Found a 9mm shell at work. Everyone flipped out.

[Hacker15E]

Thanks to this thread, I will be dropping some used 9mm brass in my local Best Buy this weekend just for kicks.

 

[slow944]

Not me I'm going to stop by the range and pick up a bunch of brass and scatter it around the BB just up the street. Wonder what the local news stations will have to say about all that different brass.

 

[Pilot]

Sheeple. I love it.

 

[Creeping Incrementalism]

Don't forget to check the ceilings for small glasss domes when you do this.

 

[Mannlicher]

and the sheep keep bleating.........

 

[mr_dove]

I figured i'd just carry some in my pocket and accidentally drop them as I pulled something else out of my pocket. They might get me for littering if I dropped them on purpose.

 

[Malone LaVeigh]

I found a 9mm unfired round in my carry-on bag I just recently flew cross country with. Apparently escaped detection by them as easily as it did by me. I think that round must have made at least two trips by now.

 

[CypherNinja]

I've got a pair of jeans with a hole in the right pocket.

I sincerely doubt that the resolution on those security cameras is high enough to spot a casing dropping out of someone's pant leg.

 

[vynx]

I laughed out loud when I read the first post.

By the end I was thinking, sheeple ! When has it been against the law to have empty brass around? Sheaple calling 911, calling security! Damn, the inmates are running the asylum!

 

[MountainPeak]

I too, find it troubling that you may be working with someone that is exposing themselves to the 9mm round. Have you thought about putting on a seminar, pointing out the limitations of this caliber? Your co-workers will thank you!

 

[CajunBass]

Years ago, I used to smoke a pipe. This was before the anti-smoking nazi's kicked the smokers in the plant out into the storm, so we could smoke in meetings and such.

I had a piece of 30/06 brass I had fired, then resized the cartridge, leaving the primer intact, then I had seated a bullet into the case, and used it for a pipe tamper.

I pulled my pipe kit out during a meeting one day, loaded my pipe, then set my stuff on the table in front of me. My area supervisor, looked at the tamper, picked it up, turned it over, saw the dimpled primer, and put it back with a grin.

 

[Otherguy Overby]

vynx:
By the end I was thinking, sheeple ! When has it been against the law to have empty brass around? Sheaple calling 911, calling security! Damn, the inmates are running the asylum!

Seems most all the anti-gun hysteria is based on lack of knowledge and willful ignorance. Of course there's that vast left wing conspiracy, too...

 

[mordechaianiliewicz]

+1 citizen

 

[akodo]

i too work at best buy, and loonies abound, not jsut related to firearms.

Where I work, once a month we get a few truckloads of mechandise that customers returned to the store. We have different catagories of what it can be to be resold, or sent back to the vendor for a refund, etc etc. Some stuff must come in pristine box, other stuff, as long as the main part is there, no box or accessories are needed for us to get a refund from the manufacturer.

Anyways, about a month after the anthrax scare, we got this TV back with all this white powder on it. To me it looked like sheetrock powder, but to another it looked like 'anthrax' so he called 911.

 

[imas]

My wife has some boots with grooves that seem to pick up dozens of 22 casings laying on the ground at the range. Last time she went to the range we were finding 22 casings on the ground for weeks. I'm sure she's more than a we behind at various stores.

 

[Slinger]

FUNNY STUFF!

Rolling Rock all over my keyboard!

Hey, just for snicks, leave a trail of brass around your local BB. Drop them up and down the aisles leading to the restroom where the amature detectives can find the toilet bowl filled with a couple of handfulls of brass. Let them try to figure that out!

 

[XLMiguel]

Gotta start somewhere -

I convinced that if they ever find something like that, they'd die of a brain aneurysm .

Well, that's one way to thin the herd, eh?

Hey, it's a start -

 

[Heavy Barrel]

I*'ve been carrying a loaded 17HMR and a 22 LR around with my pocket change for about 3wks.When I get my change out many have seen them.No one ever said a word.Maybe I 'll just drop them somewhere,

 

[Parker Dean]

Whatever you do, don't leave a half dozen .38 Special cases on the floor like someone just dumped his empties and reloaded. . . if you must, make sure you wipe your prints

LMAO!

Just watching the reaction to something like that would be priceless. Too bad it'd waste a cops time on a prank.

The other thing is that if someone who knew firearms said something about the fired brass being harmless, the others, especially the L.P. guy, would fight tooth and nail to keep saying it was dangerous. No amount of arguing would change their minds.

 

[mike_o8]

almost off-topic...sorry

About finding "things" in your luggage:

This was pre 9/11. I have a buddy who worked for a certain company. There was an individual there who was quiting and going to work for a different company in a different state. The individual was not well liked by many and was known as a loud-mouth jerk. Before he left someone snagged his briefcase and put a thin piece of lead in the shape of a handgun in one of the pockets. They always wondered how he fared as he went through security at the airport.

Now back to our regullary (sp) program.

Mike

 

[sctman800]

A couple weeks ago I stopped for some groceries after a trip to the range. When I dug in my pocket for the $.06 to keep from breaking another dollar I had a half dozen unfired rounds of .45apc in my hand with the change. I have known the checker for years, so she just said "just money, bullets don't count. Jim.

 

[50 Freak]

TSA/DHS really can get my knickers in a twist. I'm sure your wife would have endangered the lives of everyone on the plane with the single .223 round.

Don't make fun of the TSA, they're just doing their jobs. Last time I flew out of the country. My 3 month old baby got pulled for secondary screening. We put her down next to the guy in a full leg cast and crutches. Apparently a 3month old baby and cripple are the pretty dangerous.:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Getting back on subject.....

Note to self....after shooting tomorrow...collect brass....stop by Best Buy for some fun....

 

[dillonuser]

The top of my desk at work has at least 200-300 fired .357 cartridges in a clear bag and some loaded unboxed .45 acp also visible. Over 500+ people in the building,I've never heard a word....Oh,I don't work at BB.

On another subject: I am going to laugh all day on this one,

Here's to Glock, producing toilets and firearms from the same material since Die Hard 2!!

 

[OCJ]

Was the LP guy called becuase fired brass routinely steals merchandise at your store?

 

[shark40sw]

After work one night I had a manager send one of the staff to come find me as they had something in the office they needed me to see but no one would say what it was. I get there and here's 3 managers all debateing if the 9mm round they had found in the coat check (this was a large high end nightclub) was either a warning from someone we had problems with or something that had fallen out of a customer's coat. I took one look at it and said "oh yeah, that's mine." (hand loaded lead tc 147 grain) and put it back into my pocket before wandering off to get something to eat. Best thing is, no one ever asked me why I had it (coat check moved my bag and it had fallen out ) or how I could tell.
Did get an excellent staff review the next week though and a raise.