Unless you’re in the industry, you probably haven’t heard of OSHA’s proposed 1910.109 standard. The new standard would have effectively made it impossible to operate a gun store or indoor range of any sort.
Here are the essentials:
- The definition of “explosives” would be expanded to include “small arms ammunition, small arms ammunition primers, [and] smokeless propellant,” lumping such things in with dynamite and high explosives
- As such, any facility containing ammunition or components thereof would be subject to the rules governing high explosives
- No person would be allowed to carry ammunition or firearms in such facilities. This would also affect police departments and military installations
- No person would be allowed to smoke within 50ft of the facility
- Facilities containing “exlosives” would have to be evacuated during any “electrical storm.”