Yeah and everyone would get the cavity search too because when it comes to the TSA/DHS they think that everyone would be stuffed full of them too from granny to the 2 day old baby because...

TSA/DHS sees every passenger as already being guilty for wanting to travel by plane.

What the TSA doesn't get is that they have put themselves in a position where they must "out of an abundance of caution" inspect the body cavities of 6 month old children.

By adopting Chicken Little rather than Patrick Henry as their Patron Saint there is no low to which they will not stoop.

Damnit, TSA, you should be seeking to partner with the overall US population, and not with the inane "see something, say something" campaign either.

Start with a body cavity search of all TSA/DHS employees to make sure their heads are not inserted there.

Not bullets, but primers -- they are distinct parts of a cartridge (shell/casing, primer, powder, projectile/bullet/pellets).
Unlikely. They are routinely sent via UPS surface & quite safe in their original packaging which prevents the primers from coming into contact with one another. I have a about 10,000 of them (give or take a few) and am not the least bit concerned about accidental explosions.

The hazard class denoted on the hazmat label is 1.4S:

More stuff exploding in checked luggage
 

Explosives in checked luggage, never seen by the TSA, which was too busy checking passengers for shampoo.

Unfortunately, the primers detonating in the luggage will not be seen as evidence of just how silly the whole "securing the flight" nonsense has gotten, but as evidence of how more money should be funneled into the TSA so that it can be wasted on hiring idiots to carry out half-witted procedures that they're never properly trained on in the first place - or worse, buy more expensive toys with shiny screens and blinking lights that will end up warehoused as "not functional" like the "explosive-detecting air machines" that got shelved.

I will bet my naughty bits that Janet Napolitano and John Pistole learned well from Chertoff, and are positioning themselves to make a hefty profit from frightening the sheeple.

First thought to be hairspray ...

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ing-scare.html

Makes me wonder whether it still would have happened if the handlers exercised a modicum of care as they threw bags around...

Assuming the primers were in the original packaging there is almost no way they could detonate. This sounds fishy! Unless the guy wanted it to explod easily. Very strange. Jim

Or the packing was disturbed. As I recall, in individual packages of 100, the box is sort of a slide out like a match box with 10 rows of 10 in a plastic tray. A tray of 100 is usually in a box of 1000. Anything less than that would be an opened container. A box that slides out like a match box I wouldn't consider secure. I wonder if each individual primer will be a separate legal charge?

Nevertheless, not smart to pack them open or not.

Of course the effect here will be a ban on checked hairspray and aerosols, as primers already are not supposed to be in luggage, out of an abundance of caution.

Which probably means they weren't in their original packaging.

Primers are actually better-protected from shock and impact when inserted in a cartridge case - the case surrounds most of the primer and shields it from impacts. Only the back of the primer is exposed, and in order to discharge the cartridge, you need to strike it hard with a narrow/pointy object (pistols hit the primers with the firing pin, which has a diameter smaller than the primer, to set off the cartridge). When the primer is in the open, the explosive mix in the primer cup is open to atmosphere, or, say, being hit by a pen tip or something. Yeah, it almost seems a little counter-intuitive that they're less of a hazard when assembled into a cartridge, but that's just the way it is.

Moderators, maybe best to merge this thread with

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ing-scare.html

I used to smack exposed primers just sitting on the ground with a baseball bat - just to hear the "bang". The TSA are wolves hidden in fools clothing.