27 CFR Part 447
Importation of Arms, Ammunition and Implements of War
27 CFR Part 478
Commerce in Firearms and Ammunition
27 CFR Part 479
Machine Guns, Destructive Devices, and Certain Other Firearms
27 CFR Part 555
Commerce in Explosives
27 CFR Part 646
Contraband Cigarettes
27 CFR Part 771
Rules of Practice in Explosive License and Permit Proceedings
(b) The Director may authorize alternate construction for explosives storage magazines when it is shown that the alternate magazine construction is substantially equivalent to the standards of safety and security contained in this subpart. Any alternate explosive magazine construction approved by the Director prior to August 9, 1982, will continue as approved unless notified in writing by the Director. Any person intending to use alternate magazine construction shall submit a letter application ..
A type 4 magazine is a building, igloo or “Army-type structure”, tunnel, dugout, box, trailer, or a semitrailer or other mobile magazine.
A type 3 magazine is a “day-box” or other portable magazine. It must be fire-resistant, weather-resistant, and theft-resistant. A type 3 magazine is to be constructed of not less than number 12-gauge (.1046 inches) steel, lined with at least either 1/2-inch plywood or 1/2-inch Masonite-type hardboard. Doors must overlap sides by at least one inch. Hinges and hasps are to be attached by welding, riveting or bolting (nuts on inside). One steel padlock (which need not be protected by a steel hood) ..
A type 2 magazine is a box, trailer, semitrailer, or other mobile facility.
A type 1 magazine is a permanent structure: a building, an igloo or “Army-type structure”, a tunnel, or a dugout. It is to be bullet-resistant, fire-resistant, weather-resistant, theft-resistant, and ventilated.
Barricaded. The effective screening of a magazine containing explosive materials from another magazine, a building, a railway, or a highway, either by a natural barricade or by an artificial barricade. To be properly barricaded, a straight line from the top of any sidewall of the magazine containing explosive materials to the eave line of any other magazine or building, or to a point 12 feet above the center of a railway or highway, will pass through the natural or artificial barricade.
Magazines are to be kept clean, dry, and free of grit, paper, empty packages and containers, and rubbish. Floors are to be regularly swept. Brooms and other utensils used in the cleaning and maintenance of magazines must have no spark-producing metal parts, and may be kept in magazines. Floors stained by leakage from explosive materials are to be cleaned according to instructions of the explosives manufacturer. When any explosive material has deteriorated it is to be destroyed in accordance with..
(2) When two or more storage magazines are located on the same property, each magazine must comply with the minimum distances specified from inhabited buildings, railways, and highways, and, in addition, they should be separated from each other by not less than the distances shown for “Separation of Magazines,” except that the quantity of explosives contained in cap magazines shall govern in regard to the spacing of said cap magazines from magazines containing other explosives. If any two or mor..
(a) Explosive materials in excess of 300,000 pounds or detonators in excess of 20 million are not to be stored in one magazine unless approved by the Director.
|Pounds|Over|Not over|From inhabited building distance (feet)|From public railroad and highway distance (feet)|From above ground magazine (feet)| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |0|1,000|75|75|50| |1,000|5,000|115|115|75| |5,000|10,000|150|150|100| |10,000|20,000|190|190|125| |20,000|30,000|215|215|145| |30,000|40,000|235|235|155| |40,000|50,000|250|250|165| |50,000|60,000|260|260|175| |60,000|70,000|270|270|185| |70,000|80,000|280|280|190| |80,000|90,000|295|295|195| |90,000|100,000|300|300|200| |100..
|Net weight of fireworks [^1](Net weight is the weight of all pyrotechnic compositions, and explosive materials and fuse only.) (pounds)|Display fireworks [^2](The distances in this column apply only with natural or artificial barricades. If such barricades are not used, the distances must be doubled.) (feet)|Consumer fireworks [^3](While consumer fireworks or articles pyrotechnic in a finished state are not subject to regulation, explosive materials used to manufacture or assemble such firework..
In taking the inventory required by §§ 555.122, 555.123, 555.124, and 555.125, a licensee or permittee shall enter the inventory in a record of daily summary transactions to be kept at each magazine of an approved storage facility; however, these records may be kept at one central location on the business premises if separate records of daily transactions are kept for each magazine. Not later than the close of the next business day, each licensee and permittee shall record by manufacturer's name..
A type 5 magazine is a building, igloo or “Army-type structure”, tunnel, dugout, bin, box, trailer, or a semitrailer or other mobile facility.
(a) Explosive materials within a magazine are not to be placed directly against interior walls and must be stored so as not to interfere with ventilation. To prevent contact of stored explosive materials with walls, a nonsparking lattice work or other nonsparking material may be used.
(b) Electric lighting used in any explosives storage magazine must meet the standards prescribed by the “National Electrical Code,” (National Fire Protection Association, NFPA 70-81), for the conditions present in the magazine at any time. All electrical switches are to be located outside of the magazine and also meet the standards prescribed by the National Electrical Code.
(a) In any magazine;
(a) General.
|Net weight of firework [^1](Net weight is the weight of all pyrotechnic compositions, and explosive materials and fuse only.) (pounds)|Distance between magazine and inhabited building, passenger railway, or public highway [^3](For fireworks storage magazines in use prior to March 7, 1990, the distances in this table may be halved if properly barricaded between the magazine and potential receptor sites \(55 FR 3717\).)[^4](This table does not apply to the storage of bulk salutes. Use table at § ..
Large capacity ammunition feeding device. A magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device for a firearm manufactured after September 13, 1994, that has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The term does not include an attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only with, .22 caliber rimfire ammunition, or a fixed device for a manually operated firearm, or a fixed device for a..
(18) Magazine bodies