Is there a "weenie dome" available for entire clubs? Might save some costs on individual hats, and cut down on thermals. The non weenies will sneak off before the dome is complete!
OK, that wasn't what you wanted. Look at 27 CFR 555.210 (the link I provided) which details the construction requirements for type 4 outdoor magazines. It starts:
"A type 4 magazine is a building, igloo or ``Army-type structure'', tunnel, dugout, box, trailer, or a semitrailer or other mobile magazine."
So semi trailers are, almost by definition, type 4 magazines. The wheels must be removed (or imobilized) but if you are using shipping containers, that isn't a problem at all.
But if all this distributer stores are items exempt under 27 CFR 555.141 (i.e. Class C fireworks) then they are exempt from all ATF storage requirements.
I bought one of those magazines from Magnum. (...or IS that a type 4?) I had no place to put it. I was going to go for the attached garage variance, but I couldn't get a letter in time from the local fire marshal.
Since when did getting something in writing stop the BATFE from changing their minds? ;-)
I think the indoor mag inside the shed is the easiest way to go. 50 lbs is a good start. If I keep 300 lbs of motors less than 62.5 grams in my sock drawer, it will allow me to keep more larger motors in the mag. ;-)
I have the orange book and read Part K Storage several times. What I was thinking of doing was building a standard storage shed and line it with steel. Then, cover the steel with another layer of wood. That way, it will look normal from the outside. But, it looks like I may just go with the indoor mag inside the shed.
My BATFE agent was "into" this part when I first got my LEUP years ago. When I showed him an I284 reload kit and it had no "marks of identification" (ie lot #), he said to write something down if I ever find it.
He then made me put the motor in my friends registered mag within 24hrs or he would confiscate it.
I don't believe the wheels have to be removed; it just has to be secured so that Bubba can't back up to it, hook right up, and head out. A lock of some sort which secures the trailer from being hooked up is sufficient.
If you are planning on sharing the space, I'd seriously check your local regs and insurance situation. My local FPD said that as long as I was storing stuff for personal use, they had no jurisdiction, but the minute I stored anything else, I was illegal.
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L >>> To reply, there's no internet on Mars (yet)!
I know at least one guy here who bolted a big Greenlee box to a concrete foundation, and that is his "building". His indoor magazine goes inside the Greenlee box. Others have put up small sheds to house their indoor magazine.
There used to be a quarry in the Panamint Valley that was using one of these for storing blasting materials. They carved a trench into the rock hillside and set the container into the trench, and covered the top with rock. Basically all that was showing was the end with the doors sticking out of the base of the hill.
I saw the remains of it not long after somebody broke in and set off all the dynamite, back in 1993. Pretty freaking impressive. It looked like a lot of the stuff detonated after getting blown out of the container, as there were numerous craters all around the front of it. One of the big, heavy steel doors was at least a half mile away.
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