The San Antonio Police Department's Bomb Squad was called to a Southwest Side neighborhood Saturday after dozens of rounds of ammunition were found underneath a home.The ammunition was discovered on the 7900 block of Dempsey Drive, near Old Pearsall Road and Southwest Military Drive, around 2:45 p.m. Saturday.
Capt. Troy Balcar of the San Antonio Fire Department said a family member found a sealed box with about 75 rounds of decades-old ammunition underneath the house. He said the rounds were about 40 years old, based on a date written on the box.Half a dozen nearby homes were evacuated for about three hours.
"This is definitely a big danger, because they've been under there so long," Balcar said. "They've rusted, they've been exposed to the weather, elements outside so we definitely want to get them disposed of as quickly as possible."
Family members said a veteran who served for more than 30 years lived at the house until he passed away recently.
This is the second time old ammunition has been found at the home. Just last week, the bomb squad spent about half an hour disposing of shotgun shells found there.


http://news4sanantonio.com/news/loca...omes-evacuated

this is why our taxes are so high, pure stupidity, lack of common sense................Hell these people probably call and exterminator to deal with a single house fly

The family members and the cops were all idiots. Homes evacuated??
Not like it was a 40 year old case of sweaty dynamite.


"Capt. Troy Balcar of the San Antonio Fire Department said a family member found a sealed box with about 75 rounds of decades-old ammunition underneath the house. He said the rounds were about 40 years old, based on a date written on the box.Half a dozen nearby homes were evacuated for about three hours.
"Half a dozen nearby homes were evacuated for about three hours.
"This is definitely a big danger, because they've been under there so long," Balcar said. "They've rusted, they've been exposed to the weather, elements outside so we definitely want to get them disposed of as quickly as possible."

I don't understand why they felt they needed to evacuate the nearby houses? It's not like ammunition just goes off by itself, even 'old' ammunition is likely to be modern brass cased with non corrosive primers, not much of a threat unless you intentionally mishandle it.

BTW, your link is broken.

Tacoma PD evacuated several city block a few years ago after finding a small pipe casing in the street with a burned out fuse.
The kids who left it went back to get some more fuse.

They sell stuff at the gun shows that is older than that.

From what I hear from my fellow neighbor Texan, San Antonio is basically the Seattle of Texas.

I would tend to think a couple things:

1) Not one logical thinker in the whole group (hard to believe, but this IS 2017)
2) Logic doesn't come into play. By the script of hazards and by the play book. "If such and such is found.......do this and this and this......."

Check the map out:

That would be Austin Texas, mi amigo.

They are all fucking morons.

They were 40 caliber, not 81mm mortar rounds for fucks sake.

Aren't we being a little quick to condemn all these people as idiots when WE don't know the full story? I know the thread title says "handgun ammunition" but all accounts of this incident don't reveal what the actual caliber is. I might be a little more concerned if aged 50 BMG tracer rounds were involved. How does anyone know it wasn't some 20mm HE that some bozo hauled home from Lackland AF base.

Because the video at this link says they were 40 caliber?
http://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/75-rounds-of-ammunition-found-underneath-house-nearby-homes-evacuated

HA, my friend said Austin is like Olympia. Full of Lefty-turds. Professional Lefty-turds, being the Capitol and all.

Good point!