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What Is The Legality Of Having Or Using Slugs

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 Posted 07/30/2012  3:43 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Steele to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
What is the law regarding the possesion and or use of slugs? I am wondering about blank planchets and also discs that someone may have cut or drilled out of a piece of metal on their own.
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 Posted 07/30/2012  5:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tim Stroud to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Possessing them is fine. To use them as coinage is totally illegal.
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 Posted 07/30/2012  6:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If you really think about it, almost any hardware store, general store and even some grocery stores have sell something called washers. Yes they usually have holes in them but many are just blank pieces of metal. If you ever do any electrical work, you would notice all of those metal electrical boxes have push or punch outs. Those punchouts are just blank, round pieces of metal. And many are the same size as some of our coins.
Do to the above it could not be possible to outlaw metalic blancks. Just don't get caught using them for money.
One sort of nasty things people USED to do with things like that was use them in a pay phone. Especially the non magnetic ones. In the old days an operator would say please deposit $.75. They could only tell by the sound what you put in so the right size washer would work great.
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 Posted 07/30/2012  7:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add iraqandroll to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Fine to possess, illegal to use. Former LEO.
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