Posted on 05/16/2012 7:32:28 AM PDT by kevcol
LAREDO, Texas (AP) - A man and a woman from Mexico face up to 10 years in prison for illegally having about 27,000 rounds of ammunition in South Texas.
(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...
Here are a few more details from the story and note number 6 below:
“illegal immigrants”
“they ran a stop sign”
“ammo in more than two dozen boxes in the pickup truck.”
“told investigators they expected to be paid about $500 to deliver the ammo to a designated pickup spot.”
More details at http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/05/15/46506.htm
“.223 caliber ammunition.”
NOTE: Federal law imposes several restrictions on the transfer and possession of firearm ammunition. Federal law prohibits ammunition sale or transfer to, and possession by, anyone who:
1. is under indictment for a crime punishable by more than one year imprisonment or convicted of a felony,
2. is a fugitive from justice,
3. is an unlawful user of a controlled substance,
4. is addicted to a controlled substance,
5. has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution,
6. is an illegal alien,
7. has been dishonorably discharged from the military, and
8. has renounced his or her U.S. citizenship (18 USC § 922(d) and (g)).
Many shooters in Texas go through 10,000 rounds during the summer months and another 10,000 during fall and winter. Many buy their ammo in 10,000 round lots for some decent discounts.
Pistol shooters may shoot 50,000 rounds a year.
This is a good start but not at all impressive for Texas. Sort of puny, actually.
That's what they look like to me. SKS and AK...
Sure looks like 7.62 x 39 to me. The proportions are all wrong for 5.56 x 45.
that is what I was thinking... I used to have some of that ammo for muh rifle, before it was lost in a fire some time ago
7.62x39
“There is a common-sense answer of “no more than I will shoot in 5-10yrs, because the brass will corrode”.”
I have ammo from as far back as World War I that hasn’t corroded. More practically, just a week ago I was shooting some 7.62 NATO from 1968, and it went BANG just as well as if it was made yesterday.
Storage conditions are everything.
I’m guessing that a cardboard box (or plastic case) sitting on the floor of my closet isn’t the best way to store ammo.
Need to at least move it into a sealed plastic box.
27,000 rounds amounts to a good weekend in the country. No biggie.
Looks like .223 to me. Get a magnifying glass and look. They are necked.
Dunno about plastic, but cardboard can be iffy.
There’s people all over the ‘Net bewailing the 1990s German surplus 7.62 NATO surplus that hit the market a few years ago...it was in twenty round cardboard boxes in sealed plastic battle packs, and the cardboard caused corrosion where it contacted the brass cases. I saw the same thing in my stock of 1968 Australian surplus, though it was not as consistent.
You mean the boat caught on fire?
hehe
This is good info. And I can understand why cardboard would absorb humidity, and possibly contribute to corrosion.
I would think that the plastic Remington “Stingers” of the .22 variety, being housed in plastic may not be bad - but putting them in a sealed and dry package would be better.
My 9mm is in the styrofoam, but if moved into a dry plastic and sealed container - they should last well too.
Good stuff!! Thanks
You learn something new every day.
This article
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47421475
Says it’s .223 ammunition, but it looks like AK ammo to me (7.62x39).
Fiocchi is now sealing some of their ammo at the factory.
It should be on their web site.
I think the biggest problem with the German ammo was the cardboard itself. The acidity was too high, so humidity probably wasn’t even necessary—they were in sealed plastic battle packs. The Aussie ammo was in cardboard boxes inside ammo cans, some of which probably had not been opened since they left the Moolagong ammo plant in 1968.
A real shame about the German ammo...that stuff’s some of the best I’ve ever shot.
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