Why the spent casing?

[USA1]

You learn something new every day! I thought it was supposed to be some sort of QC thing.

Don't feel bad...I did too.

[Embalmo]

New one on me-I always assumed that it was to prove that the gun worked.

[Excaliber]

In Texas, I think they only do this for handguns. I don't recall being aware of this being done for my rifle.

I don't think they do it at all in Texas. I've bought 3 handguns in the last 1-1/2 months and I have the fired casings for all 3.

Texas doesn't waste money on this silly scheme. Folks down here have too much horse sense to let that happen.

You'll find the casing in the box with some guns because it's more expensive to create separate batches of "with casing" and "without casing" guns than it is to just put the casing in with all of 'em and not worry about which state they're shipped to.

Another "case" of government run amok and imposing expensive burdens on business and citizens for absolutely no other reason than that they can.

They can, of course, because the folks in those states let them.

[CompVest]

The practice of putting spent cases in can be helpful to the gun owner. It makes it easy to check for possible firing pin hit problems.

[dicion]

I actually saw an episode of CSI where they *gasp* actually showed the worthlessness of this.

So this guy shot his wife or something, they recovered his gun, and it didn't match the casing or round they recovered
Later it was revealed that he *Gasp!* Swapped the Barrel!!!

Of course, they made 'swapping the barrel' out to be some super-hard experts-only sort of thing, painted it so that it looked like Only Criminals swap barrels, and they only discovered it because he left scratch/tool marks, etc all over it.

In reality, it would take me probably 20 seconds or less to swap the barrel in any of my 1911's, or XD, and noone would be able to tell the difference, because it Requires no tools!
Heck, the new barrel would probably look Less marked and scratched than the old one!

[alvins]

nothing a little tap on my bench grinder wont fix.its not like you have to grind off a half inch to screw up the etching.

[RECIT]

TV is silly sometimes. So are laws though...

[terryg]

A little termonology - - - Sausages have "casings" - - - Ammunition has "cases"

Hmmm. I don't mind semantic corrections - but I question the accuracy of this. I think in this context, the two are pretty much interchangeable. AFAIK - but I could be wrong.

[MoJo]

A little terminology - - - Sausages have "casings" - - - Ammunition has "cases"

Hmmm. I don't mind semantic corrections - but I question the accuracy of this. I think in this context, the two are pretty much interchangeable. AFAIK - but I could be wrong.

I'm not trying to start a war but the correct term as related to ammunition is "case" here's a link to a Wikepedia article.

[Pawpaw]

I'm not trying to start a war but the correct term as related to ammunition is "case" here's a link to a Wikepedia article.

No war but using the link you provided, search for "casing" and see how many hits you get. I stopped counting after the first 6 or 8.

It's all good!

[SlickTX]

I'm not trying to start a war but the correct term as related to ammunition is "case" here's a link to a Wikepedia article.

No war but using the link you provided, search for "casing" and see how many hits you get. I stopped counting after the first 6 or 8.

It's all good!

I was going to post something to the effect of the "light bulb coming on" . . . but some wiseazz would probably have to tell me that the correct term was "lamp". <sigh>

[terryg]

A little terminology - - - Sausages have "casings" - - - Ammunition has "cases"

Hmmm. I don't mind semantic corrections - but I question the accuracy of this. I think in this context, the two are pretty much interchangeable. AFAIK - but I could be wrong.

I'm not trying to start a war but the correct term as related to ammunition is "case" here's a link to a Wikepedia article.

No war. I really do appreciate corrections. I tend to be a stickler myself. So no worries.

But as has been shown, that particular article actually demonstrates the two words being used interchangeable.

If you do a wikip search for 'casing' you get the following:

Casing (ammunition), shell enclosing the explosive propellant in ammunition
Casing (borehole), metal tube used during the drilling of a well
Casing (molding), decorative molding surrounding door or window openings
Casing (sausage), thin covering holding the food contents of sausage
Casing (submarine), platform attached to the upper side of a submersible vehicle
Casing stone, smooth stone covering for a structure such as those on the Giza Necropolis

And if you do a wikip search for 'case' you get a lot of hits the disambiguation page - but only one,'Case-shot', is ammo related. You also get a link back to the 'casing' disambiguation page.

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But - wikipedia should never be used as the end all proof of idea.

[texjames]

I'm not trying to start a war but the correct term as related to ammunition is "case" here's a link to a Wikepedia article.

No war but using the link you provided, search for "casing" and see how many hits you get. I stopped counting after the first 6 or 8.

It's all good!

Case or caseing all the same thing.Man you guys sometimes...sheesh.
Do a Bing search for ammunition caseing ...see what it turns up...

[snorri]

I rest my casing.

[Ol Zeke]

A little terminology - - - Sausages have "casings" - - - Ammunition has "cases"

Hmmm. I don't mind semantic corrections - but I question the accuracy of this. I think in this context, the two are pretty much interchangeable. AFAIK - but I could be wrong.

I'm not trying to start a war but the correct term as related to ammunition is "case" here's a link to a Wikepedia article.

I put all of the empty "cases" that come with my new guns inside an old pillow "casing" until I'm ready to reload them...