[LETHAL: The .22 calibre bullet found in Walthamstow High Street on a market day morning (D6W1001)] 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.
"The bullet has been examined at a Metropolitan Police laboratory and details about it kept for future reference."
Next, we will perform an autopsy on an alien being.
can I put it in Andy?
Holy sh*t!!!! A .22 short???? In the street?
My wife does hate it, though, when they get sucked up in the vacuum cleaner where they have rolled off the dresser after I've emptied my pockets there.
ROFL
Somebody tell me this is satire. No way is this actually news. And please tell me that he did not actually say that a .22 round could go off all my itself. Even if you dropped the round and it landed just right on the perfect pebble at the perfect angle, the bullet would hardly put an eye out.
I have .308 and .357 mag rounds rolling around in my glove box. They mysteriously, have never attacked me.
Someone should take a hammer and beat that bullet into submission, otherwise it might start flying around and hurt someone!!
Ammunition of this kind would ordinarily be used in a small handgun or pistol
what happened to squirrel rifles ?- ....a 22 short, might as well be a cb
check this out http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0034775227757a.shtml
"I wonder...if someone dumped a couple thousand of these from a 50 story buildings roof, into traffic - would any go off?"
Given that .22 are rimfire, I would venture to say yes.
is it a "cop killer"?
sounds like my house.
see #64
So? Somebody stepped on it while at the range, it got stuck in the shoe sole indentations, later got dislodged in the street - surely it is not Guy Fox conspiracy.
I used to set up .22 rimfires and shoot at the with .22s to see if they would go off.
One of my less common sensed blessed friends though a 22 out the window of a moving car.
It did indeed go off.
[I'm picturing them standing around it poking it with a stick, like if cavemen came across a toaster.]
Forget LMAO! I have tears streaming down my face. So true and yet so hillarious to think about. While they are huddling over it in awe, walk up behind them with an air filled paper bag.....POW!!!!
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