Originally Posted by
NSB
I think there’s something missing from this story. About twenty years ago I was shooting Team Challenge Matches that were sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and one of their reps attended almost all the matches. We spent a lot of time talking to him for a few years and he was a great resource for data and statistics. He once told us that they deliberately attempted to get a load of primers to blow up to see what would happen. Like tossing rimfire ammo into a burn barrel, they just “popped” off at a rapid rate but did not explode. I suspect that the truck driver didn’t die in an explosion, but perhaps burned to death in a fire inside the plant. More info is needed here.