A 16-year-old local boy named Zachary Hicks who arrived in uniform was turned away because he had a folding knife.
Barbara Heetderts of Dallas was about to follow her husband through the screening when an officer found she had six spent shell casings. She was barred from entry.
"Why?" she asked. "It's empty brass cases."
"They're cartridges," the officer said.
"No, they're cases," she replied. "A cartridge has powder, a primer and a bullet in it."
"I'm saying you can't take them in," the officer said.
Her empty cases joined hundreds of knives, scissors and nail clippers at the kiosk. The line now stretched across the lobby, and the woman running the German Roasted Nuts stand on the far side began taking knives and placing them in white paper bags bearing the owner's name.