Weapons at school (oops)

[blume357]

I was doing some work at my church today which also has a Montessori school in it and had left the back doors of my van open for a while and realized when I was leaving that if the 'wrong' person had come by and looked I might have been in trouble with the authorities for a while....

 

[GunnyGene]

That would have absolutely gotten a visit from the local SWAT and probably have locked down the entire neighborhood while they blew up your van in place!

You should post this on Twitter.

 

[Mobuck]

My PDW is 'hidden in plain sight' for this reason. Hauling it into or close to a school/hospital/government parking lot isn't illegal. That doesn't mean that some over zealous constable couldn't rain a whole lot of crap down on the parade if it was seen.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

So.... What is in the box??????

 

[contender]

That's funny right there.

It would NOT have been funny if some idiot who's drank the fear mongering scare stuff had seen it.

I too have some military surplus wood boxes that could raise a few eyebrows. That,, and ammo cans, etc!

 

[the_leper_colony]

...and realized when I was leaving that if the 'wrong' person had come by and looked I might have been in trouble with the authorities for a while....

My personal 'rule of thumb' is to never have more than half a case of those things in any one vehicle!

(Just joking, of course - in fact, I stopped doing professional fireworks shows with a licensed pyrotechnician over 20 years ago, because of the risk involved. It was good to be able to help out a friend, but if there's an unexpected event, there's a chance the 'family jewels' will land somewhere in the next county!)

As always IMHO, FWIW, YMMV, etc., etc.

 

[the_leper_colony]

...I too have some military surplus wood boxes that could raise a few eyebrows. That,, and ammo cans, etc!

I used to have some heavy-duty fireworks boxes that I kept for storage. Then I realized that if I ever had a house fire, the firefighters might see the hazard warning labels, evacuate the building, and let it burn. So I spray-painted over the labels (and eventually just tossed the boxes).

 

[caryc]

There was a story on the news the other day that I guess Grandpa died and the family was going through his things. One of the things they found was a grenade. As you might guess some fool pulled the pin. You can guess what happened next.

 

[Watertender]

There was a story on the news the other day that I guess Grandpa died and the family was going through his things. One of the things they found was a grenade. As you might guess some fool pulled the pin. You can guess what happened next.

D'oh!!! Terrible thing but a Darwin award moment. The amount of things that came back as war souvenirs is amazing. My 1st wife's uncle was in an ordnance company in occupied Germany in 1946 and 1947. The stuff he brought back was top quality and sadly all gone now. I saw pictures of at least 50 handguns of all types as well as a couple of drilling combination guns.

 

[blume357]

you can pull the pin and nothing will happen it's when the handle flips off you got a short period of time before things get loud. Never had to 'play' with fragmentation grenades ... only signal ones... back when I was being taught how to direct helicopters into a landing zone....one of the few things I learned my first year of college.... that with polishing shoes and brass, how to march.... and do a hundred or so pushups...

Nothing in the box of course.... just something an old customer of mine had sitting around and asked if I wanted it.... don't really know what I'm going to do with it... is in real good shape... better than the ammo box I got from a neighbor of the same type... wood... I may bring it to the Ruger gathering in October....

 

[caryc]

I have thrown a grenade before. Of course pulling the pin doesn't make it explode. It's when you let go of the handle and throw it, the fuse ignites and blows the grenade. After pulling the pin, the handle will only stay in place when you have your hand around it and you're squeezing it.

After pulling the pin, you could sit there all day while squeezing that thing but, I would not recommend it. There have been instances of grenades with short fuses showing up from the factory.

 

[contender]

I've handled & thrown more than a few grenades. As noted,, pulling the pin, is removing the safety. The handle/spoon is what holds down the spring loaded firing pin. It hits a large primer (kinda like a shotgun primer) which in turn burns to a point,, until it ignites and causes the explosive charge inside to ignite. There are "immediate" fuses,, and there are "delay" fuses. I always treated any I threw as if they were immediate fused ones.

Bring the box up this fall.

 

[WendyZXZ]

There was a story on the news the other day that I guess Grandpa died and the family was going through his things. One of the things they found was a grenade. As you might guess some fool pulled the pin. You can guess what happened next.

In my husbands family the closest to that was my Mother In Law moved into the house her parents built in the early 70s after they retired from farming. MIL remarried in 1991 and not too long afterwards her and her husband were going through the sizeable workshed her dad built to keep his boat, tools and other things in and they found old sticks of dynamite that were decades old and sweating nitroglycerin. Apparently when he retired as a farmer and built the new house he moved it without disposing of it and forgotten it. She called the Limestone County PD and they took care of it. She recognized exactly what it was, looked like the sticks had been drizzled with honey and rolled in rock salt. She was surprised more with all the noise and activity in the shop that it had not been leveled at some point. Her Dad used dynamite all through his time farming blasting boulders, stumps, etc and that it was legal to buy OTC at farm supply areas until the mid or late 60s and it is not uncommon to find those explosives at old farmhouses and barns.

 

[redhawker]

Luckily you're not in Commiefornia. If someone had seen that in the back of your van, the panicked calls would have come into the PD and a 10 square block area would have been evacuated. They would bring in a robot to pick up the box and put it in a containment vessel and then blow it up with their own explosives. And, of course, you would be arrested and labeled a domestic terrorist. Of course, warrants would be obtained for your house to find all these grenades that you obviously must have secreted in various locations throughout your house and garage. Wouldn't matter that it was just a box.

 

[caryc]

Luckily you're not in Commiefornia. If someone had seen that in the back of your van, the panicked calls would have come into the PD and a 10 square block area would have been evacuated. They would bring in a robot to pick up the box and put it in a containment vessel and then blow it up with their own explosives. And, of course, you would be arrested and labeled a domestic terrorist. Of course, warrants would be obtained for your house to find all these grenades that you obviously must have secreted in various locations throughout your house and garage. Wouldn't matter that it was just a box.

Well...one can never be TOO SAFE.

 

[gundog5]

When I was a patrol Sergeant in California I covered a call where a woman was cleaning out her deceased father’s house. She found a clear glass jar this tape label that read Nitroglycerin. I looked at it and thought better be safe and sorry. We transported the jar in a bomb trailer to the local fairgrounds. A bomb tech came out and we blew it on the ground. It was a hell of an explosion and blew out some nearby windows. The bomb technician said it the jar was about a quart of Nitro. So you never know. And guess what “Redhawker” nobody go arrested and yes we did search the house at the homeowner’s request to find any other explosives . It was clear and we went on our way.