Empty casing that comes with a new gun

[Butokan]

[AK4me]

Its just the shell from the round they test fired your gun with, It should have came in a envelope with the testers name on it.

[goathead]

trash!!

[69Mach1]

Those empty cases are for some States that require them. CA is not one of those States. We do not corner the market when it comes to stupid gun laws, but we have the best.......except for Conneticut. They can have an SBR (Fed NFA) but no rifle (non SBR) with a folding stock. That's just weird.

[JanG]

why mach, seems you have a penchant for folding stocks

[69Mach1]

Yes, but non folding-folding stocks. lol

[gravedigger]

I hold onto them so that when some brain dead prosecutor tries to tell a Jerry Springer jury that it was MY gun that (insert injury or death here), I can produce a casing with the firing pin from my gun to compare it against the firing pin on the casing he found somewhere. I just see it as a tool to use, should the situation arise.

[Merc1138]

I hold onto them so that when some brain dead prosecutor tries to tell a Jerry Springer jury that it was MY gun that (insert injury or death here), I can produce a casing with the firing pin from my gun to compare it against the firing pin on the casing he found somewhere. I just see it as a tool to use, should the situation arise.

Except it probably won't match later on anyway if you actually use your gun regularly at the range. The ease of manipulation of barrels and firing pins is why the states with laws that make them collect these casings hasn't ever won them a case.

[Echidin]

No need to worry about it, I don't know where any of the empty casing that came with my new guns are either.

[plan-b]

Maryland & New York come to mind as states that require the fired shell casings to be turned into "the authorities." I think they've spent tens of millions of dollars implementing those laws and have yet to solve a single case with it (I have no citations so someone correct me if I'm wrong). Obviously the law makers didn't realize that the breach face and firing pin changes through normal wear with continued shooting.

[esskay]

If you sell a used gun to someone in one of those states, do you need to provide the shell casing? That might be one remote rationale to hang on to it.

[MossbergMan]

Ut OH!!!

No need to worry about it, I don't know where any of the empty casing that came with my new guns are either.

Ah, but Janet Napalitano knows where they are and who they belong too..

[Just-in]

I lost mine. After my next range trip I may keep two of them.

[bohoki]

its so you can reload right out of the box

[Ducman]

you can use it if you reload