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Owner: Bomber bought fireworks from my store
Fosters Daily Democrat ^ | 24 apr 2013 | Jim Haddadin

Posted on 04/24/2013 5:53:33 AM PDT by PilotDave

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Fireworks control Bill to be introduced by feinstien today? Probabaly put it on his EBT card.
1 posted on 04/24/2013 5:53:33 AM PDT by PilotDave
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Would black powder be as powerful?


2 posted on 04/24/2013 5:56:16 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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That’s it dammit, we’re banning fireworks! We gotta get them out of the hands of the evil right wingers before they kill somebody! We’ll be bustin’ down your door next week! RAT TATATATATATAT!


3 posted on 04/24/2013 5:57:23 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: PilotDave

Sounds like we need background checks to buy fireworks.


4 posted on 04/24/2013 5:58:08 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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Frank Lautenberg already beat the bitch to it. He’s proposing a bill to require a background check for the purcahse of “explosive powders”.

You just knew this was coming.


5 posted on 04/24/2013 5:59:14 AM PDT by technically right
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Would black powder be as powerful as the gun powder in the fireworks?


6 posted on 04/24/2013 5:59:17 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do ithat when I have a fire.)
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To: technically right

explosive powders? corn dust, aluminum, and so on

what about explosive vapors?


7 posted on 04/24/2013 6:00:39 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do ithat when I have a fire.)
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I’m thinking that these were not used in the bomb, but were the ‘improvised hand grenades’ that the two yutes were throwing at police.

It would be easy to wrap these ‘mortar’ shells (actually tennis ball sized and shaped with a long, long fuse sticking out of them) with various metal fragments and some duck (or duct, if you prefer) tape. Likely they also shortened the fuse.


8 posted on 04/24/2013 6:04:42 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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Fireworks powder is basically black powder. It is designed to go boom all at once and therefore is best suited for bombs. Modern gunpowder explodes in a more controlled fashion, in addition to being smokeless, and is much more tunable for sending a bullet down the barrel.


9 posted on 04/24/2013 6:05:43 AM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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Depends on the fireworks. They use all kinds of different materials to get the colorful effects.

If you put gunpowder in a closed container the effect won’t be significantly different then blackpowder. At least not at the small scale.


10 posted on 04/24/2013 6:10:55 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do ithat when I have a fire.)
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Ban welfare now! These bastards were collecting welfare and undoubtedly used our tax money to buy the powder, pressure cookers and backpacks.


11 posted on 04/24/2013 6:12:27 AM PDT by barefoot_hiker
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“Ban welfare now!”
Welfare control! And don’t forget the Colorado Theatre shooter was living off of student grants... All taxpayer funded terror. Better check on Newtown shooter.


12 posted on 04/24/2013 6:15:53 AM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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Yeah, I can see how this is gonna flush out. Modern smokeless powders are classified as ‘propellants’ while real black powder is an explosive. Because of that, those who sell it already have additional regulations as to how it is stored, etc.

Because of the regulations, many suppliers quit carrying it, and in many places it is hard to find original black powder.

The black powder substitutes do not work well with flintlocks.


13 posted on 04/24/2013 6:19:44 AM PDT by Rockhound (My dog ate my tagline)
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“Would black powder be as powerful as the gun powder in the fireworks?”

The fireworks powder would be slower and would be less suitable than real black powder. I think he just shot this stuff off as the explosive used in the bombs was high speed explosive. They apparently had access to military grade explosives and used them against the police.

Black powder is a low speed explosive and most people over rate the power of it. In the breech of a gun it works fine but in a bomb is not nearly as effective as military grade stuff.


14 posted on 04/24/2013 6:59:38 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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He may have intended the fireworks for some kind of celebration.

We heard ‘military grade’ explosives but we probably will never know. The improvised grenades they were throwing at police may have been these fireworks mortar shells with the launch charge removed.


15 posted on 04/24/2013 7:02:26 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do ithat when I have a fire.)
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To: technically right
Frank Lautenberg already beat the bitch to it. He’s proposing a bill to require a background check for the purcahse of “explosive powders”.

Will he PLEAAAASSSEEE just DIE.

16 posted on 04/24/2013 7:24:17 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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****a background check for the purchase of “explosive powders”.***

Does this mean everyone who buys five lb of wheat flour will now get a background check due to grain explosions?

Years ago I saw an old military book on IEDs that showed a bomb in which the main explosive was flour.


17 posted on 04/24/2013 7:49:28 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Do we now register our pressure cookers?)
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what about explosive vapors?

What? We'll have to sign paperwork to buy a can of beans? Or have pilot-lights installed in all underwear?

18 posted on 04/24/2013 7:51:40 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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Would black powder be as powerful?

In a sealed, bolted down pressure cooker, yes.

19 posted on 04/24/2013 8:46:16 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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Black powder really worked well in the exploding mortar and artillary shells at Vicksburg. I believe black powder would work extremly well in a “pressure cooker bomb”. When I first saw the explosion I thought it mat be a black powder bomb. Now the’re probably going to come for my Pyrodex.


20 posted on 04/24/2013 9:02:10 AM PDT by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones.)
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