ammunition? OSHA has lumped small arms ammunition into a new proposed explosives rule. It is specifically mentioned in the proposed rule (page 54 of 55 pages.) This includes reloading supplies.

The following is copied from the NRA website
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3145

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed new rules that would have a dramatic effect on the storage and transportation of ammunition and handloading components such as primers or black and smokeless powder. The proposed rule indiscriminately treats ammunition, powder and primers as "explosives." Among many other provisions, the proposed rule would:

   * Prohibit possession of firearms in commercial "facilities containing explosives"—an  obvious problem for your local gun store.
   * Require evacuation of all "facilities containing explosives"—even your local Wal-Mart—during any electrical storm.
   * Prohibit smoking within 50 feet of "facilities containing explosives."

It's important to remember this is only a proposed rule right now, so there's still time for concerned citizens to speak out before OSHA issues its final rule. The National Rifle Association, National Shooting Sports Foundation, and Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute will all be commenting on these proposed regulations, based on the severe effect these regulations (if finalized) would have on the availability of ammunition and reloading supplies to safe and responsible shooters.

The public comment period ends July 12. To file your own comment, or to learn more about the OSHA proposal, go to http://www.regulations.gov/ and search for Docket Number OSHA-2007-0032"; you can read OSHA's proposal and learn how to submit comments electronically, or by fax or mail.

Comments may be left on the http://www.regulations.gov/ website.

[glenn kangiser]

I wonder if this applies to powder actuated fasteners too?

[MountainDon]

They're notnamed but other OSHA materials refer to them as explosive devices....   :-/

[glenn kangiser]

Keep in mind that OSHA does not apply to individuals and owner builders except if they have or could affect other peoples employees.

I like to remind safety inspectors that I am self employed and OSHA has no jurisdiction over me as agreed to by them the last time a union rep filed a complaint against me when they felt I was taking their work.  Maybe not in my best interest to argue with them but there are too many parasitic agencies out they preying on the few of us who actually work for a living.

I find that most of the stupid accidents on jobs happen to the substance abusers on the jobs.  There are of course real accidents to even the most wary, but multiply that about tenfold for substance abuse while working.

The thing you mentioned here, Don, goes way beyond reasonableness as it affects everyone.  Oh -- save me from myself -- please -- I'm too stupid---- not.

[benevolance]

Glenn

What did you expect...Some union guy sees you flat out getting it done and their guys on their asses...Something needs to be done about that...

I am not a big union guy at all... They have some use I guess...But I think that they mostly protect the lazy drunks...and artifically inflate the cost of everything!

[glenn kangiser]

Pretty much my feeling in many cases.  

Most of the good union guys are out working long time jobs and most of them in the hall waiting for a job can't pass a drug test in our area.  In the San Jose area one guy told me he got the job he was on because he was the only one in the Union Hall who could pass the drug test.

[fourx]

Certainly a backdoor method of gun-control was in place in Australia in the two or so years before the general banning of guns and ""gun buyback"" scam...I was asked to show a gun license to buy ammo two years before licencing was introduced.
Union membership is in free-fall down here, with only a very small proportion of the workforce now in Unions, and since the advent of mobile phones which take video there have been a number of cases of Union meetings, with all the foul language, pommie shop-steward Marxist thuggery and boasts about gougeing unfair wage raises, being secretly filmed and the results shown on national television, with huge public revulsion at the actions filmed.

[glenn kangiser]

One of the "quit"  union dopers I hired to help on a job who relapsed in about a week, told me of the training sessions they had there on how to hassle non-union companies.  Some of them are fine to work with but some are just in it for the protection afforded them by the gang.