So you mean to tell me that every guy and gal that has a booth setup at a gun show has paid the ITAR license fee and has an FFL 06? Resellers of ammunition are not required to have an FFL 06. Only persons manufacturing ammunition for the purpose of SALE from a fixed place of business are required to apply for an FFL 06. This came from the FAQ on the ATF website.
So in this case my friend gave me lead and brass, i provided the powder and primer. How is this a sale? Now if I sold the lead he gave me for a profit I could see how that could constitute a sales transaction as having taken place but that is stretching it and really trying to grab for a thread. But there was no money excahnged, and I in no way have made a monetary gain. The only other straw you have left to grab at is the $30 license for 3 years required for the manufacturing of projectiles for sale. But again I haven't sold anything, no money has exchanged hands, and I did not profit from this transaction at all.
If you break it down I got 170 pounds of raw scrap lead. The scrap yard here pays $.30/pound for dirty scrap lead. That comes out to $51 dollars. He gave me the lead and brass and he got 1000 rounds of .45 ACP. Sportsmanswarehouse here local sells HSM (Remanufactured or reloaded ammunition) for $22/50 rounds that's $440/1000 rounds. SO ifffffffffffffffffffff I was in the business of selling ammunition I would be a horrible business man and I would be out of business faster than any other business in history. Once you look at the numbers from a business or profit standpoint I fail to see how I made a sale or a profitable one at that. Just the cast bullets alone are worth more resale than the lead he gave me. The brass as well, well acctually he was short 200 cases that I gave him so there I was out another ~$20 in .45 ACP brass. So after crunching the numbers I got $51 worth of lead, and I gave him $20 worth of brass, $25 worth of powder, $25 worth of primers, $100 worth of bullets, and 4 hours of my time for smelting, casting, reloading, @ $10/hour so another $40, $5 for other material costs, plus I delivered them 60 miles round trip at 4 gallons of gas at $4.50 a total of $18. For an overall total of $233 subtract the costs of the raw lead of $51 and that brings me to a total of -$182. What sale?