Anything we buy and sell is checked at source before arrival to our stores and checked again upon dispatch to a customer. All ordnance in our inventory which has passed the safety checks carries our “Safe Ordnance Certified” labels.
Each sub-type of ordnance that we handle has its own documentation showing schematics for the component parts and identifying were each explosive element is contained within the item. Only when each part has been checked and clear, do we accept an item into our inventory.
No matter where you buy your ordnance from, always check it first and don’t take anyone’s word for it being safe.[/QUOTE]
With the exception of your last sentence, your post seems a little naive. This subject has been discussed at length previously in a number of posts - the need for a certification standard, etc, but never to anyone's satisfaction. It boils down to a couple of points. First, who are you, and what does your "certification" mean to me? (spoken in general, don't take it too personally) Standards and qualifications in training and experience vary, country to country, service to service, military to civilian, person to person. We are an international community and finding a single standard is not going to happen. Offering "certification" as per your last sentence, whether from you or anyone else means nothing to me, and offers a false sense of security to anyone that does accept it - i.e. if I accept your certification, why not accept his? If I shouldn't accept his, why bother giving me yours?
Your procedures for purchasing and selling are commendable on the surface, but again perhaps a bit naive. If you buy and sell only the items that you have a reference for, then you have a pretty limited collection. One of the biggest draws of this forum is that you can request assistance in identification. The number of items that remain unidentified despite the community's best efforts is in the hundreds, probably thousands. The lack of a document does not make it less collectable, desirable or inert, it just means that different procedures need to be applied in determining if it is safe for you to collect and manage. However offering procedures that may limit commercial liability does not necessarily pass over to the best procedures for the collecting world, and I would hesitate to endorse them before it places limitations that as a group or individuals we are not prepared to accept.
Spotter's post and your last sentence put it most clearly - take precautions, let the buyer beware and notify appropriate authorities whenever something is in question. But lets keep away from the language of "certification" until it actually means something that we can all agree on.
