You explicitly asked about (US) *Federal* regulations? I replied with an excerpt...

lazide · on Jan 3, 2025

We were talking about criminal penalties.

defrost · on Jan 3, 2025

We?

Who's 'we' kemosabe?

This isn't a Yevgeny Zamyatin novel and you're not the One State.

motorest · on Jan 3, 2025

> We were talking about criminal penalties.

No. We were talking about regulation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42572449

lazide · on Jan 3, 2025

Ah, well then you do realize that OSHA regulation also doesn’t apply to personal, non-commercial use?

And the DOT regulation doesn’t apply to things made and used on site? (Aka not transported)

defrost · on Jan 3, 2025

> If TNT was legal to own I'd be buying it for my farm.

( upthread @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42567255 )

US OSHA regulations do apply to agricultural operations.

https://www.safeagsystems.com/blog/osh-act-and-agriculture

lazide · on Jan 3, 2025

“An amendment in 1977 saw the OSHA restrict the use of funds to prescribe, issue, administer or enforce agricultural regulations for farming employers of 10 or less people.”

Arguably, even subsistence farming is a commercial endeavor (per the Supreme Court) and requires an ATF license anyway. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn]