From 9News - Ammunition hampers firefighters at Monument blaze

[BushMasterBoy]

Black powder in a gun safe will explode like a 500 lb bomb dropped from a F-15.

[82ndShooter]

I believe that Mythbusters already has done a segment on cooking off ammo.

[jerrymrc]

Black powder in a gun safe will explode like a 500 lb bomb dropped from a F-15.

Link please.

[303sig1911]

Man I hope it wasn't .22, that stuff is worth it's weight in gold right now.

[Bailey Guns]

Ammo is nothing to worry about unless its housed in a barrel.

I wish I had a barrel full of ammo.

[BushMasterBoy]

Black powder is classified as a explosive. Sometimes it is even used in mining. It was almost exclusively used to mine before dynamite was invented. Some people I know purposely store black powder in their gun safe. They put a label on the gunsafe stating that the safe contains black powder and will explode if a cutting torch is used. The stuff will explode even if just struck by sparks from a grinder. Black powder can also be detonated by static electricity. Like reading about black powder? see link below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder


http://hunting.about.com/od/blackpow...lackpowder.htm

[DavieD55]

9 news Just trying to spoon feed more propaganda to the uninformed for the agenda.

[R&S]

Now I know why ammo is so hard to get

[patrick0685]

I believe that Mythbusters already has done a segment on cooking off ammo.

they did...it is the cases that have more of a chance in hurting you then to bullet

[KevDen2005]

All I took from this is that I can't find ammo anywhere and someone's house is burning and destroying a bunch of it...dammit!