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Somebody finds a big bag of bullets in Dorchester trash can
By adamg on Tue, 12/22/2015 - 4:40pm
Boston Police report somebody walked into District C-11 last night with all these bullets:
The citizen stated he found the bag in a trash barrel near 17 Centervale Park and immediately brought them to the police station. Officers received the ammunition and submitted the 226 live rounds into evidence.
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Rather see them in the trash then smell
cordite.
Cordite hasn't been used by
Cordite hasn't been used by anyone in ammo since the 1940s.
Looks like some gang members missed picking up a drop.
Looks like reloads, lots of
Looks like reloads, lots of wadcutter ammo. Some found grandpas old target ammo and dumped it.
and they ain't .22cal either
Those look like 357 magnum or .38 Super rounds right? Case is too long for 9mm. Also looks like some empty brass in the bag as well.
Nice catch and nice find. Glad that stuff is off the street
Thank you anonymous citizen!
Thank you anonymous citizen! I hope one day you will find this post and understand that you made a difference today. Pretty sure everyone here understands the value of taking these bullets off the street.
I've been to District C-11 police station on multiple occasions to report criminal activity, and understand how not caring folks there are at the front desk. No follow up.
Why is it even legal
to sell ammo in bulk?
Bullets should only come individually wrapped in the same blister packs they put cold medicine in.
Yes
In Mass it's already illegal to carry even spent ammunition in public without a gun license. Leaving ammo in public (ie not locked up or under the positive control of a licensed individual) is also illegal if I remember correctly.
I'm sure that if only there were a *law* on the books that made it even more illegal, then certainly the wholesome and nonthreatening businessperson making this transaction would have stopped in his tracks for fear of stepping over the line.
Indeed, it is clear to me upon further reflection that this drop must not have taken place, because if it had, the perpetrator would have been in violation of Massachusetts's (close-to) strictest-in-the-nation gun laws. And laws always prevent criminals from doing bad things.
The existing MA and Fed laws
The existing MA and Fed laws are never adequately enforced against criminals which is why they keep repeat offending.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/12/22/man-who-loaned-handgun-bosto...
The guy that illegally lent the gun to the marathon terrorists got off with a slap on the wrist for interstate arms trafficking. This is despite being an accessory to the terror spree and knowing lending the gun to the older brother with the stated intention of killing rival pot dealers.
And then there's this doozy of a woman:
"ATF Lets Straw-Purchasing Violent Criminal Walk In WV"
http://bearingarms.com/dot-need-more-gun-laws-enforce-existing/
http://www.stoughtonpolice.org/SPDLogs/SPDLog04.01.15.pdf
http://patch.com/massachusetts/braintree/police-log-canton-woman-arreste...
http://watertownpd.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Arrest-Log-09.15.14-09...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/01/10/police-seek-pu...
Two things there
The guy at the top of your rant served 18 months and was a cooperating witness in the Collier murder case.
The lady at the bottom, in the case cited in the end, stabbed someone, so our gun laws must have done something, right?
18 months is the bare minimum
18 months is the bare minimum sentence which is a joke for the severity of the crime when coupled with their other criminal behavior.
Mistook Evidence Bag For Packaging
Looking at the picture again, it seems I mistook what must be a plastic evidence bag for some sort of factory-sealed bullets-in-a-bag packaging.
I think my point about the blister packs still stands though. Tylenol overdoses were almost halved in Britain by simply outlawing bulk pill bottles and requiring individual pills to be packaged in harder to open blister packs. The same should be done with bullets. If someone really wants to gather up that many of them, they should have to spend hours cutting each one out of a hard plastic shell by hand.
I dunno
Somehow the phrase 'Moon Island Mooncusser' comes to mind.
Trash bag
What's shown in the photo is probably an evidence bag, but the linked BPD report says the bullets were found in a "trash bag".
Your blister pack idea is shortsighted
A large number of gun owners spend hours MAKING THEIR OWN AMMUNITION (capitalized to make that part stand out, not yell). How in any sense of reality do you think putting an individual cartridge (the bullet is the part that comes out of the barrel when the gun is fired) into a single blister pack is going to stop acts of violence?
Go take a gun safety class. It will give you far better ideas for how to tackle our gun problem.
Yes and no
I've spent those hours making ammo and, well, it takes hours.
Blister packs probably would open up an entirely new job description at shooting ranges, though: ammosmurfer.
Empty shell casings?
"In Mass it's already illegal to carry even spent ammunition in public without a gun license."
Didn't know that. Who do we thank for that bit of wisdom? How about a shotgun shell? (Just kidding. I think.)
Yep
or at least that's what the gun nuts teaching the MA-mandatory safety and marksmanship class I took about a year back said. The 1998 law is written vaguely in many places, and the catch-all term "ammunition parts" or something like that is used.
Maybe they didn't really think that carefully when they wrote it, but as written it meant that it would have been possible to bring gun charges against me if I walked out of that class with my empty shell casings for souvenirs.
Hmm
So did the guy who brought the bullets in to the police station get cited or arrested for carrying ammunition without a gun license? Maybe he had a license?
Turning in evidence of a
Turning in evidence of a crime usually exempts the person turning in the evidence from prosecution for illegal possession in US common law. It's why no one is arrested in route to buybacks or turning over bags of drugs they've found.
In the UK a person would be punished for their good deed if they took evidence to a police station rather than reporting the location of the evidence.
Thanks
Good to know.
Tough for America? Sure.
Tough for America? Sure. Tough for any other developed nation, all of which have less gun deaths than America? No. Gun owners in America are treated like delicate little saints, despite the fact that they kill thousands of people per year.
Well
They are a constitutionally protected class.
Not exactly
Read the full amendment - something about a "well regulated militia" and all that.
I'm still waiting for my approval to have a rocket launcher. It is a gun, right?
If you subscribe to the idea
that the 'militia' bit means you get to have whatever an ordinary infrantryman would get issued, then no, a rocket launcher does not count as a gun.
If, however, you're simply mocking the idea that the second amendment means what it says at face value, then yes: a rocket launcher, hell, a whole Patriot missile battery, counts as a gun.
And do keep us informed about how your nuclear program is coming along. Remember to wash your hands with cold, and not warm, water after handling that radiation shielding. I hear lead poisoning can be nasty.