# What were you THINKING?

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**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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Over in Beck’s thread about “Turks & Caicos Islands, luggage and bullets”, she’s wondering about travelers getting busted and sentenced for ammo in their luggage:

> [@Turks and Caicos Islands, luggage and bullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turks-and-caicos-islands-luggage-and-bullets/1005246/15):
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> The UK has extremely strict gun laws not just compared to the US (i’d assume that applies to their overseas territories too)

> [@Turks and Caicos Islands, luggage and bullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turks-and-caicos-islands-luggage-and-bullets/1005246/16):
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> This not about guns.

> [@Turks and Caicos Islands, luggage and bullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turks-and-caicos-islands-luggage-and-bullets/1005246/26):
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> Sure it is. Guns and ammo go together. For instance, in Canada, you need exactly the same permit to buy ammo as you need to buy a gun. T&C appears to take an even stricter viewpoint. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US is the only Western country that doesn’t require some sort of regulation for purchasing ammo.

> [@Turks and Caicos Islands, luggage and bullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turks-and-caicos-islands-luggage-and-bullets/1005246/30):
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> Of course there are regulations for buying ammo in the US.

> [@Turks and Caicos Islands, luggage and bullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turks-and-caicos-islands-luggage-and-bullets/1005246/31):
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> Treated in the same way as buying a gun?

> [@Turks and Caicos Islands, luggage and bullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turks-and-caicos-islands-luggage-and-bullets/1005246/32):
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> I’m not gonna get in a big gun law debate. It’s been done on the board a bunch.

So someone corrects her error (that ammo is different than guns in the eyes of the T&C laws) and she responds by saying she’s not “gonna” get into a big gun law debate? Why post if you’re “gonna” reject someone answering you? Why would anyone want to answer her if that’s the response they’re gonna get?

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