What does a bullet band tattoo around his thigh mean?

Answer 1

Literally it could mean anything, and anything he tells you it means could be truth or fiction.

With the proliferation of skin art, the meanings or intended meanings of many tattoos has become blurred. There are a few exceptions:

• Tears off the corner of the left eye is an indication of murders committed by incarcerated felons.
• Four leaf clovers or shamrocks is an indication of affiliation with white supremacists. As is the swastika, but this is less enforced.
• Dragons, snakes, black arm rings, and Shogun & Samurai images, all in bright colors and stylized imagery are indications of potential Yakuza affiliation.
• Initials such as MS13, GD, LL, LK, and other street gangs are common for affiliations with these organizations as well.

What is important is that unaffiliated wearers of gang and organization tats is an invitation to violence. Those who hazard decorating their skin with gang art who have no affiliation with a gang take the chance of having the tattoo removed, either by knife or heat source such as red hot steel, mark themselves as a target for elimination.