So, my daughter who is married to an anti gun...

ChattanoogaPhil said:
See, I get that part. Whether the person simply has no experience with guns or is anti-gun as you portray him to be I would expect some level of unwarranted anxiety.

What I'm not quite understanding is why an experienced gun owner would advise to contact the authorities, personally consult with a retired NYS trooper for advice, consider if it's best to find a responsible gun owner to take charge of the cartridge, seek further input on the Net for disposition, and lapse into a situational awareness lecture with the kids. Where is all this coming from?
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Exactly......
 
I find live rounds of varying calibers around town all the time. I look at them when I pick em up to see what maker etc they are, then muse over the clumsy dolt for losing it. Most of what I find are shotgun shells, .223, 5.56 and 9 mm. Never any kurz though. :-(( Oh and, I just simply chuck them into the nearest can without dialing 911 and the national news outlets.
 
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First off, my retired NYS officer is a friend. Maybe the response to call local police was just a knee jerk response that I had based on "never giving it a lick of thought" before. I really never heard of disposing of a round any other way than through the muzzle of a firearm. I just wanted to know myself. At least the waste of good law enforcement resources was very short... No anxiety per se... Finding a loose round at a range would be one thing, but on a city street? Never have spent much time in cities either. Experienced gun enthusiast? Only on the very low end of the scale. Lots to learn, which is part of what I'm enjoying here. Hope that helps with the "where that's coming from" question. Subjects that we are really familiar with give us the tendency to take things for granted. As an Electrician I shake my head as to how many calls I get from folks that can't reset a tripped breaker. I have yet to charge someone for that- the first time.

Stay safe, John
 
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Adk.IBO said:
Yeah, I told my daughter that I liked the chuck it in the river idea better. Maybe the best idea would be to find a responsible gun owner to give it to?

Stay safe, John
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What if a fish consumes the round?
Some poor guy could catch a "live" fish or possible get lead poisoning by eating the fish if it doesn't explode when he cuts it open to clean and fillet.:D
 
Adk.IBO said:
...man texts me and asks what they should do with a 9mm cartridge he found while walking on a sidewalk in Pittsburgh where they live. I said I wasn't sure and told her to call the local police dept and ask them. They told them to throw it in the trash. My neighbor is NYS retired trooper and he said throw it in a body of water. What do you all think? I later sent a text to be aware of their surroundings with situational awareness and be safe on those city streets. Responsible gun ownership includes knowing where EVERY round is or goes (IMHO). Therefore until now I never gave that a lick of brain time... In my conversation with my daughter she made another point that there are law abiding gun owners (not criminals) that are not responsible gun owners, one of which could have carelessly dropped the cartridge. Again, I never gave this scenario a lick of brain time until now...

Stay safe, John
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I'm 54 yrs old.I am from Boston originally,before living in the great sportsman state of New Hampshire for ten years..I have been living in Virginia since 2007.Your daughter has a point.The good ole boys down here are almost reckless with the handling of firearms.The majority handle them as if they were a hammer or screw driver.
 
Lockport Redhawk said:
What if a fish consumes the round?
Some poor guy could catch a "live" fish or possible get lead poisoning by eating the fish if it doesn't explode when he cuts it open to clean and fillet.:D
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That's one of the main reasons cited for banning lead shot for waterfowl hunting. (not the exploding part, but the lead poisoning part). Probably a bad idea to bury it also because of the environmental lead issues. Can't really give it to anyone else because of the need to insure that you're not transferring ammunition to a prohibited person. Can't keep it or fire it out of fear that it will have been tampered with and left for you to discover. Can't throw it away out of fear that a child will find it or a trash truck will explode. Looks like three yards of concrete is your best bet . . .
 
Adk.IBO said:
Yeah, I told my daughter that I liked the chuck it in the river idea better. Maybe the best idea would be to find a responsible gun owner to give it to?

Stay safe, John
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overall, I think your making too much of this issue.
I can find a few loose rounds of ammo in any caliber I own, virtually anywhere I go.
Its not carelessness .. its by design.
No one found a loaded MP5 in a school locker room here. it's an orphaned round.
 
To those who said they would fire this found round I would say "Are You Crazzy?"

You wouldn't know if the bullet was dropped on its nose possible further seating the bullet further into the casing .. thus causing a over pressure round .. or could have been altered on purpose in some way to cause a firearm failure .. or it might have been a round reloaded bought on the underground by a gang banger with an unknown amount of powder charge .. or a number of other conditions ..

No the best advise was to throw it far into a body of water where it would never be found again or to take it to a police station and turn it in ..

I would NEVER shoot a found round of any caliber !!!
 
Don't remember where I saw it, but I once saw a documentary about chocolate manufacture. It was mentioned that they have to go through the cocoa beans carefully as they come from Africa because they often find rounds of small arms ammunition mixed in with them. They showed a bucket full of cartridges by the bean sorting area.
 
If they don"t care to throw in the trash then either soak it in oil first, or google the nearest shooting range and have them put it in the dud bucket.
 
Whitwabit said:
To those who said they would fire this found round I would say "Are You Crazzy?"

You wouldn't know if the bullet was dropped on its nose possible further seating the bullet further into the casing .. thus causing a over pressure round .. or could have been altered on purpose in some way to cause a firearm failure .. or it might have been a round reloaded bought on the underground by a gang banger with an unknown amount of powder charge .. or a number of other conditions ..

No the best advise was to throw it far into a body of water where it would never be found again or to take it to a police station and turn it in ..

I would NEVER shoot a found round of any caliber !!!
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I don't think there are "underground sources for reloaded ammo. It's not like the said gang banger can't just buy ammo at any gun store or Walmart. We're not in Khyber Pass

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I would have advised her to flush it, let it mix with the solid waste and some day it may have made a torpedo!
 
The round should be immersed in a cup of WD40 and left to soak a while. Then throw it into the trash.

The WD will ruin the powder and primer.

Then the SIL can bite on it next time he gets a papercut
 
Wyo said:
Sort of reminds me of this article from Britain some time back. Sheesh!

Couple discover 7,500 machine gun, shotgun and pistol bullets in their back garden while weeding their pond | Daily Mail Online
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sounded British before I even looked .. old military rounds dumped at a old military training area I suspect ..

those training areas were all over the British country side .. and rounds have been found before in quantity .. seems anytime anyone digs over there old munitions of some variety are found ..
 
I would've felt like I scored on that find. Better then finding change in my opinion.
 
To the OP

You did just fine. I understand what you are dealing with and this situation might open the door to the next step which is talking more about firearm safety. After that, if you are lucky, he might consider actually shooting a gun and learning more. I hope so.

Thanks to all that posted the funny stories about "bullets found!". All I can do is shake my head and laugh a lot.
 
Wyo said:
Sort of reminds me of this article from Britain some time back. Sheesh!

Couple discover 7,500 machine gun, shotgun and pistol bullets in their back garden while weeding their pond | Daily Mail Online
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Did you guys click the link to read the story? All I can say is wow, just wow... Those two are a couple of real bed wetters!

My God, can people really be that lame? No wonder that country is going down the drain, Churchill would be choking on his whiskey on that story...
 
I found a .380.....

I found a .380 cartridge in the grass outside of the police department. I figure a policeman was clearing his back up gun and it got away. I foolishly took it home not knowing that it could go off any minute. In fact it's still around here somewhere and it could STILL go off any minute. I'm just sorry he didn't drop the whole thing in the grass and leave it.
 
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