[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.
Self firing ammo?? This must be a new variety of ammo. They had better stay away at a safe distance if it is self-firing ammo. They'd be shocked to see what I have in my pickup and home.
Judging from the alarm in the original article, that would be news!
No doubt, it practically looks like 155mm HE.
“It was live, primed and active.”
I'm in the process of helping my friend renovate his kitchen.
When we pulled the old cabinets off the wall there where 12 guage shells on top of every one of the left there by the previous owner.
There were easily over forty rounds, I guess maybe we should have become alarmed and called the cops, eh?
This is inexcusable! Why hasn't London been evacuated already? The damned thing could go off just sitting there and put some kid's eye out! /sarcasm (as if a sarcasm tag is really needed)
I could pee myself laughing!
Really. I had .22 longs in my toybox as a youngster.
RUN FOR THE HILLS!
This was a .22 round! Where there is one there is thousands of others just waiting to go off...in rapid fire as fast as you can pull the trigger succession!!!
DOOOM! All DOOOMED!!!!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736038/posts
Posted last week.
there treating this like it was an IED
Is you garage open to guided tours, anytime soon?
Seriously, though, I'd like to have an armory on par with that of the Big Red 1.
Back when I was in high school, behind the seat of my truck was enough loose ammo left over from hunting season to handle a night in Bagdad.
Talk about drama queens.
Nope, I highly doubt there are many Brits who have testicles, present FR Brit company excepted however.
Should a British tour group come through the AR residence, we will need several EMT's and earplugs for the screaming going on.
As low as the US has sunk in silly PC crap, someone finding a .22 round does not make the news.
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Is the left over German ordnance from WWII a crime?
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