Some of you firearms experts clue me in......on another forum I'm a member of (non-Jeep related) a question came up about mercury being in ammunition and the concern of magnetic type holders and holsters. Now, if I remember my high school science right, mercury is NON-magnetic.....right? So, when then would there be a concern about having a magnetic device around ammunition or a firearm? The reason I ask is because a local deputy told a forum member that magnets around ammunition could cause it to go off. Any truth to any of this?

Thanks.

 

Only if the magnet were shaped like a firing pin and hit the primer with sufficient force to detonate...

 

Exactly...........or if the magnet was able to generate enough heat someway to ignite the powder....wierd

 

Magnets could stick to steel cased or steel core ammo, but not anything I know of would cause them to go off.

Jason

 

If you hit the primer hard enough with a magnet, then it MAY go off.

 

That's what I was thinkin yall. Thanks.

 

 

This should be submitted to Mythbusters. I've never heard of anything remotely like this occurring.