Ain't "Obammy's" idea. Been on the books a long, long time.

It breaks down like this:

You need some ammo rolled, you pay your buddy to reload it for you. Seems all well and good...

But YOU didn't commit the federal offense, YOUR BUDDY DID. Now I have some buddies that I'd take a bullet for, if it came to that, but that's not the situation here. In this case, YOU'D walk free, maybe get some ammo confiscated, and YOUR BUDDY would be brought up on federal charges. It's a violation of FFL status, so he might as well be illegally trafficking firearms across state lines, or illegally manufacturing firearms or class III weapons in that case. The manufacturer of the ammo is the one that assumes the liability. He'll be the one that pays the fines or does the time, and he'll be the one that can't ever own a firearm again.

Sure, I'd play with my own SKS to make it slam fire and rattle off a 30rnd mag in 3sec - as you said, who's going to know? But I wouldn't be willing to commit the same crime for a buddy that would be held harmless.

It's simple enough, you buy the supplies, provide it to the reloader, and whatever level of "compensation" you decide upon needs to be bartered, at best.

I've been working that game for over 10yrs. Been through the books by the letter since I didn't want to lose my FFL, lose my guns, or get put in the clink. You can't reload for profit without an ammo manufacturers FFL (which I did not have at the time).