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I think he owned a 40 cal in Virginia. That is legal for a DC resident. But the first disallowed search, based on a false claim of threat with a gun, found a box of 40 cal bullets. The second search found the FTF shotgun shell and the copper jacket hollow point muzzle loader sabot cased rounds. He had no powder.
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Actually the fruits of the search found,
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At the second hearing, the judge disallowed the first warrantless search and the fruits of it. This eliminated a box of rifle ammunition from the charges.
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Now that certainly sounds like it may be more than a box of musket balls even though musket balls look to be listed in the ammo law.
It looks like the prosecution was attempting to make the muzzle loading bullets into cop killers for their cause, and of course those bullets could probably be loaded into .45apc cases.
The shotgun shell is a very different issue IMO.
A dimpled primer will NOT at all render a cartridge as inert/inoperable. The only way of doing that is to drill a hole through and through the powder chamber.
That is a requirement we have for ammo used in firearms safety instruction.
That came about after a cartridge with a dimpled primer was chambered thinking it was a dummy round and discharged in a classroom.
Yes i feel for this man, but he lives in a place that should not be called America!