Court Ruling - Why are we happy

Ok I've just read the HPR/Tripoli report and don't follow many threads here, .....but

I am not sure why we are so happy about the PAD ruling when it obviously clear that we LOST the main and biggest point for getting regulatory relief......our propellant was ruled to deflagrate and so falls under ATF's authority. Does this mean the reloadable market is dead and only single use or assembled motors get relief.

Koen

Not sure I agree with you... it appears to me that the complaint was crafted as it was in order that _any_ of its subsections, if granted, would in itself provide valuable relief - i.e. - propellant actuated devices are exempt whatever BATF may "list as explosives"; and it's been ruled that that exemption does apply to us. (Similarly, if only the count regarding "listing as explosive" had been granted, that would have provided relief even if the count regarding "propellant actuated devices" had been the one to be denied.)

-dave w

If that count were refiled under a different theory as I have privately suggested, we could still prevail on that one as well.

Jerry

Or the users could simply assert their rights. Proactively, persistently, politely.

A fight is not the only available method of correction.

Sometimes the word, "please", actually works. Or polite education.

You would never know it from rmr (or NAR/TRA).

Jerry

Who says we're happy?

Been muddling it over myself and I suppose the only loose end with APCP that couldn't get reconciled was the munition quality finely ground stuff. Sigh... To kick the dead horse, wish those around when the original verbiage came out tended to it back then rather than leaving it for us to live with...

Earlier, we had a thread and FWIW, several (including myself) are interpretting that reloads and single use motors are exempt. Reloadable components are impotent until assembled. The nonsense of restacking of reload grains into larger forms falls apart when the l/d ratio exceeds about 17 'ish (or there abouts) and suggestions of recasting grains into a larger diameter collapses.

Regards, Andy

Do you have an ATF permit? Have you tried it first hand?

I am relaying personal experience, not hypothetical theory.

Successful experioence.

Jerry

I hope not, regardless of what Jerry's doing or how tempting it may be to see him put in his place. The ATF is extremely toxic and unstable with a bad habit of not distinguishing between friend and foe. They're like a truckload of hornets' nests AND a "dirty bomb" combined. They're already on the warpath against rocketry, they've been dealt an embarrassing loss in court, and they're probably spoiling for a case that could be used to cement their regulatory position against us or harm us politically.

Look at nailguns and nailgun cartridges. Nailguns are Propellent Actuated Industrial Tools, and fall under the same exemption as Propellent Actuated Devices. The nailgun is the tool, but the "loads" (cartridges) are also exempt. What would be the point of exempting nailguns if you still needed a LEUP to buy the cartridges?

I believe this applies to propellent loads for PADs too. Both cartridges and rocket motor reloads are commercially manufactured items designed specifically to be loaded into the exempt device. Both use a casing which contains the propellent -- the only difference is that one casing is brass, with a removable endcap; and the other is paper or phenolic with is bonded to the propellent. The propellent is actually _easier_ to extract from a cartridge than from a reload.

Intended use.

You officially SUCK.

Besides.

Fred lied.

Fred?

Dang Jerry, you just keep _begging_ people to sic the Feds on you. Even a toddler has sense enough to avoid something hot after getting burned once. Maybe if you have any money left after paying off that huge DOT fine, you could buy a clue.

Just speculation during private conversation among friends. No actual official information. Like Ray, I don't wish the ATF on anyone, including you. However, to believe the feds don't share information, is ludicrous.

Fred

Think not....you don't buy the black powder separate and then assemble the nail gun cartridges...they are already fully assembled PADs. reloads are just slug of loose APCP and as such are not PADs. Yes you can disassemble a cartridge....but .....they are sold and marketed as fully functional PADs.....reload kits are not

No they aren't. They are kits designed specifically for use in reloads in some cases, and piles ofcomponents designed specifically for use in reloads, in other examples.

Just APCP would be not shaped specifically for use in particular cases with particular nozzles.

Jerry

You are an enemy to rocketeers nationwide.

Thanks to my "friends and collegues" they have more information stored on me than ANYONE.

Jerry

IMO and experience, stored information is only as good as it's verifiable factual content. I am often alerted by speculation, but decide based on fact. This may supprise you, but after our conversation last night, I started thinking, has ATF ever busted a hobby rocketeer or motor manufacture, for possession or manufacture violation of ATF regulations?. Off the top of my head and to my knowledge, the answer is NO; a speculation fact for now. We will see, with some research, over the next couple of days, if speculation can be supported by stored fact.

Fred

Fred

Koen,

No offense intended to you but don't be another brick in the wall with the others. What you point out is academically correct and operationally meaningless.

Playing cards, notably the diamonds and hearts, can be decomposed and processed to yield nitro-glycerine. Morning glory seeds can be processed to yield lysergic acid diethylamide. The bible can be selectively (mis)quoted and (mis)interpreted as a document of hate and deceit. While a reload grain may contain APCP, it is impotent in the partially assembled form and as others remind us, the manufacturers of said hobby rocket fuel grains made sure that in their partially assembled form, any long haired exercise to construct a menacing product would fall into the category of nice to know but why bother...

I've a hunch the BATFE agent (no doubt obedient to their superiors) in the field has an eye for the common sense of things. I wonder if they're as bewildered with some of their policymakers as we are.

Take care,

Andy

p.s. One thing we did discuss a couple threads back that you may have missed that this whole process was new to alot of us "nerds" and that we really should be ready next time around.

Yes jerry, you are an enemy of rocketeers nationwide.

Nope, that was ALL your doing.