Just curious, I by all means have a large cache, but I do have a few boxes of ammo in different calibers.

Obviously, if I was home when the fire started, and made the call I could let them know.

How do you make it known should the fire happen when no one is home?

I've seen the kids/dogs/cats inside sticker, but wouldn't feel comfortable with a "ammo inside" sticker.

I don't know how I feel about calling my local FD beforehand and telling them about my stash.

Any other suggestions?

A few years back I called my local FD and asked about where I could get some of those HazMat "diamond" signs. (Business Safety Supply stores/mail order sell them) The Fire Capt. response was WHY.
I explained I was a reloader and had powder, primers, loaded rounds.....yadah-yadah.

He told me there was no limit to the amount of rounds/powder I could keep as a private citizen. He also said if his crew was attempting to save a structure and rounds started cooking off, they withdraw AND LET IT BURN, while protecting the surrounding structures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ext_from=PL&index=45

The thought of fire destroying anyone's ammo supply is the thing of nightmares.

I'm a career FD Captain and a Arson Investigator. In my jurisdiction we have no say on your home.

Also being a rural area all of our house fires have guns and ammo. If a gun is cooking off rounds it does concern us. Powder normally just burns up without any problem. Shrapnel from cooking off ammo could be a problem for unprotected skin.

We do not run away because someone has guns and ammo in the fire. We go ahead and put the fire out.

Rural FD need bumper stickers on the apperatus.

"Fighting Fire under Fire"



(my Grandad worked Sedgwick County Number 1 in Wichita after he retired from Beech Aircraft for 11 years, from the day it opened in 1955 until 1966.

I saw him fight 2 fires up close.

Every kid needs a hero, to set your path straight.

Fire regs regarding how much ammo is too much ammo may vary with the municipality. I would expect that some of the more left of left areas might use the fire codes to further harass and discourage gun ownership.

Here in New York I believe that there are regs limiting the amount of ammo you may have. However, I've never heard of it ever being enforced. It does become an issue when police raid a residence on an unrelated issue and go on to discover an "arsenal" of weapons and ammo.

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It does become an issue when police raid a residence on an unrelated issue and go on to discover an "arsenal" of weapons and ammo.

And then the press reports it was a single shot 22 caliber assault rifle, with hundreds of rounds of ammo (4 or 5 boxes of 22 ammo.)

MD is a mixed up state. They limit the amount of loose powder you can own for reloading, but the amount of loaded ammo is unlimited.

A person on another forum was wondering out loud about the legality of say loading .50BMG ammo with the wrong powder, say Win231, and then breaking down the rounds when he needs powder for handgun loading. If it is legal to own .50 ammo, then why is it not legal to store powder in the casing?