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The reality is the the storage of flammable, explosive and/or otherwise hazardous substances might well be subject to regulation under local zoning or fire codes.
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Yep. Check with city, county, state, and any other applicable governing bodies, to see what the laws and fire code limit you to.
I have never lived in a state or county that didn't set storage limits on smokeless powder, small arms primers, small arms ammunition, black powder, and/or black powder substitutes (in all types of structures and on all types of property). Some aren't bad at all. Some are a massive inconvenience (if you want to be legal, and/or keep your insurance if there's a fire).
I have lived in a couple cities that didn't have additional limitations, but, for the most part, I have lived in cities that did have rather strict fire code regs.
In one location (under city/county/state regs), for example, it was a misdemeanor to possess more than 100 primers at a time, and a
felony to possess more than 500. ("Intent to manufacture explosive devices"
)
In that same city, I could possess up to 3 lbs of black powder, but no more than 1 lb of smokeless powder. [face palm]
A couple places that I have lived had city fire code regs limiting smokeless powder to 13 lbs, primers to 1,000-3,000, and ammunition to 70-100 lbs (weight, not round count - don't know how common that may be).