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kleinbl00  ·  3194 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security

'tis.

The thing the TSA took away from me? smaller than my finger.

Two of my most prized possessions are a pair of 50 (not .50) caliber practice rounds, used for loading practice during WWII. They're made out of rock maple and loaded with bismuth to approximate the real thing so that loaders could get good at shelling Japanese submarines. They look very much like this:

And despite the fact that I bought them on a trip, and despite the fact that the gun that would fire them (if they were real) looks like this

I opted to have them shipped.

Because TSA.