Inside the World of D.I.Y. Ammunition

**bamboomaster** · October 6th, 2018, 12:26 PM

This is actually a surprisingly well-written article by the NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/u...mmunition.html

Wasn't able to detect any blathering negativity. Amazing...

**Twoboxer** · October 6th, 2018, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by bamboomaster

This is actually a surprisingly well-written article by the NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/u...mmunition.html

Wasn't able to detect any blathering negativity. Amazing...

Not yet lol. Just wait though.

This article should not be interpreted as a simple, descriptive piece about a legal, honorable, and worthy set of hobbies. The NYT clearly has no interest in doing that. It is a baseline informative piece containing the dog whistles after which collective hysteria can be nurtured and stoked.

DIY ammo makers (DIYAM) are making their own plastic guns. DIYAMs, not regulated commercial producers, are inventing and manufacturing the special ammo required for them to function effectively. DIYAM loaders make more lethal ammo, mostly by picking up that dastardly metal called "lead" that apparently is still littering our countrysides. DIYAM ammo is cheaper, avoiding taxes on the cost and profit from assembling it and allowing for more frequent, more widespread, more lethal firearm violence.

If the article attracts the concerns and outrages of enough readers . . . well, pile up enough water and you get a tsunami.

Not paranoid . . . just experienced

**cephas** · October 6th, 2018, 03:54 PM

"customize ammunition for heightened accuracy or lethality"
Only thing I saw that made me go hmm. Accuracy=lethality? OK gotta hit what your aiming at.
Or for better accuracy and to make rounds more lethal than commonly available?
But yeah for the NYT it was one of their better efforts.

**Emptymag** · October 6th, 2018, 05:02 PM

I don't have time to read that, what with all the time I spend not reloading...

**markshere2** · October 6th, 2018, 05:53 PM

Oh good, more exposure from Tass / Pravda on the Hudson.

Fcuking leftist rag does NOT have the interests of freedom in mind.

**Bang** · November 9th, 2018, 08:04 PM

On the way to my home by UPS is box of Underwood xtreme .380, which Shooting the Bull says is IT for mouse guns. I do this knowing that if i ever have to employ it to the purpose for which it is manufactured, I will be painted in a poor light by survivors. But time is on my side. I am confident it too shall be surpassed technologically, and i shall soon look less extreme if and when forced to use it.

**DonBiase** · November 9th, 2018, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by markshere2

Oh good, more exposure from Tass / Pravda on the Hudson.

Fcuking leftist rag does NOT have the interests of freedom in mind.

There's no news in Tass, and no truth in Pravda.
At least the Russian people knew that.

**GeneCC** · November 22nd, 2018, 09:33 PM

No News in Novosty (the latter word means "news" in Russian") and no truth in Pravda (pradva means truth in Russian).

Could have been the same as Don Biase showed above too.

Soviet era humor was bitter.

**JDA58** · November 22nd, 2018, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by Emptymag

I don't have time to read that, what with all the time I spend not reloading...

**Gunsnwater** · November 22nd, 2018, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by bamboomaster

This is actually a surprisingly well-written article by the NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/u...mmunition.html

Wasn't able to detect any blathering negativity. Amazing...

Across the country, millions of weapons aficionados like Mr. Crumling reload their own ammunition and cast their own bullets — time-consuming hobbies that have been a part of firearms culture for generations.

Generations? Try since the conception. Its only the last few generations that has gun owners who only buy loaded ammo.