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You're retarded tbh fam

Seconded.

If you find and old rusted and potentially loaded firearm, please handle it like there's no danger at all. But first ask someone to film it.

I take it you don't live in a place that still has WW1 and WW2 shit laying around rusting away.

In places that saw action and have stuff rusting away, you're supposed to call the police so they can send proper disposal teams. That applies to old ammo, and especially explosives.

That applies to artillery shells not pistol ammo.

I think older ammo might have been a problem (before smokeless, and early smokeless). But since in western Europe you still find dangerous stuff from WW1 you get used to reporting stuff and not really fucking with it, just in case.

I guess I just forget how ridiculously ignorant most Europeans are about guns.

True. Germany is a country where shooting and hunting is harder than even in most of western Europe. In France we used to have mandatory military service (10 months or so), but not since my generation.

So a lot of people in western Europe don't know the first thing about any guns. And don't have people around them who do.

Germany is even "worse". I think shooting and hunting is harder to have access to there. On top of that we're talking about countries where illegal ownership of a firearm is a big deal. Same for nazi memorabilia.

So with a gun, if you don't know you're doing : better call people who might know their shit and not take risks (legal or otherwise).

There's a difference between being cautious and being an idiot.

With something like a gun, if you don't know what you're doing, better leave it alone.

Sport shooting is very easy to get into, it just has the stigma to be for boring old farts. Hunting is harder yeah, because of the population density it's highly regulated.

I'm assuming he's referring to things like the red zone in northern France, where it's illegal to trespass because there's so much unexploded ordnance under the ground from WWI. Outside of that farmers still dig up literal tons of bombs and mortar rounds each year.

I'd agree with you if it had been some manner of explosives instead of a revolver so rusted it's nearly unrecognizable.

Old ammo can be bad news. Especially several of them going at the same time.

Old ammo can be bad news

The problem with decades old ammo is usually it doesn't go off.

I think there are few chemical reactions that can happen once you get moisture inside the case (especially over decades). But it could be something I've been warned about even older ammo (WW1).

Because some of us live in countries that aren't big enough pussies to let people invade them

Wrong way around : you get a lot of unexploded shells if you resist invasions. If you let the invaders in, at worst you get a crashed vehicle or a few old tires.

That must be why I've never heard of an unexploded shell in Paris, then.

Just do what we do: put an ocean on each side and two weak nothing countries to your North and South as buffers

Yes nothing too bad in Paris. But all the northeast part of France is riddled from the shelling in WW1 (a few times a year a whole city block gets evacuated when construction finds a shell), and the northwest from WW2 (every few years an old naval mine is found). In some of those places, farmers used to find several shells each time they plowed their fields. Some of them would just stack the rusty shells together because they didn't want to waste time on these (not the smartest thing to do though).

I learned that the most dangerous to handle (although not the most powerful) are anti-air shells (they are small enough to fit in your hand, and they featured a special detonator to make sure they detonated long before falling on the ground). Those detonators could use things like the rotation of the fired shell, or the orientation (stop rotating or face down = explode).

Which mean an unexploded one, which would have fallen because the detonator jammed, might explode in your face at the slightest disturbance.

I like the image of farmers just stacking piles of huge artillery shells like it's no big deal.

Europe is strange.

Here you go

Also found a few articles about shells exploding spontaneously in fields (but it's only in French) :

http://www.francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/pas-de-calais-plusieurs-obus-de-la-premiere-guerre-mondiale-explosent-naturellement-dans-un-champ_1230651.html

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God people take reddit way too serious. Jesus christ.

It's a drain on moderator resources which could be allocated better elsewhere.

Fucking kek

"WE DON'T HAVE THE SPOONS!"

Hotpocket rations must be running low.

What a shame, hopefully they don't have to cut any mod salaries.

I hear Moderator Inc. is going to have layoffs soon, what a shame

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SS Ehrendolch or ancient Roman gladius? Regardless, the Angst runs deep in Deutschland über alles* fascist trappings.

*Klar, sollte man "jeden" schreiben, but c'mon... it's all too fucking perfect.

Why not both? Maybe this is proof of time traveling Nazis.

if it had been good enough to still show the insignia it would have been forbiddn to sell it anways

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