Question about my firearm purchase
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:46 pm
Ok I've been a long time reader but only recently registered. For a while I had a question about my firearm purchase, and thought this would be a good time to ask. Nothing like public display of ignorance to get things started. 
I got my CHL a little over a year ago and a few months before that I bought a New Springfield XD40SC at the Big Town gun show at Mesquite, TX. Everything went fine with the purchase. When I got home I sat down with the gun learning how to load it, unload it, break it down, and clean it before I did any shooting with it. Here is where my question starts. I noticed in the box that there I once piece of brass from a fired round in a small paper envelope. At the time I thought it was part of some quality assurance test. However later I noticed a little a compliance sticker saying this gun was compliment with two states. One of them was New York and I can't remember what the other was (box is currently stuffed in the storage building somewhere). Looking at all the anti-gun legislation I heard about in New York it occurred to me that the brass may have been from a ballistics test of some type. Is this possible?
Seeing as I have no desire in living in or visiting New York, I really don't really don't know all the gun laws of that state. I guess that why I'm asking the experts here.
As far as ballistics tests goes, I read plenty to know how ineffective they are. I was curious to know what other people think about my theory.
Randy
wo5m
I got my CHL a little over a year ago and a few months before that I bought a New Springfield XD40SC at the Big Town gun show at Mesquite, TX. Everything went fine with the purchase. When I got home I sat down with the gun learning how to load it, unload it, break it down, and clean it before I did any shooting with it. Here is where my question starts. I noticed in the box that there I once piece of brass from a fired round in a small paper envelope. At the time I thought it was part of some quality assurance test. However later I noticed a little a compliance sticker saying this gun was compliment with two states. One of them was New York and I can't remember what the other was (box is currently stuffed in the storage building somewhere). Looking at all the anti-gun legislation I heard about in New York it occurred to me that the brass may have been from a ballistics test of some type. Is this possible?
Seeing as I have no desire in living in or visiting New York, I really don't really don't know all the gun laws of that state. I guess that why I'm asking the experts here.
As far as ballistics tests goes, I read plenty to know how ineffective they are. I was curious to know what other people think about my theory.
Randy
wo5m
