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

[KaceCoyote]

I work at Home Depot, and depending upon the time of the year have either a 7.62x39mm round or a 12 guage hull ziptied onto one of the strings of my apron. Folks "in the know" think its a riot, and soccer moms dont seem to notice.

Management doesnt care, considering 2 of my 3 managers CCW at work and my department head CCWs off the clock.

 

[M249MachineGun]

I wonder what would happen if you dropped a few .50 BMG cases in an airport parking lot. I'm not sure what would happen, really.

 

[evan price]

What would happen if you left a used Stinger missile hull in the parking lot?

 

[ILS27R]

Naaah. If it were a cartidge I load for, I would have "assimilated it into the collective".

That's funny!

Handloading: Resistance is futile.

 

[Diamondback6]

For a while after I got my CCW, and still occasionally, I was deliberately--without launch platform--carrying a live Federal 230-grain .45ACP Hydra-Shok, carefully padded in a little tissue and secured inside an old eyeglass case, as a reminder of the responsibilities I have accepted with my intent to carry a weapon. (Now if I could only find an engraver who'll work on a live round... if it's possible to engrave lettering into a case without risk of setting it off or unacceptably weakening it, that is...)

 

[Don't Tread On Me]

Some of the baggy pants I wear are too long, so I roll them up a couple turns. When I shoot at the range, brass gets in there.

I've littered many places with brass not even knowing it.


If people freak out, then that is their problem. It is just a sad reflection of how our nation has forgotten its roots and its culture. I'd be laughing inside if I saw people freaking out over a piece of spent brass, because while would be freaking over the mere presence of spent brass, I'd be concealing a firearm right next to them.


Ignorance is bliss.

 

[retiredat44]

not worth thinking about unless they came from A10 Warthog..

 

[ILS27R]

I wonder what would happen if you dropped a few .50 BMG cases in an airport parking lot. I'm not sure what would happen, really.

They would probably try to outlaw .50 caliber rifles.

I think California has already successfully done so.

 

[bumm]

All this reminds me of a small event that happened back in the late 50's or early 60's. I'd gone into the bank with a friend of mine who wanted to deposit the change he'd collected on his paper route. The lady poured the contents of his change bag into the hopper on the counting machine, and then reached in all of a sudden and pulled out a .38 pistol bullet. Back then, nobody panicked, and it probably wouldn't have dropped into the machine enough to jam it anyway. Funny though!
Marty

 

[Crosshair]

Diamondback6

if it's possible to engrave lettering into a case without risk of setting it off or unacceptably weakening it, that is...)

I always wanted to engrave the bullets on my carry ammo with, "To whom it may Concern". My neighbor is a jewler so that might be easy to arrange.

 

[Hardtarget]

In the early 80's I worked part time at a service station. One evening I picked up a .45 round. Never thought a thing about it. I've got various bits and pieces stuck in all kinds of places. At work I've got five different pistol calibers in a desk drawer. Every so often a conversation will turn to ammo differences and out they come for comparison...you know...educational purposes. No body freaks.
Mark.

 

[CNYCacher]

related story

Last deer season, I was looking for something in my truck for a friend and came up with a couple 12 guage rifled slug shells, unfired. I handed them to my friend and said "Here, hold these". He looked a little surprised/scared, but we have known each other forever and he trusts me, so he hung onto them. I finally found whatever it was I was looking for, and went to take the shells back. I told him he could keep one if he wanted. He's never been into guns so I figured maybe some baby steps.
"Has this been fired?"
"No."
"How do you know?"
"Because it isn't empty."
"How can you tell?"
"Well, you see that big grey thing sitting just inside the one end?"
"Yeah"
"That's the slug"
"Slug?"
"The bullet" (gotta speak their language)
"So, this hasn't been fired?"
"If it had, the slug would be embedded in a tree somewhere with deer blood on it, not inside the shell in your hand."
"So you could put this in a gun right now and fire it off?"
"Yes"
"So could it go off in my pocket?"
"Nope"
"What if it hit my keys just right?"
"Nope"
"Okay, cool! I'm just gonna carry it around"
He puts it in his coat pocket and as far as I know, it's still there to this day!
"Okay, don't forget it when you get on a plane."