very odd...doesn’t pass the “Smell Test”.
Need further information before I believe the exploding primer story...
While we wait for facts, a wild guess.
What would happen to the TSA “brains”, and I use that word with some hesitation, if the news got out that another bomber got by TSA?
Say he had a little powder, a detonator and a timer and something went off too early?
Would TSA announce to the world that he got past all of them and that it was nothing but luck that it went off on the ramp?
Would they?
I don’t think so.
That may not be the exact scenario, but there is something that is not being admitted to and that is why the hair spray story that was implausible is now replaced by the primer story that is also implausible.
So neither the reporter nor the TSA mouthpiece is a reloader and we end up with BS.