New Gun. What to do with spent casings?

[Sharpie1]

Either reload them, or throw them away.

TD

 

[Sean Cloherty]

DO NOT SEND THEM TO THE A.G.!

Spent casings are treated like firearms (no not like live ammo - like firearms :banghead: ) and I would assume that the jackass would try to make your life miserable.


Just write a polite note telling him to take some time off the job for his much needed surgery for recto-cranial inversion.

 

[blue86buick]

When I read the title, I thought you meant you had gotten your first gun, and were wondering what to do with all the spent brass you were generating.

 

[45R]

Send them in. Then polish your chamber and replace your extractor

The empty casing contacts other parts of the gun your missing. Such as the breechface and firing pin.

 

[Bigjake]

i like the idea of realoding them, and shooting them through as many guns as possible and then sending them in.

 

[Weimadog]

Polish and buff them until they are nice and shiney! Use 60 grit sandpaper and work your way up to 600 grit, then polishing compound!
Then, send them in to the Attorney General!

Weimadog

 

[Coronach]

Futo Inu,

I think they're included with all guns by some manufacturers. That way they dont' have to seperate shipments going to one state and make sure the casings are included. The FFL in the states requiring casings are supposed to ship the casings to the state crime lab (or some place else) along with the buyer's information. If your FFL isn't required to do that, he probably leaves them in the box...after all, you paid for 'em.

I think.

Mike

 

[rammy]

A friend of mine got a new H&K .40 and it came with two spent caseings and we both thought that it was to show that the pistol had been test fired. He has not to my knowledge sent the caseing to anyone.

I have one question. I am new to handguns just started shooting this year so this question may seem to "newbie". How can they tell that a case came from one pistiol or another. I always thought that the rifleing was the main way to ID a gun. Are the bullits sent to them along with a S/N ? will a pistol make different markings on a case as it ejects that another pistol of the same manufacturing and model with the same stile of ejecter? (basicly two pistols made by same manufacture at the same time with identical parts) sorry if this question is to long.


mark

 

[TheOtherOne]

will a pistol make different markings on a case as it ejects that another pistol of the same manufacturing and model with the same stile of ejecter? (basicly two pistols made by same manufacture at the same time with identical parts) sorry if this question is to long.

Supposedly there are microscopic differences between each gun that they can detect and that's what makes it like a fingerprint. The whole flaw with the system though is that these microscopic differences will change over time as the gun gets used.

 

[SDC]

If the report I read today (in the Spring issue of the AFTE/Association of Firearms & Toolmarks Examiners Journal) is anything to go by, those cases probably didn't even come out of YOUR pistol; they did an experiment on 15 brand-new pistols (Glocks) that were issued to a local police force, complete with 2 fired casings. In 11 of the 15 cases, one or both of the supplied cases WEREN'T FIRED IN THE PISTOLS THEY WERE SHIPPED WITH . Things that make you go "Hmmmmm."

 

[rammy]

Well the law or what ever it is. Is stupid, all it is going to do is track the purchases of legitimate law abiding people. Do they thank that a bad guy will walk into a local gun shop and buy the gun he wants to use in his next crime!!:banghead:

 

[BHPshooter]

You could always do what I did...

I call it "Brasshenge."

Wes

 

[RustyHammer]

Gator,

I like it.

Rusty

 

[rammy]

That is very creative!!!