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Spent cartridges

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  • 02-11-2017 10:23pm
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    passatman86
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    . Im looking for 20 used/waste shotgun cartridges. Any idea where to get them. And they are for style/aesthetic use, to fit over wheel nuts on a car


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    hedzball
    Registered Users Posts: 764 ✭✭✭hedzball


    passatman86 wrote: »
    . Im looking for 20 used/waste shotgun cartridges. Any idea where to get them. And they are for style/aesthetic use, to fit over wheel nuts on a car



    Do you work for the monk? :P


    Go up to any clay ground on the weekend. Loads in the Pale.
    You'll pick em up handy enough. Tbh they'll rust up like feck so not worth yer while.



    'hdz


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    meathstevie
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    And you would need a firearms certificate to have ammunition components in your possession. I know it sounds a bit daft but it's the law....


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    Gorgeousgeorge
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    meathstevie wrote: »
    And you would need a firearms certificate to have ammunition components in your possession. I know it sounds a bit daft but it's the law....

    Was thinking that. Believe i read on here before that your maximum allowence on the licence technically includes spent cartridges in your posession


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    gunny123
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    Yes they will rust, they are steel with a very thin plating of brass on them. Get a bar of brass and ask someone with a lathe to knock you some up.


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    meathstevie
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    Go rooting online. You're bound to find novelty nut caps or whatever you want to call it that look like shotgun brass but have never been made to function like shotgun brass. As a consequence they're not component parts of ammunition so no certificate would be required.


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    passatman86
    Registered Users Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭passatman86


    Yeah I think I will follow up the novelty ones


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    Mississippi.
    Registered Users Posts: 282 ✭✭Mississippi.


    meathstevie wrote: »
    And you would need a firearms certificate to have ammunition components in your possession. I know it sounds a bit daft but it's the law....


    Does that technicality not just refer to spent case's that could be reloaded?

    If part of the plastic was cut back on a shotgun cartridge so that it couldn't be re crimped or if a hole was drilled in a centre fire case wouldn't they cease to be
    "ammunition components" ?

    Not sure though, what yous think?


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    BattleCorp
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    Mississippi. wrote: »
    Does that technicality not just refer to spent case's that could be reloaded?

    If part of the plastic was cut back on a shotgun cartridge so that it couldn't be re crimped or if a hole was drilled in a centre fire case wouldn't they cease to be
    "ammunition components" ?

    Not sure though, what yous think?

    The legislation doesn't differentiate between spent cartridges that can be reloaded and spent cartridges that can't be reloaded.

    I don't think that drilling holes etc. would get around the legislation seeing as a spent cartridge is looked upon as a firearm. You wouldn't get away with drilling the barrel and welding the action of your shotgun making it unusable so I doubt that would work for spent cartridges either.


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