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Once the land of brave knights and kings, the UK is now unmanned by the presence of a .22 round.

Bullet found in doorway

LIVE ammunition has been found lying in the doorway of a busy high street shop.

The .22 calibre short round bullet was found at the entrance of the 99p Stores in Walthamstow High Street on Wednesday morning, November 1.

Haroon Khan, who has a firearms licence and is a member of a local gun club, was alarmed to discover live ammunition in a Walthamstow doorway.

The bullet, of Swiss origin, was still in its brass casing, complete with enough gunpowder for it to fire itself.

Mr Khan said that if it had been struck hard enough or exposed to heat it could have gone off.

"This sort of thing should not be lying around. It was live, primed and active," he said. "But rather me pick it up than a little kid.

"How can you feel safe when you are finding things like this on the street?

"To get hold of one of these is not easy. You have to go through a scrutinised search, you need a licence and you have to belong to a club."

Ammunition of this kind would ordinarily be used in a small handgun or pistol, and both can be owned legally under licence.

But to leave strictly controlled goods out in the street would be enough for a firearms licence to be revoked.

The bullet has been examined at a Metropolitan Police laboratory and details about it kept for future reference.

A police spokesman said: "Recovering firearms and ammunition is a priority for the police. We take the same view of ammunition as we do of a gun.

"If it goes bang, it is still lethal."

Police are treating the unattended ammunition as a crime. Mr Khan alerted them at 10.16am, and they arrived at his shop to pick up the bullet at 11.32am.

7:00pm Thursday 9th November 2006


By David Williams

Source: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/ne...lay.var.1013959.0.bullet_found_in_doorway.php
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Good thing it was not one of them SUPER-LETHAL .380 or even *GASP* a 9mm. They'd had to have shut down the entire city!!
 
I liked this part:

"The bullet, of Swiss origin, was still in its brass casing, complete with enough gunpowder for it to fire itself."

It must be one of those magical bullets that can self-destruct and, obviously, related to that magical bullet in Dallas that could change directions in mid flight.

:rolleyes:
 
Mr Khan said that if it had been struck hard enough or exposed to heat it could have gone off.

"This sort of thing should not be lying around. It was live, primed and active," he said. "But rather me pick it up than a little kid.

"How can you feel safe when you are finding things like this on the street?
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:uhoh:
 
Great Googly Moogly! Send the bomb bot!

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It looks like their cultural wussification is complete.

Ours is only 40% done.
 
"If it goes bang, it is still lethal."
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Not quite. It amazes me how many people including those who should know better think that if you dropped ammo on a hard surface it would explode like a bomb.

I guess people don't stop and think how a firecracker works.....

-Bill
 
I could see hysterical reactions if it was an artillery shell. But a .22?

I wonder what would happen if a prankster left pictures of guns and cartridges laying around.
 
"To get hold of one of these is not easy. You have to go through a scrutinised search, you need a licence and you have to belong to a club."
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Or you could just buy something bigger from a criminal. Hell, while you're at it, get a gun from him too. Lot less hassle. Definitely safer and likely less punishment for doing so.
 
this is the best part:

The bullet has been examined at a Metropolitan Police laboratory and details about it kept for future reference.


can you see a group of scientists and investigators crowded around an examination table, prodding this .22 round? they could have saved some time and got the information they were looking for pretty immediately online. and keeping the details of their examination 'for future reference'??????

i shall now breach the security efforts of the london metropolitan police....pay attention brits....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22LR
 
And it wasn't even a .22 LR, but a .22 short. :)

Of course I remember my cousin getting worried when I pulled apart a .22 round with plyers to see the powder.
 
Mr Khan said that if it had been struck hard enough or exposed to heat it could have gone off.

"This sort of thing should not be lying around. It was live, primed and active," he said. "But rather me pick it up than a little kid.

"How can you feel safe when you are finding things like this on the street?

"To get hold of one of these is not easy. You have to go through a scrutinised search, you need a licence and you have to belong to a club."
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That poor SOB would drop dead faster than American Crack HO runs to cash her welfare check if he looked at all the rounds in my home .

None of them have cooked off yet and if I had a buck for every round I have dropped in my lifetime I could afford to buy him a working set of Gonads and pay for their installation !
 
The tone of alarmism in the article is just astonishing. All the more so because it appears to be genuine, not sarcasm.
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I totally agree...

:eek: :what:

I can't decide whether to laugh or have a cardiac arrest! It boggles my mind that a place like this actually exists. What is this world coming to? .22 short round just lying around waiting to "go off"?!?!?! The sky is falling!! :uhoh: :scrutiny:
 
it to fire itself.
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Whooooooaaaaaaa..... What incredible new technology they must be working on over there..... I mean, like WOW, man! Can the bullet even decide who it's gonna kill, or does it just pick some random target, or does it just go off and go in some random direction? Those Brits must have some awsome science guys over there...:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
This is what you get when you have the uninformed as a mouth piece.

I've hit a round hard before, as long as you don't touch the primer you are fine.

I've had a round fall into a camp fire before (ejected from a bolt action rifle, .308 IIRC) and it did go off, with a pop not a bang. I think the bullet went about two inches and the case just split open.

I have rounds rolling around in the trunk of my car, hitting my tools and getting stuck into places you wouldn't believe, I don't have any holes in my car.

The worse trouble that I had with a lose round was when I stepped on it and it rolled out from under my foot, I did almost fall that that could have killed me I guess. It was my fault, I had spilt a box of 20 7.62 IIRC.

It's sad that a once great nation, which almost ruled the world, would become such a nation of cowards.
 
My e-mail to the author

I recently read your "article" I must say your level of alarmism is astonishing. Was this intended to be sarcastic? Or were you really that unnvered by a .22 Short. I would also like to point out that the bullet gave gone off itself. Dropping the ammunition would not have made it go off either.

http://www.geocities.com/mjloundy/
 
Even if you could manage to get it to go off, outside of a chamber to contain and direct the explosion into a properly sized barrel, it would simply fizzle, and the bullet would pop out with very little force. A cork would fly out of a Champaign bottle faster.
 
I'm beginning to believe that we have less cultural and fundamental differences with the Islamofascist nations that we do with certain others.....


The West is infested with enough parasites and cancerous tumors that we need no foreign enemies. Just look at that Animal Extremism thread posted recently.
 
Nevermind the gangsters and other such types running around. It's that single loose rimfire round in the doorway you gotta worry about.
 
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