Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
That's why I didn't want a live one. They're actually dangerous
As in it could go off by dropping it? What’s the mechanism of ignition?
In my younger and more, uh, experimental days I once held an EMPTY, primed shotgun shell with a pair of vise grips and tried to set the primer off with a ball peen. Not my shining moment in firearms education, granted, but I certainly wouldn’t call a primer “sensitive” thanks to that experiment.