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Re:The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket by jemfinch on Monday November 01, 2010 @03:31PM (#1857853)
My belt buckle has much more metal than a shell casing, and it never sets off the metal detectors at airports. Shell casings have less metal in them than the buttons on my button-fly jeans.

EDIT: I was mistaken, he did say it was an unused bullet, so it was more than a shell casing.

Re:The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket by jat850 on Monday November 01, 2010 @03:35PM (#1857867)
Yeah, that's a good point. I was thinking more along the lines of an X-ray machine (see, I don't even know enough about security processes to know if that's the right terminology) where they reveal outlines of denser objects, rather than the pass-through metal detector itself.