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My 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 b
by jemfinch 16y ago
My 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.