Limits on purchasing / having gunpowder

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charlie in md

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I just found out about a Maryland regulation that limits the amount of gunpowder you can purchase or have at any one time. First, I had it passed to me from my club's secretary that you can only buy 4 pounds of powder at one time. I did an internet search on Maryland laws, and they seem to say that no one can have more than 5 pounds of gunpowder at a time without a license. SO what do you do if you reload the whole range of cartridges? (rifle, shotgun, pistol, blackpowder). 4 pounds of red dot gets me through only about 4 months of skeet shooting!:(

Thoughts, comments?
 
Not to make light of your problem, living elsewhere might be a possibility.

Keeping personal affairs to yourself could be another aspect.
 
there are reasons

That I stay in MD (for now).

One is that I have a steady job with excellent 'intangible' benefits, and it is only a 10 minute drive to work.

Kids are in school and I don't want to uproot them.

Cost for hunting is relatively low. About 45 dollars will cover everything except waterfowl.

The gun laws are absolutely onerous, and are part of the reason I will leave the state when I retire. (State taxes are another big driver).

I was b****ing more than anything else. As the old chief said in Josey Wales, I will "endeavour to perservere"

thanks
C
 
charlie in md.

Might one note that "life is a bitch", or it certainly can be one.

I grew up in New york, actually NYC, which I departed from permanently in 1967, the year they enacted a requirement for long gun registration in the city. I have never looked back. I was single then and though since married for years and years, never entered the child raising business. Also I've been retired for several years.

I personally have worked and lived domestically in 20 plus states in addition to three foreign countries. I enjoyed living like a gypsy, though that sort of arrangement is certainly not for many people.

Anyhow, hang in there, your kids will finish school eventually, you will retire, happily one hopes, in the process saying goodbye to Maryland, parts of which I have fairly pleasant memories of residing in. That was a long time ago though, and as P.O. Ackley once observed re the subject of change, "while change involved movement, it is not always movement in the direction of improvement". So it has come to be in altogether to many places, sad to note.
 
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