This made me think of the ad, "what's in your wallet."
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Unicorn wrote:
If the dog was also an explosive detection dog one the dog may have been able to detect the powder in the ammunition. This has been argued about if it's possible or not. If not, then the reason they alert on firearms would be that the handler instead of using the actual explosive training agent (as in small quantities of real explosives, so a pain in the ass to sign out, only the fifth Monday of the month if the one person who can sign it out is working that day), he was using a loaded mag. Some have stated that the dogs might learn to alert on the smell of the oil on the guns.
I work for a major European commercial roofing manufacturer. We have a PMMA product that uses a catylist made from a very powerful oxidizer. If we take that catalyst, or any partially uncured pmma samples with us when we fly, we stand the chance of getting pulled into the small room for interrogation for carrying explosives.