It might be of interest that the State of Washington has ordained that a fintlock weapon that has a main powder charge in the breach with a ball seated on top of the powder and has not been purposely primed is not loaded. Locally we have had some very spirited discussions regarding the stupidity of the state idiot that came up with that definition. BTW a caplock is also classified as unloaded if in the same condition and no cap is on the nipple.