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http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070814/photos_ts_wl_afp/140e13087c8865bec0c22bcf01aa597b
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Something is just not right here.

An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. At least 175 people were slaughtered on Tuesday and more than 200 wounded when four suicide truck bombs targeted people from an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq, officials said.(AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)
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I guess their rifles jammed and the soldiers resorted to throwing cartridges. :D

I hope this is not considered political. :)
 
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It has happened a lot closer to home. A resident whose new house encroached on a long established shooting range wanted to shut them down so he displayed "bullets" that had hit his house. It would have been a better story if he had taken the projectiles out of the cartridges.
 
This is absolutely hilarious. You know, I think the "average" non-gun toting American has probably watched enough TV to know that spent cartridge cases don't have bullets in them. What this really shows is just how dumb the average journalist (and editor) must be.
 
Even if they had pulled the bullets from the cartridges, displaying pristine un-marked bullets would be still be suspect.
 
I think somewhere an armourer has a lot of explaining to do.... If your bore is so worn the entire cartridge is popping out the muzzle (with nary a scratch!), someone might be slacking!
 
What would make this picture even funnier is if they had a picture of the 'bullets' actually 'hitting' the house. I can see it now...some guys in a jeep, one of them hanging out of the passenger window, dipping into a bag, and throwing cartridges around like its holiday candy.

Thanks for the morning laugh!!
 
Reminds me of a lumberjack joke. Pierre the lumberjack finds out that if he buys a chain saw, he can cut more timber. After a month in the woods, he brings it back to the dealer and complains, "I can't cut any more lumber with this than I could with my buck saw!" So, the dealer says, "Lets go out back and test it." The dealer yanks on the cord, it starts, and Pierre is taken aback. Startled, he says, "Hey! Whats'a'that noise?!?!?"

Kind'a like those cartridges, ain't it? As "elderly" as this woman looks, and with all the "violence" over there, you'd think she'd have known the difference. Seems like she'd have known there should have been some sort of noise that accompanied the "bullets".

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Jim Watson, I believe you. The same thing happened to my gun club about a year before I joined.

It was chartered by the NRA in 1945 in its current location in a rural township. About 5-6 years ago, a local developer/real estate bigwig from the neighboring city decided to build a house about 800 yards past the berm--on the highest hill on his property.

They went in with bulldozers and raised the berm, lengthened one end of it to change the angle of fire, and built up the rifle shooters' stations to control where people shoot from and to make sure people are shooting down into the base of the berm. Shooting from anywhere but the defined stations is prohibited. "Rapid fire" as in bump firing or firing as fast as you can is prohibited. Quick draw from a holster is prohibited. Lots of things are prohibited.

The guy STILL wants us shut down, but the sheriff's deputies stopped listening to him after he called 911 one day and handed them two loaded .38 Spl cartridges he said hit the side of the house.
 
Maybe its me but those rounds don't show any annealing of the brass, I have shot many thousands of rounds of GI ball ammo and none looked that shinny, all had discoloring around the neck & shoulder from the annealing process, these look like factory ammo.
 
The guy STILL wants us shut down, but the sheriff's deputies stopped listening to him after he called 911 one day and handed them two loaded .38 Spl cartridges he said hit the side of the house.
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What bothers me is people like this don't seem to get charged with fileing false police reports.....
 
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The guy STILL wants us shut down, but the sheriff's deputies stopped listening to him after he called 911 one day and handed them two loaded .38 Spl cartridges he said hit the side of the house.
What bothers me is people like this don't seem to get charged with fileing false police reports.....
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Exactly right!!!, These morons are diverting valuable police resources away from real crimes.
 
What I find so ridiculous about this is that there are some folks out there that will believe what they see. All because they don't understand. It is just physically impossible for such to happen. (Which is why I made this post.)
 
So THATS where all the good 5.56 went! The old bat is hoarding it!

I guess it's too much to ask that journalists have even the most elementary knowledge of the subject on which they report.
 
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