Originally Posted by zinnanti

No prob. A claymore is a land mine type device that is designed to thrust up about 5 feet in the air, then detonate a huge explosion showering people with thousands of pieces of lethal shrapnel.

In other words, it would have ruined the day for a lot of people.

But, TSA finds all kinds of stuff like that coming back from the war - grenades, flares, etc.

You know Richard Buss (Rochard)? He's probably the best to give a good description of what it can do. He was a Marine.