Reloading club in OC

[Ktea]

Found somewhere

[BIGOX]

Well Brian at Reload OC said he was starting classes again. Unsure if the OC chapter is doing anything like this anymore. https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/...light=Reloadoc

[roc_my_tims]

Ahh the good old days I started this reloading journey in a class at a store then with my reloading mentor big bronco many moons ago

[Capybara]

Had years of great times with Big Bronco, and all of the other amazing instructors who helped us with the VC Reloading Club. The CG Reloading Clubs pretty much had to shut down thanks for the CADOJ, the new ammo laws and the ATF insinuating that we would have to become FFL06s in order to keep teaching reloading to students by having them reload their own ammo from components we supplied. Stupid, Unconstitutional rules and regs but what else is new in Ca.? All of us who were running and instructing the reloading clubs were doing it for fun and to teach newbs how to reload, hopefully for a Johnny Appleseed effect of them teaching their friends, etc. The powers that be hate that so they managed to shut it down. None of us wanted to become FFL06s and Certified Ammo Vendors just to teach reloading.

We even looked into teaching with fake smokeless powder substitute so that would be legal but then students wouldn't be able to shoot their loads from class, the powder substitute wouldn't meter the exact same way, so the end result might even be dangerous if the student then tried to translate the exact same load data at home on their own. In reloading, we learn from trial and error with our loads at the range and seeing what works and what doesn't. We decided that it wasn't worth the trouble.

Even if I moved to free state, I don't think I would start a reloading club again because I don't want to become an FFL06 and that's what the ATF wanted.