Imagine that you have saved up for an African Safari. It has cost you ten thousand dollars for the plane tickets, a professional hunter, lodging, dining, and everything else. You are on your way through the airport, get on your plane, deboard at your destination and find out there is a T.S.A. sticker on your luggage. You check your weapon case.. everything looks fine. You check your other luggage... son of a B*itch !! Your ammo is gone.
Yup... the T.S.A. checkers has been confiscating (or possibly stealing) ammo out of bags. Now it's gotten worse, though. There seems to be a pattern..everything over 50 caliber is being confiscated.
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4002
Cartridges like the .577 Nitro Express have been around for a long time now, over 130 years, but they are very expensive. The.577 Nitro Express with a 750-grain bullet has about 7,000 ft-lbs of energy, about 3.5 times that of a 30-06, and 6 times that of a 223 Remington. Bullets run from about 8 to 20 dollars each...yes, the high end ones are about $19 and change per cartridge. So, if someone steals a box of 10 or twenty from your bag, that's expensive to replace and let's face it, you cannot go into any Walmart or most gun stores to find this cartridge sitting on their shelves.
