legality of 5.56 blanks?

[Portence]

This weekend, we were camping and on one of our quad rides we happened upon 4 boxmags for the c9, with around 450 live blank rounds, with links to join them, and about 200 or so spent brass. All in 5.56mm. It seems the army was doing a training excercise. Is it legal for us to keep them? We have restricted and non restricted PAL licenses, i cant see anything wrong with it.

 

[Ceska]

Nice find, lucky basterd.

 

[Portence]

ya i thought it was pretty damn cool, i got some pics if you wanna see, not all the ammo is in the pics, just the boxmags and as many links as we could put together with blanks, the rest is in the boxmags. just figured id post it up here to see if it was legal to keep.

 

[JohnC]

what do you mean by boxmags? If they're magazines over 5 rounds better disassemble them right away and get them pinned!

 

[Portence]

its kinda hard to pin a boxmag.... its a box, that holds 200 rounds under a c9 (m249) There is no possible way to pin then. Hell, no way to even use them, just cool collectibles i guess

 

[Kano]

pics!

 

[Ceska]

Actually, and sadly Johnc is correct. The blanks are fine but the box mags would fall under the definition of "cartridge magazine" Part III sec. 84 of the CC.

 

[Mike_R23A]

Ceska, not in this case, all these boxes do is keep the belt from flopping around, they don't feed ammo into the machinegun. Also, unlike the 30 rnd C7 mags, we don't have to acount for C9 boxes in the forces.

 

[Portence]

Thanks mike for clearing this up. Yes, all a boxmag does, is keeps the belt of ammo from flailing around and keeps it nice and neat instead of a long dangling mess. It does not serve ANY purpose in feeding the gun, the bullets are pulled into the gun via the chain, as one fires, the next is pulled in.


Pics

 

[Paulinski]

Sweet

 

[Canuck I Am]

You complete and utter bastard.

The only things I ever seem to find are bits of gum stuck to the bottom of my shoe or a corroded old penny.

 

[IDPACONVERT]

Great Treasure Hunting!

 

[MPI]

Blanks are legal but if the head stamp says IVI then DND owns them. Box mags are just boxes and aren't covered in our gun laws but DND still owns them , and unfortunetly IVI are not sold (legally) to the public but whatever....Have fun with them.

 

[contact148]

the LINKS are prohibited as they are not for a gun designed prior to 1945

you cannot have more then 5 rnds of that ammo linked together


pull them apart into 5 rnd sections and your a-ok

yes i know SOME belts/links are legal but NOT this one

 

[Portence]

yep, that i have been told contact... cant have more than 5 per belt

 

[Slavex]

ahhh but these are blanks, not live rounds. So does that make a difference?

 

[Portence]

i dont think it makes a difference, it is still considered a live round, it can kill somebody.

 

[jwc]

That's right, they are illegal, dangerous, contagious, corrosive, destructive, contaminated, evil and - uh - mine! Turn them over immediately...

 

[pitdogboy]

man ...the laws are way to complicated!

 

[BEARMAN]

Maybe the military should be charged for leaving such illegal items in the woods instead of having them locked up. If it saves only one child or child like person.