Posted on 12/28/2010 8:56:48 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Law enforcement officials said they did not believe the incident had any links to terrorism. The FBI described the man as a 37-year-old nationalized U.S. citizen traveling en route to Jamaica. Authorities did not specify his previous nationality.
Authorities detained the man after a baggage handler reported a small explosion while unloading luggage from an American Airlines (AMR.N) flight that arrived in Miami from Boston.
FBI spokesman Mark Leverock said the man's luggage contained hundreds of bullet primers -- a key component of bullet cartridges.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Out to paint the town red, and look what trouble he got into!
Don’t bite down on the pepper-corns
Bullet primers. LOL.
How does that work?
Very impressive, I have never seen such a multiple post!
Wow, it really liked that post. Sorry for the multiple.
The devil made him do it.
I’m just talented that way. Err, really don’t know how that happened.
Things are bound to go badly when you answer to satan.
Yeah, I read that “bullet primers” nonsense too.
That is like saying “tire lugnuts.”
It is easier to spray them with WD-40 and let them soak, if you want to make them inert.
lol That would be my approach. But heating them up until POP is like, well, Ripley saying, Nuke them from orbit, then you can be sure!
The writer clearly does not understand much, if anything, about ammunition. The bullet is that little thing that flies through the air towards its intended resting place. Primers are those little things that react to a blow from a firearm firing pin and ignite the propellant powder contained within the shellcase. The whole assembly is called a cartridge. Multiple cartridges are known as ammunition.
A bullet is to a cartridge as flour is to bread as cement is to concrete, etceteras. When will they ever learn?
I have yet to see a headline that accurately describes what was found. Ammunition component maybe?
I have yet to see what the F888 happened.
An aerosol can explodes, wait, it was bullets, wait, it was primers.
And the suspect is now still vague.
Reminds me of last years Christmas firework display over Detroit.
Nobody could report anything that was accurate until the passengers of the plane started talking.
This time, we have no passengers. Only the baggage handlers, and their handlers.
And still no name of the “person of interest” who is not American, maybe.
Not really. Static electricity can ignite primers, as well as percussion and heat. Primers are not as clean as they appear. Minute amounts of the priming mix can end up on the primer exteriors during manufacture. In addition, tiny particles of priming mix 'dust' can fall from primers and accumulate in the bottom of a bulk container. Very slight movement can then ignite the primer mix and a chain reaction within the other primers can result.
Primers should never be removed from their original grid-oriented containers and stored in any other bulk container. Primer feed tubes on ammunition reloading equipment are the only exception.
“This time, we have no passengers. Only the baggage handlers, and their handlers.”
And the handlers may or may not be American, perhaps... oh, well, you know...
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