Cartridge storage

[Dustem Dave]

Just out of interest does anyone know how many cartridges can you leagally store in your home

[J@mes]

no limit that you are ever likely to exceed, unless you buy them by the truckload! sure I read 10,000 due to the amount of gunpowder in them, but it could just be a rumour!

[philfishers2]

no limit that you are ever likely to exceed, unless you buy them by the truckload! sure I read 10,000 due to the amount of gunpowder in them, but it could just be a rumour!

 

 

don't know answer to op......but we 'ad no bother buying 13,000 from Kellbrook other week

 

 

Phil

[100milesaway]

I used to have a regular stash of 15000, in my kitchen piled up neatly next to the cooker to keep them in prime condition. I did check once on the permited allowance and i was assured that even with that amount i would still be legal. i just threw a table cloth over them so that if someone did look through the window they would not have been " on view". from Auntie.

[HW682]

If a shotgun cartridge is classed as small arms ammunition then the limit is around 10,000.

See link http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/tradingstandards/business/licensing.asp

 

info pasted: Explosives

If you keep shotgun cartridges or fireworks for sale you will probably require registration under the Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005. If you keep ammunition for small arms you may keep up to 15 kilogrammes of powder in the form of cartridges (at 1.62 grammes or 25 grains of powder per cartridge you can keep up to 9,260 without registration; at 2.72 grammes or 42 grains of powder per cartridge you can keep 5,500 cartidges without registration. The storage of other products such as motor vehicle air bag inflators or nail gun cartridges also requires registration but up to 5 kilogrammes can be stored without registration.

 

Not 100% clear as it starts talking about shotgun cartridges and then swithces to mentioning small arms ammunition.

 

Edit:

 

with most things like this it is best to use any info on the internet as a guide and then check out the facts by looking at the actual legislation.

see The Control of Explosive Substances 1991 regulations it seems up to 15Kg of smokeless powder is permitted in a private premises when loaded into small arms ammunition. Just looked at a slab of Hull Special Pigeon which are marked with UN 0012, which appears on schedule 1 as cartridges, small arms UN0012. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1531/schedule/1/made

Edited December 8, 2010 by HW682

[bop]

As other Northern Ireland residents will know, my FAC (all guns are on a FAC here) limits at 1,000 for each bore/ calibre. All mine stored in a gunsafe. It may be possible to get more?- but I doubt it.

Edited December 9, 2010 by bop

[Kermit the frog]

10,000 is about the figure, limited by weight of powder (propellant), above this number you need to inform the fire service, who will inspect (and charge you) to access fire the risk. You can not store them where their is a possible fire source, etc.

 

Storing more without proper certification, may void your insurance, if you have a fire!

 

kermit

[HDAV]

I thought explosives licences were free?

[Kermit the frog]

"Registration under the Manufacture and storage of explosives regulations 2005"

 

is regulated at 2 levels

 

Registration over 62.5 kgs up to 250 kgs. of explosive

 

Licence over 250 kgs.

 

you pay for both

 

kermit