What you have just proved is that any prosecuting attorney worth his salt is going to be able to use the ammo issue to get a conviction weather it's factory or hand loaded ammo.
Self defense against bad guys is a lot like self defense against Grizzly attacks. In the case of Grizzlies you had better have teeth and claw marks to justify self defense. In the case of bad guys you had better have bullet holes in you to justify self defense. Otherwise one is just a mean son-of-b!tch who likes to kill people with the best factory or hand loaded ammo one can get.
There I think I have it pretty well summed up.
I tend to agree, in principle, with what you said. You've refuted the urban legend that handloads expose you to legal jeopardy nicely. Your ammo matters not; it's the other circumstances of the shoot that determine your righteous, or lack thereof...
