Editing Handloading (section)

===United States ===
In the United States, handloading is not only legal and requires no permit, but is also quite popular.  Experts point to potential legal liabilities (depending on the jurisdiction) that the shooter may incur if using handloaded ammunition for defense, such as an implied malice on the part of the shooter, as the use of handloaded ammunition may give the impression that "regular bullets weren't deadly enough".<ref name=ayoob>{{cite journal|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_4_51/ai_n11840291 |title=Handloads are for sport and training: not defense: after a shooting, certain concerns contraindicate handloads |journal=Guns Magazine |date=April 2005 |author=Massad Ayoob |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203174700/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_4_51/ai_n11840291 |archive-date=2009-02-03 }}</ref>  Additionally, forensic reconstruction of a shooting relies on using identical ammunition from the manufacturer, where handloaded ammunition cannot be guaranteed identical to the ammunition used in the shooting, since "the defendant literally manufactured the evidence".<ref name=ayoob />  In particular, powder residue patterning is used by law enforcement to validate the distance between the firearm and the person shot using known facts from the manufacturer about powder type, content, and other factors.