Hello all,

I got to chatting with a buddy who has some NFA full auto weapons, and we were chatting about shooting reloaded ammo through them. He is adamant about not shooting reloads through his full auto in case something happens. He only shoots factory and doesn’t want to risk damaging his receivers (the registered part) of his weapons. Does anyone out here shoot reloads through NFA class 3 weapons? If so, do you worry about damaging parts of your weapons and turning them into tomato stakes?

—mk25

Full auto or semi-auto, I can see similar concerns with each. As to reloads, one would have to start with who the reloader was?

With full auto, proper resizing is a biggie, then likely the load itself. That could be powder type, burn rate, charge, & the bullet.

A little like how one should use proper loads for an M1 Garand, factory or reloads.

He’s a totally competent reloader with hundreds of thousands (millions?) of rounds loaddd without issue. He has top quality gear and uses factory info/powders/bullets. Much like me, he loads down for pistols when appropriate. I just wonder why, when there’s a hungry mouth to feed, he won’t use the cheapest source of quality ammo. But it’s his choice. I doubt he’d ever have a leg to stand on if one of his nfa items blew up with factory ammo and he brought suit for a destroyed weapon.

Many folks that own and shoot legal NFA full auto guns have soooooo much money tied up in them that they won't scrimp a few bucks on reloads and risk damaging the receiver .It just isn't that smart of a move.

I have been hand loading for more than four decades now.

My select fire weapons have had many 10s of thousands of my hand loads through them



When firing my UZI with the suppressor attached I use my hand loads exclusively. I actually have a 165 grain projectile and it is very very quiet



Now I would never trust gun show reloads in my select fire weapons, but I wouldn't trust them in any of my handguns either

I shoot reloads through mine. I am worth a lot more than they are. If my loads are not safe enough for them, they are certainly not safe enough for me.

That said, I know a lot of people that do not reload and for some of them, thats probably a good idea.

my mp5 is a sbr not full auto but I shoot reloads thru it all the time, never an issue.

I would never trust anything I didn't reload myself.

A friend of a friend (my former real estate agent) has an M2 and he reloads for it. He’s filthy rich, but also reloads for his sanity, as he says. But 50cal ammo is expensive and I understand why he reloads for that. But he just burns off a case of factory 9mm in his other guns (MP5, STEN)

I shoot my reloads in my M11/9. I would trust my rifle reloads if I had a full-auto rifle or belt-fed. I'd trust my reloads over 1945 factory 8mm surplus LOL