Have You Or Do You Ever Find Fired Bullets In Public?

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Today at work me and a friend who is a co-worker and a gun junkie :evil: were in one of the storage buildings of my families buisness(it has its own address so its big and mostly metal(roof and sides) )and we came across a fired bullet(the actual lead inside was intact). Looked like a .380 . The tip was at a 45 fdegree angle flat were it had gone through the aluminum roof and hit the concrete floor. Did I mention it is in the HOOD! HEHE! So while snickering in disgust at our finding(which isnt the first time we have found similar stuff on the property just outside) we started to look atr all the holes in the roof and the sides of the building and there were probably 40+ holes. A few minutes later I looked below a pretty big hole in the roof and found the outside of what had to be a .45ACP and beside it all the lead that was inside. After looking to see if we could find more inside and we didnt we deceided to go on the roof which is probably 40 foot or so. There were so many fired bullets up there it was ridiculous I mean 50-100 random sized ones. It really had me pissed and not at the fact that peoplw had been destroying my families property but the fact that these a**holes would shoot that many bullets in the air over whatever time length instead of shooting straight ahead. I mean hell your gonna make the noise of a gunshot at least shoot at a tree or some sh*t. All behind our buildings is a residential neighborhood and a year or so ago a kid was hit by a falling bullet two streets back. It really just had me irritated. Sorry for the long post anyone have any similar stories. Oh I live in a medium sozed city.
 
I work in Cleveland, Ohio.

The roof of our factory always gets a new collection of bullets on it. Every few weeks the maintenance guys go up for one reason or another and come down with new acquisitions. Usually .22 or handgun.
 
i work at an airport in a very seedy area of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles...the Tower gets shot at from time to time...there are more than a few holes in it...seems like the thugs enjoy shooting at the rotating beacon as well...


they were cleaning out and landscaping an area in the parking lot a few weeks ago...after they pulled out the shrubs, there was a multitude of 30 year old beer cans, soda bottles and stuff like that...i dug around and found a spent 12ga shotgun shell...
 
TrafficMan said:
i work at an airport in a very seedy area of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles...the Tower gets shot at from time to time...there are more than a few holes in it...seems like the thugs enjoy shooting at the rotating beacon as well...


they were cleaning out and landscaping an area in the parking lot a few weeks ago...after they pulled out the shrubs, there was a multitude of 30 year old beer cans, soda bottles and stuff like that...i dug around and found a spent 12ga shotgun shell...
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Hey at least they were aiming at something. I guess mine are more easily amused!
 
I've never found any bullets but I watched the cops investigate the scene of a shooting one time and they recovered all four bullets from a .45 ACP that had been fired down the street. I still don't know how they did that.
 
Once, a spent .355 Silvertip in the warehouse I was working in. Told a cop, they said it was part of an investigation they were doing, and collected it. They seemed a little suspicious when I knew what size/make it was...
Other than that, out here where open carry is legal, with no AWB, nope, very very rarely...
 
i work at an airport in a very seedy area of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles...the Tower gets shot at from time to time...there are more than a few holes in it...seems like the thugs enjoy shooting at the rotating beacon as well...
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I work at the airport.

I've always been tempted to blast the rotating beacon off it's red and white tower with my M1A! Not that I would ever do something so reckless and destructive...but there is something about it that just screams TARGET!!
 
While vacuuming out my pool a few years back, I noticed a shiny object at the bottom. I grabbed my net and retrieved it. It was a FMJ 9mm bullet. No idea where it came from, just glad I wasn't swimming at the time!
 
Its not just urban yahoos shooting into the air. I was stationed at Minot AFB, North Dakota. Its about twelve miles north of the small town of Minot. One day I was policing cigarette butts around the motor pool in preparation for a visit from the wing commander. In addition to used marlboros in the parking lot I also found 2 45 caliber slugs and a ~9mm bullet. FOD walks on the flight line invariably turned up 1 or 2 rifle bullets. These couldn't have been from the SP's practice range as that is on the opposite end of the base facing north.
 
January 3rd of this year I found a .40 bullet Flat Point JHP in my driveway. Completely intact, and with very prominent rifling markings. Most probably a New Year's eve bullet from the idiots who shoot up in the air.
 
I nearly died laughing one year when I heard the LA Police Chief describing the dangers of discharging firearms into the air. His claim was that the projectiles fall back to earth at a faster rate than they are fired from the gun.

Obviously the Chief knows nothing about physics, terminal ballistics or terminal velocities.

Not condoning shooting into the air at all...
 
I've found hundred's of them "down home." Of course "down home" was Hanover County, Virginia and the bullets were Civil War Minnie Balls, pistol balls, grapeshot, artillery shells, and so on. (Along with almost as may shotgun shells, 22 cartridge cases, buckshot pellets, boot eyelets, beer cans, horseshoes, mule shoes, pieces of barbed wire........) Kinda neat to be a kid with a metal detector back then.
 
In the 1970's I worked for a large manufacturing plant on the border of Watts in L.A. One of my responsibilities was doing a roof inspection of the facility every six months. This was a huge plant - the entire facility covered around 60 acres.

I had a cup on my desk that I used to toss all the spent bullets that I found on the roof into. That cup had quite an assortment in it. Should have kept it.
 
I've often wondered with all those nitwits in the mideast firing those AK's into the air for any protest or celabration just how many people have been dinged by bullets returning to earth?
 
I used to work for an insurance company in Columbus, OH. The building was in a "deteriorating neighborhood." Smokers were required to smoke outside and on Monday mornings we used to regularly find spent bullets. They were mostly 9mm.
 
I found a 9mm FMJ on the sidewalk in Brooklyn, NY when I lived there. Always wondered what the story was behind it. The tip was flattened at about a 45 degree angle to the axis.
 
Once found an entire 38 SPL round (not fired - intact) on the bottom of the swimming pool in our apartment complex, years ago.
 
My late father-in-law's car was overheating. He took it to a mechanic who found a bullet in the radiator.

Not a nice neighborhood.
 
At my last job, I had a bag of found bullets that had landed on the property and been found by employees. It wasn't a few, it was in the dozens.
 
Bullet in the door frame

I worked in strawberry mansion area of north Philadelphia(not good). I noticed a hole in our steel security gate while opening the office one morning.
A bullet had punched through the gate and one side of our steel door frame. I'm not sure what caliber the round was but I'm glad it landed there after hours.
 
I worked at a medical center in a real
crappy,area as a security guard.I was
standing near the ER when we heard a
thud about 10ft away.It was a 45acp
hardball hitting the ground. Later that
year i was doing rounds in the parking
lot.I heard a pop and something went
buzzing by my head and ping off the
steel pole support for the cover
parking.It wasn't very long after that
i found safer employment.
 
Can't say that I have. I have found a number of shotgun shells, but those were of course out in the woods.
 
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