Taking a piece of lead and brass to school

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This is a hypothetical situation. If i took some pistol bullets that i found at the range into my highschool, the bullet, not the cartridge, what do you think would happen? Im pretty sure i would be suspended if not expelled. My school is liberal, just as every other one in the United States.
 
When I was young (mid 90s) I took stuff like that to school. Of course, that was before all the zero tolerance bull came about. I'd second SoCalShooter's opinion that you would be suspended/expelled. I doubt that you could be arrested, however, IANAL.
 
Yeah; it doesn't matter if it's fair or not; don't jeopardize your future for no reason.

Strat, what's "RKBA"?
 
I once played a concert with a guitar strap that had .223 brass stitched on that looked like an ammo belt. I got a complement from my art teacher for my creativity. I would think that as long as there is no powder or primer and the brass and lead are not affixed in such a way as to look like a live round I would think there is nothing they can do. All you have is a hunk of lead and a brass cylinder.
 
Why would you even bother to do that? Do not do that.
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Did you not see "This is a hypothetical situation" It was the first thing in the damn thread. I never said i would do this.
 
As an academic, I will tell you NO. Do NOT bring it to school. Even if they don't do anything to you (you will probably be suspended), you will be known as, "the guy who brought bullets to school". You will probably also be put onto a list of students who have potential to do something crazy. Let's say somehow you end up mixed up in something suspicious, this will count against you. I know, really stupid for bringing in chunks of metal. Hell, I wouldn't even bring PICTURES of firearms to school unless they are related to a report that you are doing.

Do not ruin your life just to show people a couple chunks of metal.
 
Last fall I took my, 9 year old at the time, nephew to the rage to shoot his 22. Well being a kid he was looking at all the brass laying around and when we went to the targets he found some spent bullets. Well with out me seeing it he must have put some of the empty brass (no bullets) in his coat pocket. When he went to school the next day the brass was found or displayed to friends, I am not sure which but I really heard it from his dad about the school calling and flipping out about it. Luckily my nephew didn’t get in any trouble because his father explained what must have happened, but they made it very clear to him that he had his warning. This is in a rural area with deer hunting being pretty big, so much so that the first two days of riffle there is no school because in the past there was hardly any one, especially boys, over 12 in school. Go figure.
 
back in the early 1980's when I was in HS, in physics lab, the teacher brought a couple of Ruger MKIs to class and we fired them into packed newspapers to calculate velocity... This was in Bay Area CA. Things sure changed.

Oh yeah, this was inside the classroom, we didn't even have to go outside.
 
Okay people. I want to make this as clear as possible. I will NOT take these into school. I also never said i would. So people stop telling me not to.
 
Don't take the chance, don't do it.

Even if you manage to get away with it, which I don't think will happen, it's not worth the trouble.
 
Wow, I think this is the first time I've seen a THR thread where everyone agrees on something.
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Yeah.... It's just a shame that we're agreeing on a behavior that's outright retarded ( getting in trouble for bringing a couple of pieces of firearms-related metal to school ).

I still remember my 7th grade science teacher keeping his deer rifle in the supply closet in his class room. Nobody though anything of it then, but if he tried that now, he'd be sitting behind bars wondering what happened.

I also remember one kid giving a report or presentation in 8th grade English class on military munitions... he brought a bunch of dummy rockets, mortar and artillery rounds, and set up a display. ( His dad worked for some company that made the things )

I seem to recall he got an "A" on his presentation, not the suspension and jail time he would get these days...


J.C.
 
Okay people. I want to make this as clear as possible. I will NOT take these into school. I also never said i would. So people stop telling me not to.
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So what is the point of the thread? Are you planning on planting them on the school bully? :neener:

Wow, I think this is the first time I've seen a THR thread where everyone agrees on something.
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Just to be different...

If you have a reason that you might want to take those to school, i.e. for show and tell or something, have your parents ask for permission. I know... fat chance of that working.
 
Depends upon the context.

On a display board showing the different components for a science class with ballistics graphs? Possibly nothing.

Same setup on a board showing their theater use for a history class? Probably nothing.

Stuffed in your pocket to show your pals? Anything from nothing to suspension to expulsion to being charged under 0-tolerance and causing your parents to spend most of your college fund for you to get back into school so you could graduate a year after your buddies and then have to go to a school they couldn't afford or send you to a lesser school they could.
 
So what is the point of the thread? Are you planning on planting them on the school bully?
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I wanted to see what you people think would happen and if any other circumstances where it would be able to occur without punishment. I do have bullets, but it may not have been a good idea to use myself as an example.
 
My grandson accidently took a 12 gauge loaded shell to preschool in the pocket of his coat (he was "helping" dad hunt the day before). It fell out of his pocket and I guess the school just about evacuated the building and called the bomb squad out. :rolleyes:

He didn't get in any trouble though, after my son explained the situation. This was at a semi-rural school.
 
cannonball888 quoted:
You might get away with it if they were historical artifacts, otherwise no.
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My son brought musket balls to school, musket balls! They were confiscated. I dug them up years ago with a metal detector. I got them back. That scenario doesn't pass the common sense test by a long shot.
 
As may have been said, it's been done, and the results you predicted were the results.
 
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