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Thanks, I know someone had mentioned this before but I could not remember the when. When I started to roll I rolled everything I shot as price and the hassle of buying. Not long after they started letting us order I stopped bothering with a few things like 9mm. Still have what I need to do it again if needed but it's so cheap to just buy it I don't bother. If I get down to the last case of 9 before price drops I will have to start again. Nice to know the stuff is there.The change occurred with the 1986 FOPA which did a lot to reign in the ATF which had been like a rabid dog off the chain since the passage of the 68 GCA. The FOPA did a lot to restore seriously curtailed gun owner rights , allowed the importation of surplus which had been almost all but shut off after 1968 and allowed gun owners to mail order ammunition and reloading components.
Prior to that time you had to go to the gun store and the dealer had to keep a log of how much ammunition he sold . I do remember it well and yes during those times it was largely cheaper to load your own ammo than it was to buy it in a lot of instances. That did not really change until FOPA was passed.
I hear a lot of people who were not alive during that time bemoan Reagan signing FOPA into law cause we lost the ability to buy new machine guns , but what most people honestly do not understand is that we gained more than we lost with the passage of FOPA and the Hughes Amendment