Reid bill would require background checks to purchase explosive powders

The Hill ^ | April 24, 2013

[opentalk]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require background checks to be run on anyone buying explosive powder, a reaction to last week's Boston Marathon bombing.

Reid introduced the bill, S. 792, for Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who has been out sick for much of the year. But in a press statement, Lautenberg said the Boston bombing shows that background checks are needed for explosive materials.

"It defies common sense that anyone, even a terrorist, can walk into a store in America and buy explosive powders without a background check or any questions asked," Lautenberg said Tuesday. "Requiring a background check for an explosives permit is a small price to pay to ensure the safety of our communities.

[hal ogen]

Oxygen can be pretty dangerous too. Maybe the LIB morons can limit that somehow when they also do their CO2 taxes. Could LIBs be any more ignorant and worthless?

[Wurlitzer]

“Guess you’ll have to have a license to buy Roman candles and firecrackers this Independence Day, or perhaps there will be no more “independence” to celebrate anyway.”

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Already the case in NY. Firecrackers are illegal for the average slave, aka NY Citizen.

[concerned about politics]

Thanks for posting the blog entry opentalk. Tried to move it myself, but it came out too small.

[lacrew]

Get ready for the assault on the 4th of July.

The patriotic nature of it makes leftists uneasy...and the fireworks are racist or dangerous or something.

[ThunderSleeps]

Is he familiar with the notion of a dust explosion?

Self-important Stasi DHS official: You're going to need a background check to buy that.

Me: But it's just some flour, I'm going to bake Christmas cookies!?

Self-important Stasi DHS official {into radio mic}: Code red! Code red! Aisle 3 - we have a suspected right-wing Christian here. Code red! Code red!...

[taxcontrol]

Wow, gonna have to have a background check to buy:

Sugar
Flour
Aluminum Oxide (common grit for sand paper)
flares
etc

[Lazamataz]

HEY NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION, HOW’S THAT ‘B’ RATING YOU GAVE REID WORKING OUT FOR YA?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Anything they want. Baby powder will explode when ejected in a fine suspension.

[Lazamataz]

Reid introduced the bill, S. 792, for Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who has been out sick for much of the year. But in a press statement, Lautenberg said the Boston bombing shows that background checks are needed for explosive materials.

The day Lautenberg dies, I will celebrate.

[ThunderSleeps]

How about background checks for gas? Some of the most powerful explosives are FAEs - fuel/air explosives. The only real trick is figuring out a rapid dispersal scheme...

[barefoot_hiker]

Utter nonsense. Either of the Boston bombers would have passed a background check and if not, they would find some who did and get them to buy whatever they needed. Just like none of the gun control laws proposed and/or being passed (at the state level) would have done anything to prevent the recent mass shootings.

The statists want background checks so they can monitor and record law-abiding citizens. Simple as that. Anything else as a stated purposed is a lie to fool the low-info sheeples.

[taxcontrol]

And it already comes with the “bb’s” needed for shrapnel

[Cobra64]

Bullets don’t. Cartridges do.

[varyouga]

“Pretty soon we will have to pass a background check to buy gasoline.”

Here’s an idea. How about deep background checks for anyone coming into this country?

[traderrob6]

When I was a kid we used to pack matchheads into a BB gun CO2 container light a fuse and get the he!! away.

Amazing how big the explosion was.

[Wurlitzer]

First ban what is the most dangerous to the citizens. Ban Islam!

It is not a religion but a death cult designed to destroy civilization and have us all live like the camel impregnating scum in the middle east.

Mo-Ham-Mud was lower than the crud on the soles of our shoes and is the product of a tramp mother bedding down with a pig.

This reminds me of a tramp mother bedding down with a Kenyan communist and raising the spawn of that devil coupling with as many communists as she could sleep with.

[PghBaldy]

Can’t matches be used to make bombs?

[concerned about politics]

Just another Democrat assault on legal gun owners.

"Never waste a good crises" (real, imaginary, or manufactured).

[Venturer]

Here’s an idea. How about deep background checks for anyone coming into this country?

Or for anyone running for President.

[opentalk]

My re-post of it is cut off also....very creepy, especially that we are now learning powers-that-be had information ahead to prevent this...and now ---just as scripted--- Reid introduces bill, S. 792