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Bullet found in doorway!!
Guardian Series UK (East London-Essex) ^ | 11/9/06 | David Williams

Posted on 11/14/2006 1:14:26 PM PST by kiriath_jearim

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.

[LETHAL: The .22 calibre bullet found in Walthamstow High Street on a market day morning (D6W1001)]

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.

continued... 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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
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To: kiriath_jearim

Mark for later read: something says this one is going to be hilarious...


141 posted on 11/14/2006 2:40:14 PM PST by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) Gun owners have illustrated rights are individual and can be protected by individuals.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

142 posted on 11/14/2006 2:46:26 PM PST by Mat_Helm
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To: kiriath_jearim

I cannot tell a lie. I flew to London andplaced that .22 bullet in the doorway.
I did it and I'm proud.


143 posted on 11/14/2006 2:48:07 PM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: Hydroshock

"LuCkeee!!!"

144 posted on 11/14/2006 2:49:36 PM PST by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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To: lepton
if someone dumped a couple thousand of these from a 50 story buildings roof, into traffic - would any go off?

Maybe, there was a nutjob a year behind me in high school. He'd walk around with a pocket full of .22s and periodically throw one against the sidewalk. If he got the angle just right, the shell would hit on the rim and "pop". He was pretty good at it and got about half to go off. We generally let him walk downtown by himself.

This kid had been tossed out of Cook County IL by a Youth Judge who gave him the choice of reform school or moving to northern Wisconsin and living with relatives after his third conviction for car theft. He was around 15 and the only sociopath I have ever met personally. He was pretty much an OK kid but we learned never to say "I bet you wouldn't..." when he was around. Thanks Judge, we needed that!

Regards,
GtG

PS I learned a lot about ignition systems from him.

145 posted on 11/14/2006 2:51:15 PM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
...complete with enough gunpowder for it to fire itself.

And aim itself and ever'thing!

146 posted on 11/14/2006 2:52:02 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Cindy
The question that interests me is this:

Who dropped that bullet?

There was a thread up earlier concerning the illegal (Duh...) conversion of "starting pistols" into functioning firearms in the U.K. IIRC, most starter guns are cheap revolver designs that take .22 blank cartridges. The revolving cylinder is "shorter" front-to-back than that of a *real* .22 revolver - ostensibly to prevent use of live .22 ammo. The fact that this just so happens to be one of the shortest variants of .22 ammunition makes me wonder if the two articles are connected.

147 posted on 11/14/2006 2:56:09 PM PST by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: All

Got to be careful about where I leave my .22 WMD's from now on.
That's A rim fire .22,a shark stick or nail won't do.
Maybe it has a exploding bullet like they took out of Reagen.


148 posted on 11/14/2006 2:57:56 PM PST by hubno (hub)
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To: Charles Martel

ON THE NET...


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1738559/posts


"Gangs turn blank-firing pistols into guns"
Manchester Evening News (UK) ^ | 11/14/06 | John Scheerhout

Posted on 11/14/2006 12:54:54 PM PST by kiriath_jearim

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Blank-firing pistols are being converted into deadly guns by gangsters in Manchester.

Now police have travelled to Germany to try to persuade the company which produces the weapons to change the way they make them.

Officers from Manchester's armed crime unit visited the Cuno Melcher factory in Solingen, which produces legal blank- firing guns, after finding hundreds of the converted weapons in raids in the city."


149 posted on 11/14/2006 3:03:53 PM PST by Cindy
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To: paul51

I thought that.


150 posted on 11/14/2006 3:04:09 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: kiriath_jearim
Hello, Everyone:

Will this be the next episode on hit TV show, CSI: East London?

151 posted on 11/14/2006 3:05:42 PM PST by drsbb
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To: kiriath_jearim

I worked for several years as a professional carpet cleaner. The number of live rounds I found in various customers carpets over the years would make a shortish day at the range. Mostly .22 shorts, but other .22's a few .38's and .357's. One .45 ACP.

the empty brass I found would have kept a reloader busy for a few nights.


152 posted on 11/14/2006 3:08:07 PM PST by magslinger (When Law enforcement enforce idiotic Laws of Bad Politicians there are no good guys.-Phantom Patriot)
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To: kiriath_jearim
There was a fire near hear that burned the place to the ground. The local FD was amazed, and impressed with the guys ammo storage... 500 rounds in a metal ammo box. Light weight metal. Every round was ignited, and every bullet of .223 was still in their casings. The casings, were all blown out the side.

The reason I tell this story? The likelihood of a round shooting it's bullet with it's casing not housed in some type of chamber is very, VERY slim... Guy is makin somethin out of nothin IMHO...

153 posted on 11/14/2006 3:15:28 PM PST by sit-rep ( http://trulineint.com/latestposts.asp)
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To: kiriath_jearim
.22? Heck, Americans EAT bigger bullets than that....


154 posted on 11/14/2006 3:19:39 PM PST by beezdotcom
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To: Larry Lucido; Squantos
2 or 3 posts up...My previous...

Agree? Dis-agree?? What say you??

155 posted on 11/14/2006 3:21:24 PM PST by sit-rep ( http://trulineint.com/latestposts.asp)
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To: El Gato

I threw some 9mm into the woodstove just to see. There was some mild popping, way short of what even modest firecrackers should do on a damp day.


156 posted on 11/14/2006 3:22:04 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: sit-rep; Squantos; kiriath_jearim

I'm no ballistics expert but I do recall enough high school physics to agree with you.


157 posted on 11/14/2006 3:24:41 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: kiriath_jearim

Can you imagine an American newspaper writing a story about a single .22 short found in a doorway? Ivan, your folks are a bit daft at times, I think you'll have to agree.


158 posted on 11/14/2006 3:28:10 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: kiriath_jearim
Same article, same title post 4 days ago.

Just why do we care that a 22 shell was fond ANYWHERE???

159 posted on 11/14/2006 3:29:44 PM PST by TWfromTEXAS (We are at war - Man up or Shut up.)
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To: vamoose
Elsewhere in the store there was a set of stairs that "moved themselves".

Worse, there was a furnace that ignited itself.

160 posted on 11/14/2006 3:30:19 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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