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 ...
Ping.
No name yet.
Hundreds of Primers? Wow, that’s like two dollars worth.
Yep.
Last year Christmas the reports were a passenger set off some fire crackers while over Detroit.
The press could not get the answers from the fedgov.
Passengers on the plane broke the story of the underwear bombers’ attempt.
“Authorities did not specify his previous nationality.”
hmmmmm, must not be Jamaican or Amish....that leaves...
exactly, for something that is sold in boxes of 1,000 and 5,000 its not very much.
sounds like the media spin when police arrest someone with “an arsenal and thousands of rounds of ammo” when its someone with a two .22 rifles and 3 of the walmart 550 round $8 boxes.
And that anything over that is in excess.
“Authorities did not specify his previous nationality.”
hmmmmm, must not be Jamaican or Amish....that leaves...
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Methodist.
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“Wow, that’s like two dollars worth.”
You can take ammo in luggage, but not primers, percussion caps, or the like.
This guy made a mistake, fer shur!
It does not matter how many at this point. He had “some” and “some” went POP!
Of course that is what I was thinking, do you think I am a Racist......sulking disturbed....whimpering as I scamper away
Is this some kind of code?
Don’t you have to question how gently the baggage handler handled the baggage to cause a primer to detonate. Were the primers packaged or loosly thrown in a can or box?
Yes - We will soon be hearing stories of robotic squids destroying Beijing...
No, it was update 2. Followed update 1.
More info added by reuters.
No code, just the media once again displaying their abysmal ignorance of firearms and ammunition issues. And, of course, their all-too-predictable tendancy to go in heat at the mere mention of guns and ammunition.
I wondered too. You usually must work to get a primer to go off.
Even ramp rats, I thought previously, could not get that kind of force.
Aside- I knew a guy who made bullet clocks for competition awards. Typically a circle of .38 shells with undimpled primers and a clock movement from Micheal’s or the like on a nice stained wooden plaque. He took .38 shells, cleaned them up, and pressed in “inerted” primers. I asked him about his “inerting” process, and he said he put the primers in a 6” Griswold frying pan, put a “spatter screen” over it, and heated them on a gas stove until they popped! I never felt comfortable eating burgers over there unless they came off the grille...
*snicker*
I can’t think of a method of accidentally igniting a primer in a bag... If UPS is able to handle 5000 in a box,hundreds in a bag should not be an issue. The accidental ignition story stinks like a search for drugs that came up with primers.
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