House Fire With Ammo Storage.

[arakboss]

If ammo starts cooking off, don't expect Fire Dept. to save your place.

Flames pour from Northeast Portland home with 'significant amount of ammunition'

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[G1GRANDEUR]

understandable.

 

[eem228]

Ammo poses little to no risk to firefighters. Lots of videos on YouTube if you want to watch them waste a bunch of ammo in their testing.

 

[AME Firearms]

So what is a "safe" amount of ammo to store in your home?

 

[FATAL125]

So what is a "safe" amount of ammo to store in your home?

 

[arakboss]

So what is a "safe" amount of ammo to store in your home?

I checked with my local expert and he said you only need to store two shells in your home.

 

[FATAL125]

I checked with my local expert and he said you only need to store two shells in your home.


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Even with an "air gun" his trigger discipline sucks...

 

[The Heretic]

I never expected firefighters to risk their lives fighting a fire where there is a lot of ammo or other extremely flammable stuff. Which is why I have a large placard on the man door of my shop where almost all of my ammo is, along with propane canisters and a 55 gallon drum of gasoline.



And this is definitely and issue where I live; we came pretty close to having a forest fire destroy our neighborhood in 2020. We were lucky that the wind was from the east and stayed from the east. Had the prevailing wind been from the southwest at any time, it would have come towards my house.

As it was, we had to evacuate - the fire was less than a mile from my property.




Nor was this the first time they stopped a fire from being a lot worse than it could have been; there was an unattended slash fire that got out of control a couple miles to the east that could have been really bad because it was windy that day and again the wind was from the east.

You can bet I will vote for the TVFR levy (https://www.tvfr.com/101/Local-Option-Levy ) this year and be quite glad to - all of my neighbors will too. To us, they are heroes.

 

[kmk1012]

I wonder how insurance payout would be effected if the fire dept chose to step down?

 

[arakboss]

I wonder how insurance payout would be effected if the fire dept chose to step down?

I was wondering the same thing but I am not going to ask our insurance company.

 

[Jay Walk]

Ammoz iz badz

 

[msgriff]

I don't think that there are any Federal regulations regarding the amount of ammo stored in a residence, but there are regulations for smokeless powder storage. If you did have a house fire, and they somehow determined that you exceeded or improperly stored smokeless powder in your home, It would probably be grounds to deny any insurance claim, and possibly civil or criminal charges, depending on how much you exceeded the limits and if anyone was killed or injured as a result.
Of course, current or future leftist/Democrat anti-gun State laws would be a different story concerning ammo storage, but I haven't seen anything in those regarding amount or pertaining to fire safety.

 

[whiskeybill]

Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute training film developed with and for fire departments. Apparently it's not widely distributed.

View: https://youtu.be/3SlOXowwC4c?si=tczKEHgy1MfJODx5

 

[Certaindeaf]

I heard that if they hear an acorn hit the roof they'll shut the hoses down because water might get hurt. pretty sure

 

[Jay Walk]

Cool video, that's good to know.

 

[Angie]

I never expected firefighters to risk their lives fighting a fire where there is a lot of ammo or other extremely flammable stuff. Which is why I have a large placard on the man door of my shop where almost all of my ammo is, along with propane canisters and a 55 gallon drum of gasoline.

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And this is definitely and issue where I live; we came pretty close to having a forest fire destroy our neighborhood in 2020. We were lucky that the wind was from the east and stayed from the east. Had the prevailing wind been from the southwest at any time, it would have come towards my house.

As it was, we had to evacuate - the fire was less than a mile from my property.

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Nor was this the first time they stopped a fire from being a lot worse than it could have been; there was an unattended slash fire that got out of control a couple miles to the east that could have been really bad because it was windy that day and again the wind was from the east.

You can bet I will vote for the TVFR levy (https://www.tvfr.com/101/Local-Option-Levy ) this year and be quite glad to - all of my neighbors will too. To us, they are heroes.

The flammable sign is a good idea.

 

[Bacchus]

I think ammo is dangerous in a fire if it's chambered in a firearm. When it cooks off, I think it will accelerate down the barrel just as if you pulled the trigger and punctured the primer. When it's not chambered, it won't have the expanding gases focused behind it to push and accelerate it and a barrel to point it as it picks up velocity.

I haven't tried that to confirm.

 

[Springer08]

Yeah, I did consider other instances of "security" for keeping ammo locked up as well as the guns.

 

[arakboss]

I think ammo is dangerous in a fire if it's chambered in a firearm. When it cooks off, I think it will accelerate down the barrel just as if you pulled the trigger and punctured the primer. When it's not chambered, it won't have the expanding gases focused behind it to push and accelerate it and a barrel to point it as it picks up velocity.

I haven't tried that to confirm.

So when primers are hard to come by just grab a bic.

 

[Bacchus]

So when primers are hard to come by just grab a bic.

Sure, if you can get the bad guys to hold still long enough while you try to set them on fire!