Incident

[Patrick Chadwick]

The curse about these half-baked stories, is that they are then "fully baked" by people who, having an axe to grind, interpret them in the way that suits their agenda and - hey presto - another urban myth is born that endless sober appraisals will never be able to kill off.

All who use and contribute to these forums should be aware that anything to do with gun safety should be taken seriously, as there are enough "un-well"-wishers about who seize on anything that can be used as "ammunition" to forward the argument that gun collectors and users are dangerous nutcases whose activities should be banned.

In this connection, a couple of weeks ago I read in an online newspaper article that a deceased "gun nut" was revealed in the UK to have been hoarding all sorts of things that were presumed to be illegal, with masses of ammo to suit. Amongst the photos produced in the article were a couple of steel bins full of EMPTY cases. which, of course, are no longer live ammunition, but scrap brass.

Here is a link to another report on the same subject.

UK’s largest stash of illegal weapons found in parish councillor’s home – video | UK news | The Guardian

Notice the EMPTY cartridge cases and a bin full of inert projectiles shown as pseudo-evidence.
Neither of which would "cause an enormous explosion in the event of a fire" - as claimed by a police spokesman.
But anything that can be twisted into a negative interpretation is grist to the anti-gun lobbyist's mill.

No photos of actual live ammo. Why not? Was there any?
It makes one wonder - how many of those weapons were actually capable of firing?