Posted on 04/25/2013 5:45:42 AM PDT by 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.
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or the explosive powder in 12GA shells, .22LR, .223, etc
According to the 137 day theory, expect something big, and event, around the 30th? 4/30/2013.
Lautenberg's bill would require a background check for the purchase of any of these powders.
Lousenberg's real agenda here is to eliminate the practice of reloading ammunition. In many Turd World socialist hellholes, the sort of places that 0bama and his cronies wish to emulate, reloading is a capital offense.
They must have had this bill ready before hand.
BMFL
With the right air to flour mix, it is more explosive than most things.
I have seen grain bins blow up because of it
Kurt Vonnegut was a bit ahead of you ...
He has been out sick and may still be..Reid strategy to protect the rest of his pack from taking public backlash
Urbansurvival...
Please omit everything to this point if you publish this - just some background for you. Edit the rest as you see fit & keep me out of it ... my heartfelt thanks in advance.
My co-worker's brother was across the street from bomb #2, waiting for his girlfriend who was in the race. It was close to the time she was expected to appear, so he was one of those shooting video with his cell phone prior to the explosion.
Luckily neither he nor his girlfriend were close enough to be injured. Sometimes running slower has it's advantages.
Anyway, DHS came to brothers' house later (Thursday, I think), moved the video from his cell phone to his computer, questioned him a bit, then took their copy & left after several hours.
Brother swears they did not erase the file from his computer, though they 'had to' remove it from his cell phone to put it on his computer (wait - did I just step in something?).
The video, from co-workers' account, didn't show the person who dropped the backpack, but it did show the backpack at some point before the explosion.
So, he goes to view the video on his computer the next day - no file.
No file anywhere. Gone, gone gone.
Did they put in a Trojan Horse or some other back door? Pardon my rather stylish tinfoil hat cocked at an amusing, if somewhat rakish angle (RSTFHCAAAISRA), but I'm pretty sure the DHS made sure of that.
If I was him, I'd be nuking the HDD with a minimum of a 3-pass DOD-level wipe and re-installing everything & restoring from backups - not to mention getting a new cell phone & number.
Lesson learned: If you have a file of potential value like that, get it on a thumb drive/CD/DVD or three & mail them to several trustworthy folks and yourself (& maybe get it on YouTube if you feel adventurous) before you let anybody official know you have it.
Then just give them the damned phone at their office & walk away. Best regards... [name withheld on request]
I remember reading some Finn Aagard article and it was mentioned that this was the case in KENYA. Hmmmm.
For the record, smokeless powder is not technically an explosive. It’s considered a propellant. Black powder, on the other hand, is an explosive.
A bag of explosive Gold Medal Flour.Flour is highly explosive.
Before you make that bread you better have a permit to purchase that flour.
Unbuffered aspirin in large amounts and a microwave plus a procedure or two in between will create a very unstable high explosive, similar if not stronger than nitroglycerin.
So I’m going to have to have an ATF permit to buy coffee mate?
Don’t forget the sparklers.
Make a nice little bomb out of a handful of sparklers and some tape.
Yup. this is just 500 matchheads in a cardboard tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv-ABeicW_A
Put 50,000 or so in a sturdy pressure vessel and its a bomb.
I agree. And I do so because Islam is a totalitarian ideology with a political imperative that is violent, coercive, and supremacist. It should not be recognized as a religion until it reforms itself.
How about a background check for anyone from a Muslim country who applies for an F-1 student visa?
He's still alive?, or just merely brain dead?
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