From: loose_electrons@.hotmail.invalid 
  
  wrote in message news:gTK_e.314949$on1.23527@clgrps13... 
 > Gord Beaman  wrote: 
 > 
 >> I agree with Dave about the best way to dispose of them, although 
 >> I'd take issue about the danger... 
 > 
 > I agree.  I think his concerns about "Endangering personnel with unstable 
 > ammo" are a bit unwarranted.   I don't beleive that bullets get 
 > progressively 
 > "unstable" over time.    Risks should be the same as any ammo, as you say. 
  
 Okay, tell that to the Halifax EOD teams that are called out several times a 
 year to deal with scattered ammunition that gets dug up from the Bedford 
 Magazine explosion in 1945.  If you're not an expert, and you don't know how 
 the ammo has been stored over its entire lifetime, then you don't know what 
 you're dealing with.  It may likely be nothing, but do you really want to 
 take that chance? 
  
 > 
 > I'm hesitant to call the cops, as I don't want to get into 20 questions 
 > about the matter.   I'm just looking for no hassle, NQA disposal, and from 
 > what I remember the military is good at that. 
  
 They aren't going to ask 20 questions.  You just finished saying that you 
 found it in a garage, left by a previous owner. 
  
 > 
 > When I was "In", I dumped a box of found 50-cal on them, NQA.  I was 
 > pleased 
 > to see it properly disposed of, with little overhead to myself. 
  
 If you were "in", then you'd know that the purpose of the amnesty boxes is 
 for personnel to turn in ammunition that they may have deliberately or 
 accidentally taken from ranges/exercises during the course of their duties, 
 NOT to dump possibly 65 year old ammunition into. 
  
 Have some consideration for the personnel who are going to have to deal with 
 this stuff, and leave it in place for the experts to decide if it's safe to 
 be transported or not. 
  
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