The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket

Re:The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket by lsc on Monday November 01, 2010 @04:39PM (#1858133)

Cartridges[1] are prohibited on planes for good reason, I think. It is possible to set them off accidentally, and once you have a cartridge, building a one-time use zipgun is relatively simple, so if you want to keep firearms out of an area, you really need to keep cartridges out of that area.

Of course, if the bullet was really just the bullet without the propellant (that was not clear to me) then yeah, I agree with you.

[1] I think It's the explosive powder that matters here. A bullet with no propellant is just a lump of lead, which I think would be okay.

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Re:The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket by sorbus on Monday November 01, 2010 @05:15PM (#1858263)

But he had already gotten off the airplane, and it's a lot easier to cause damage with a single bullet on an airplane than it is to cause damage with a single bullet while leaving an airport - so either he's so stupid that he'll carry the bullet onto every airplane, waiting for the chance, or he just forgot that he was carrying it, as he said.

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