> Major Variola (ret)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At 12:29 AM 6/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: > >At 09:48 AM 06/09/2003 -0700, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: > >>the Capitol because it had a gasoline container strapped to its roof. > > But the real point is that ammo has to be registered. Amazing. > I found an old, live cartridge in the desert last weekend, tossed it in > the car. What if I lived near DC instead of SoCal? > Actually, ammunition is not registered as such, but in DC you are only allowed to possess ammunition suitable for one of your DC-registered firearms. This applies even to spent cartridge cases.
If this guy didn't own a DC-registered shotgun of the same gauge as the shell found, then he's in violation. The car had California plates, so it seems plausible that he was a non-resident. Peter Trei