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当地官员周二表示，得克萨斯州南部一名男子多年来一直以为家中收藏的是一件内战时期的 dummy 弹药模型，结果发现它实为一枚活体爆炸物。
阿塔斯科萨县警长办公室表示，该男子在上午8点前致电副手，称他的一位军人朋友看过这件文物后，怀疑它是可以引爆的实弹。
“来电者告诉副手，他拥有这枚弹药已有多年，一直以为它只是一枚训练用的模型弹，”警长办公室在一份社交媒体帖子中写道。
出于极度谨慎，警长副手们调动了位于圣安东尼奥的拉克兰空军基地的爆炸物处理小组，该基地距离阿塔斯科萨县以北约一小时车程。该小组随后证实了该男子的怀疑。
警长办公室写道，这枚装置是一枚活体“鹦鹉弹”。它被运往布尔西斯营的一处靶场，官员们在此将其安全销毁。
内战时期弹药 阿塔斯科萨县警长办公室
官员们表示，此次事件没有造成人员受伤，也未提出任何指控。
帕洛特炮由西点军校毕业生罗伯特·帕洛特发明，是一种前装加农炮，内战期间为联邦军队广泛使用。根据美国国家公园管理局的资料，该武器以其炮尾处包裹的厚实铁质加固环为标志性特征。
这种武器有不同口径和重量规格，从10磅到300磅不等。目前尚不清楚这枚活体炮弹的具体尺寸。
Civil War-era artifact turns out to be live explosive, Texas officials say
July 28, 2026 / 2:59 PM EDT / CBS News
A man in South Texas had what he thought was a dummy Civil War-era ordnance in his home for years, but it turned out to be a live explosive, local officials said Tuesday.
The Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office said the man called deputies just before 8 a.m. and told them that a military friend of his saw the artifact and suspected it was active.
“The caller told deputies that he had owned the ordnance for years and had always thought it was a dummy round,” the sheriff’s office said in a social media post.
Sheriff’s deputies said they sent over an explosive disposal team from Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, which is about an hour north of Atascosa County, out of an abundance of caution. The team then confirmed the caller’s suspicion.
The device was a live “parrot round,” the sheriff’s office wrote. It was transported to an explosive range at Camp Bullis, where officials safely disposed of it.
Civil War-era ammunition Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office
No one was injured and no charges are pending, officials said.
The Parrott rifle, invented by West Point graduate Robert Parrott, is a muzzle-loading cannon commonly used by the Union in the Civil War. It is known for its thick iron reinforcing band wrapped around the breech, according to the National Park Service.
The weapon came in different sizes, ranging from 10 to 300 pounds. It’s unclear how big the live round was.
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