Would a firearm set off store security scanners?

Some folks have been known to take the sec. tab off of something and slip it into a woman's purse of the hood of a guy's jacket.
 
Call it the rebel in me, when those things go off, 9 times out of 10 I just keep on walking. If they ran after me and asked me to stop I would, but they hardly ever do.
 
They're detecting RFID tags in merchandise. Unless you're a shoplifter ignore them. Your gun is not what's setting it off. It may be your cell phone or magnetic strips on your credit cards in your wallet or a RFID tag in some article of clothing you bought and it was not deactivated. Some stores will crank the sensitivity way up thinking that it will work better but all it does is give useless false alarms. Keep on walking.
 
They're detecting RFID tags in merchandise. Unless you're a shoplifter ignore them. Your gun is not what's setting it off. It may be your cell phone or magnetic strips on your credit cards in your wallet or a RFID tag in some article of clothing you bought and it was not deactivated. Some stores will crank the sensitivity way up thinking that it will work better but all it does is give useless false alarms. Keep on walking.
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Read the above. RFID and security tag technologies are not the same. One uses radio frequency tags; one uses magnetic tags. ...There's a HUGE difference between how they operate, and what they're intended to do. ;)
 
Some places *do* use metal detectors. Besides most local state buildings and the county courthouse, I've set off detectors in a museum and several businesses. Oh, and the usual hassle at airports, before I gave up on those.

I have a steel rod in one leg, courtesy of a crackhead driver. The rod has caused much "security" excitement over the years.

My watch and eyeglasses (which say they're titanium, but who really knows?) have caused detectors to freak out. So has my wife's bridgework. Much puffing and posturing mall-ninja attitude when she refused to take her teeth out so they could inspect them.

Any more, if the detectors go off I just keep walking. Maybe one time out of five or six, someone will ask me to stop. If they're polite, I will.
 
My watch and eyeglasses (which say they're titanium, but who really knows?) have caused detectors to freak out.
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Not sure about the eyeglasses, but the shell of your watch is titanium. The works, battery casing, band pins, etc are almost certainly not. Doesn't matter anyway as all metal will create a magnetic disturbance.
Magnetic field creates current in the metal and that creates a second magnetic field which is detected. Iron creates a lot better field, but all metals create a field. Depends how sensitive the machine is set.
 
I used to be a mischievous young man... I would drop those tags in my wife's purse... or the purse of other shoppers... or place them on shopping cart frames... or in dry food good boxes...:p

Gotta keep the "People Greeter" hoppin' ya' know...:D

Brent
 
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