Seen all this before. Go over to Dougs Message Boards and check out the safety issues forum. I have 8 MLs, 4 sidehammer and 4 inline, and shoot all of them. I consider the inlines just as safe as the sidehammer guns. Inlines have been around since matchlock days. It is not the ignition location, it's the steel and how the gun is handled by the loader or shooter. As MLing is a form of "amunition manufacture" is is subject to lots of safety issues. Fact of it is that if the guy in the original picture was loading by volume with the correct powder instead of weight he would still be within the correct range of suggested loads! I have had my Hunter Safety Instructors certification for over 35 years and have seen MANY blown up guns. Blowing up a gun is not restricted to only inline MLs. In fact inline MLs probably make up the smallest # of guns that I have seen that were destroyed. A fool with a gun is still a fool with a gun no matter what kind of gun it is. 10 ga