Seen this personally. A Captain who responded to the Navy Yard active shooter had his issued rifle and shotgun in the car in the vertical racks we used. He told me he handed his shotgun to another officer as they went to enter the building and the officer couldn't get a round to chamber in the shotgun. He brought the shotgun to me later explaining the problem. After removing the compressed spring I had to push the rounds out of the magazine tube as all 5 rounds had mushroomed so much they wouldn't budge under the spring pressure. We had a policy of bringing shotguns to the range every 6 months to shoot up the old ammo. This guy was kind of a buff and was pretty good about bringing his own issued shotgun instead of using the training guns. So within 6 months of bouncing around loaded in the car's vertical rack the Federal tactical we issued bulged. David
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