Ammunition rattling around your suitcase?

[Anonymous]

I don't travel with ammunition, but for those that do, do you have it rattling around your suitcase? Do you not remove when arriving home or before packing your bag for a trip you don't need to be armed? Is this totally lacking in safe gun practices as it sounds?

Guy detained in Turks & Caicos for "stray" bullets in luggage.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/turks-and-caicos-ammo-prison-sentence-american-tourists/

[Anonymous]

OMG people are so dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG people are so dumb.

Soo dumb. But I admit I feel bad for him.

[Anonymous]

I sympathize a LOT. Ammunition is very safe by its very design. It is very easy to have a few stray cartridges packed in with some other gear that you simply forgot about. If you don't shoot or hunt, then of course you don't get this.

I made the same mistake traveling into Canada en route to Alaska when I was 17 (late 90s). I had, say, half a dozen .22 cartridges rattling around in a box that contained other hunting gear. Would have sworn I had no ammunition if you had asked me--I simply didn't know. Canadian customs found them and gave me the third degree and tore apart my car looking for a gun. Then they waved me through.

The T&C law is stupid as f*ck.

[Anonymous]

The people calling for his release on social media are the same ones who who thought Brittney Griner being held in Russia over her vape pen "deserved it" and "just follow the law!"

Hypocrites.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I'm usually lenient over such things. I don't hunt, but I have ADHD, so I can totally understand how little things can be forgotten in a suitcase.

[Anonymous]

I don't have sympathy for him OR Brittany Griner. At least I'm not a hypocrite. Don't carry around drugs and ammo. Its not that hard people!

[Anonymous]

Ha ha, watch out for someone discovering they have ammo on the plane and then popping it into your bag!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't have sympathy for him OR Brittany Griner. At least I'm not a hypocrite. Don't carry around drugs and ammo. Its not that hard people!

Would that you were. You're much worse, a self-righteous prig.

[Anonymous]

I hope he gets the full 12 years.

[Anonymous]

I once threw my backpack on the TSA X-ray conveyor belt forgetting I had a spent cartridge from a cannon used by old Ironsides. I had gone out on a sail and got one as a souvenir. It looked exactly like what you think it would under X-ray - a huge metal bullet and smelled like gunpowdery stuff. State police weren’t thrilled with me but did offer to hold it for me so I could pick it back up when I came back to Boston so I could ship it home. They let me get on the flight anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sympathize a LOT. Ammunition is very safe by its very design. It is very easy to have a few stray cartridges packed in with some other gear that you simply forgot about. If you don't shoot or hunt, then of course you don't get this.

I made the same mistake traveling into Canada en route to Alaska when I was 17 (late 90s). I had, say, half a dozen .22 cartridges rattling around in a box that contained other hunting gear. Would have sworn I had no ammunition if you had asked me--I simply didn't know. Canadian customs found them and gave me the third degree and tore apart my car looking for a gun. Then they waved me through.

The T&C law is stupid as f*ck.

No, it’s not. The island has been suffering with gun violence and the government is cracking down on entry of guns and ammo. Smart if you asked me. People “forgetting” ammo in suitcases seems like a uniquely American phenomenon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people calling for his release on social media are the same ones who who thought Brittney Griner being held in Russia over her vape pen "deserved it" and "just follow the law!"

Hypocrites.

Exactly! White dude breaking the law is just an innocent victim of a bad law.

[Anonymous]

They are both victims of bad laws.