Why do some hate reloads?

[East_TN_Patriot]

  Yet the second facet of his disdain was totally without merit.  "If you shoot a bad guy, even in self defense, with reloaded ammunition,"  he warned us, "you are going to jail."  I'm not a lawyer, nor did I spend last night at a Holiday Inn Express, but I do know that reloading in itself is not against the law.  Besides, anybody I hit with one of my anemic reloads should thank me that I didn't use one of the high-dollar boutique rounds that the manufacturer guarantees will kill and field dress him at the same time.

I have heard this argument many many times. I first heard it back in the anti-gun 1990s. The argument was that an anti-gun prosecutor would argue that factory ammo wasn't "good enough" for you and you had to make your own extra-deadly ammunition, which is proof you wanted to kill someone. A similar argument could be used against you in a civil suit. I don't recall any specific cases where this argument was used successfully, but I'm virtually certain even Massad Ayoob discussed it. As a result, I don't take any chances by carrying reloads for defensive carry. I even stick with Gold Dot so I can argue that was the duty ammo my former police department issued, thus I wasn't seeking some exotic super-deadly ammo to fuel my bloodlust or some similar idiotic claim a lawyer could use against me, a a sensationalist media would report as factual, and a jury of people ignorant about firearms would believe.