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I don't fully understand how he made it to Customs without someone catching the ammunition earlier. I can't recall a travel experience where I went through Cus
by jat850 16y ago
I don't fully understand how he made it to Customs without someone catching the ammunition earlier.
I can't recall a travel experience where I went through Customs before going through security first. As Customs occurs at port of entry, I assume he would have passed through security in Delhi. I suppose security could have been lax or complacent there, but it still seems an odd thing to have made it through a scanner first.
- jemfinch 16y agoMy belt buckle has much more metal than a shell casing, and it never sets off the metal detectors at airports. Shell casings have less metal in them than the buttons on my button-fly jeans. EDIT: I was mistaken, he did say it was an unused bullet, so it was more than a shell casing.
- jat850 16y agoYeah, that's a good point. I was thinking more along the lines of an X-ray machine (see, I don't even know enough about security processes to know if that's the right terminology) where they reveal outlines of denser objects, rather than the pass-through metal detector itself.
- gvb 16y agoHe actually says "bullet", I would interpret that literally - just the bullet, not a full shell and definitely not any gunpowder.
- jat850 16y agoThat's possible; if so, the word "unused" threw me off. But your interpretation could also be right too.
- ceejayoz 16y agoVirtually everyone I know would call a "cartridge" a "bullet", just as they might confuse "clip" and "magazine".
- lincolnq 16y agoEducate me - what's the difference between a cartridge and a bullet? What's the difference between a clip and a magazine? Edit: found answer to my first question below. The bullet is the inert mass. The cartridge is a bullet plus casing plus gunpowder / other energetic material.
- ceejayoz 16y agoClip vs. magazine: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/02/21/clip-vs-magazine/ http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/02/21/clip-vs-magazi...
- lincolnq 16y agoHuh. So a clip is a bunch of cartridges with something connecting them, whereas a magazine is an enclosed box of cartridges. Or at least, that's what I got out of the link. That one is (still) legitimately confusing to me. It didn't directly help (I didn't notice what was strange / funny about the image until I followed through to the "Gun Zone" link).
- vl 16y agoIt appears that it was in the pants, which were in the bag. Bag could be checked in and go though different check entirely.
- jedbrown 16y agoThis occurred immediately after his passport was stamped, indicating that it actually took place at immigration, not customs. (At almost all airports, you go through baggage claim after immigration (but before customs, obviously). So the bullet was probably carried on, and thus went through security, but small items like this are missed all the time in the x-ray scanner.