What happens if someone confiscates unsafe reloaded ammo and uses it?

My guess would likely be a lawsuit by the injured party, regardless of how he/she came into posession of them,(aint modern society great). if it was proven that they were intentionally loaded to be unsafe, I'd suspect there wouldd VERY likely be a large amount of money awarded to they injured, and maybe even criminal charges to the "loader".
 
Heist - I'm growing more and more uncomfortable with this thread. Please answer Tim's question: Under what circumstances would someone do this? (confiscate your ammo)

Thanks. :)
 
I thought he mean't if someone at the range confiscates reloads as they are not allowed at the range for the possibility of a KABOOM actually occuring due to a careless reloader. If this should happen and the man who confiscates the reloads for the above said reason then uses them.....then that man deserves to lose a few fingers. He confiscates potentially dangerous ammo for safety and then uses them and thus has no grounds to sue anyone in my mind.

Of course I can't imagine the range confiscating your property, they would just tell you to take it out and leave it in the car.
 
Well, I've always noticed how people who reload never let anyone else use their ammo, and won't use other people's reloads either.

If a round that would function in one person's specific gun but would detonate a glock gets confiscated by, say, airport security / police called by screeners even though it was properly packed and declared, and they go home, use it, and get injured- who is liable?
 
I think it depends on if you sold it to them or not. If you made a profit, then you hold a certain amount of liability because with a profit, you have implied merchantability. IANAL.

I don't sell ammo. But when friends or family want ammo, I used to just give em some of whatever I had on hand. Bad idea. I had some 44 mag ammo that I had worked up for hunting/woods defense in my Ruger RH. My FIL has an identical RH and wanted some ammo. Why not I mused? He's got the same dang gun so it'll be ok.

It wasn't. He decided to not go shooting that day and stashed the ammo for a year and wound up moving to FLA with it and when he did go shoot it, he had to pound the first six pc's of brass out of the gun. It seems that while it was ok in Colorado, being worked up at around 40-45 deg...the same rounds were a little hotter in FLA's 85-90 deg weather. No harm to the gun but made me rethink my policy of being nice with my ammo. Now if someone wants ammo, they get nothing more than starting loads, period.
 
Whoever did the confiscating assumed the risk of using the confiscated ammo. The reloader would have no liability, assuming that the reloads weren't consciously reloaded unsafely. (Can't imagine a Real World scenario where that'd be the case.) There would definitely not be any criminal charges against the reloader, unless it could be shown that the reloader knew the reloads to be unsafe and failed to warn the confiscator.
 
Doug.38PR said:
If this should happen and the man who confiscates the reloads for the above said reason then uses them.....then that man deserves to lose a few fingers.
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Deserves?
I don't think so.
 
What if someone takes the hot surplus 7.62x25 ammo for my CZ-52 and uses it in a Tokarev? The ammo is safe in my CZ, but unsafe in a Tok.
 
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