Man accidentally shoots himself without a gun:

Damion M. Mosher, who put bullets in a vise and whacked them with a hammer to empty the brass shell casings, was hit in the abdomen by one of the shots, authorities said.

This was in Lake Luzerne, NY, just a few minutes from my hometown.

We used to take bullets from Jimmy's dad and throw them against walls. Or, sometimes we'd saw shotgun shells in half to get at the sweet sweet powder. We weren't trying to get brass for scrap, though - we just liked to blow shit up. Throwing cigarette lighters, tubes of model glue and model rocket engines into fires was always fun, too.