Ping.
No name yet.
Hundreds of Primers? Wow, that’s like two dollars worth.
Is this some kind of code?
Bullet primers. LOL.
How does that work?
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?
So once again our multi-billion-dollar citizen groping brigade has caught... someone with no links to terrorism. As usual.
Have any of these bozos ever caught an actual terrorist? It seems to me that those guys invariably get through our sophisticated "security" and are either subdued by passengers while attempting to light their shoes, or they burn off their wee-wees while trying to explode their underwear.
Oh, but I forget. Liberal "security" isn't really about actual security, it's about making people feeeeeeeeel "more secure."
I guess someone decided that irradiation and sexual assault by government officials imparts a comforting sense of safety to the typical American.
What the heck is a "nationalized" citizen? Do they mean "naturalized," perhaps? Or is the government now seizing citizens without their consent?
A "nationalized" citizen carrying "bullet primers," sheesh... Reuters isn't even pretending they know what they are talking about, they're just burping out mangled phrases with the intent of triggering pavlovian responses.
I don’t know about Jamaica, but some Caribbean Islands have made private ownership of firearms / ammunition illegal.
"The bag was being taken out by a baggage handler, he put it on the ground and something ignited and hit him in the shoe," Leverock told Reuters. "One of the primers ignited and then they all ignited," he added.
Something hit him in the shoe? Sympathetic detonation of primers?
Crisis - next step, DHS to ban “explosive” primers.
Still no ID released I see....
Orville Andrew Braham
I think that if you actually know anything about guns, you are not allowed to be a “journalist”, and an editor that does fact-checking must get sacked without warning.
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“But investigators discovered that hundreds of .45-caliber ammunition primers, used with bullets, had detonated within the suitcase on impact, triggering the explosion. A primer is the back end of a bullet, the “spark plug” that provides the spark that ignites the gunpowder.
In the second checked suitcase, investigators said they discovered hundreds of .45-caliber ammunition primers in a plastic bag concealed in the suitcase lining. Parts of a disassembled ammunition reloading press were found in the lining, in a zippered compartment and wrapped in items of clothing.”
“Bullet parts”! LOL!