RE: I cant believe it...
A friend of mine works for Parks Canada in a historical capacity. He restores old guns for various displays. They received a shipment of Brown Bess muskets from a museum and he says to his crew "OK first thing we do with a gun is check if it is loaded." They all laughed. 35 guns, some heavily rusted, 22 were loaded. Nobody was laughing anymore. And these came from a museum.