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.
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"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."