Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27821571-20160915183730/@comment-9782468-20160928120730

@Georgio, for it to get magnetic in the first place it'd have to be manipulated to collide against each other. And we have never seen Gaara do that. He just straight controls it. Magnet Release is not what Gaara is using to control sand.

And it's not magnetic in a traditional sense. I reckon it's just like how static electricity will make a balloon stick to you.