Did anyone catch Revolution?

[weswood]

Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer

Right because a lever-press and one of the literally billions of empty cartridge casings that should be laying around ankle deep covering the entire globe are completely fucking impossible to acquire and utilize.

Note I'm not cursing at you nor getting mad at you, it's just...there's some stuff that defies common sense. I'm not a "gun guy" nor an anti-gun guy (I own a .38 5 shot revolver), I don't go to gun shows or stores, etc. But back in the 90s I knew more people who reloaded their own ammo than didn't, of the people I knew who owned guns. Let's go over that again: more people who reloaded their own than did not.

This is...this is like Jericho overcoming its power problems not with windmills but by putting everyone in town on a huge treadmill made out of every scrap of fabric in town, sewn together with sinew from every horse they could find and slaughter.

To quote the great Harrison Ford in the even greater Blade Runner : "I was quit when I came in here. I'm twice as quit now."

In my opinion, and it's exactly that, just an opinion, it's not the reloading of spent brass that's the problem, it's the propellent & ignition that may be the problem. I am a semi-gun guy, I know the basics of reloading even if I've never done it and when I was younger I was a black powder enthusiest, my 1st rifle was a muzzle loader. I could probably come up with black powder but fulminate of mercury for caps is out of the question. Ditto smokeless powder or nitrocellulose. I doubt the average civilian could either.