> An official in the Office of Price Administration....

Google can find incorrect information in the blink of an eye, if one searches specifically for an phrase expressing the incorrect information itself.

Pencil-necked paper-pushers like the "Office of Price Administration" were/are unlikely to even know how to fire a weapon, let alone know what's actually used in ammunition manufacturing.

The link below is to a far more authoritative document from 1915 that more thoroughly addresses the subject. Even in 1915, paraffin was well known as less sticky, and therefore more useful for "bullets" than beeswax.

Yes, there were MANY military applications of beeswax, but the common misconceptions (a) that beeswax was intended to somehow "lubricate" the gun barrel and (b) that actual beeswax was used in common post WWI ammunition persist because beekeepers continue to repeat misinformation.

Pure beeswax was a poor idea even in the days of paper cartridges, but until paraffin, it was the best substance available for the task.

[ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gd1STXQGpeBsK4QnBb7dJ3n3a8xVeI2a/view?usp=sharing ]

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