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National Guardsman arrested with 48 bombs in car
AP via Kingsport TN Times News ^ | DAN SEWELL

Posted on 01/08/2014 1:27:46 PM PST by don-o

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To: DBrow

The difference between high explosives and low explosives is that low explosives must be contained in order to explode.

Gun powder is a low explosive because if you just pour a trail of gunpowder in a line across a sidewalk and light it, the gunpowder will burn instead of explode...but if you wrap gunpowder inside a container such as for a firework, it will explode instead of simply burn.

In contrast, high explosives need no container in order to explode. C4 is a high explosive. Nitroglycerin is a high explosive.

The ATF doesn’t determine what is high or low...that’s the role of physics to decide.

If flash powder blows up without being in a container, then it is a high explosive. If not, then it is a low explosive.


21 posted on 01/08/2014 3:06:14 PM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: trisham

Should have been a jockey.


22 posted on 01/08/2014 3:09:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: trisham

That’s exactly what I noticed!


23 posted on 01/08/2014 3:09:28 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: BenLurkin

I guess so. I’m five inches taller than he is. I don’t know any women that short.


24 posted on 01/08/2014 3:09:52 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: don-o

Bombs are definitely “arms.” That is 2Amd material. The 2nd does not make exceptions for unfavored types of arms, or for mental state, for that matter, or prior convictions or anything else..


25 posted on 01/08/2014 3:10:48 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: M. Thatcher

Had enough of your BogusLawSkis!


26 posted on 01/08/2014 3:16:40 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: don-o

Did I hear right, they said 43 years old?

Damn, boy didn’t age well.


27 posted on 01/08/2014 3:38:18 PM PST by Eaker (Sweat dries, blood clots and bones heal so suck it up buttercup.)
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To: Southack

“The ATF doesn’t determine what is high or low”

In this case, they did. Check the regulations, it has nothing to do with physics. Their reasoning was, since flash powder is responsible for most explosives injuries, it “needed regulation” so they declared it to be HE, for the purposes of controlling it.


28 posted on 01/09/2014 4:58:34 AM PST by DBrow
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To: GeronL
If this is an example of today's Army National Guard personnel then I would be afraid that the troops would not hesitate to fire on civilians, when they even have no respect for their dead.

Wisconsin Guard member suspended for posting offensive casket photo

By Meg Jones and Lydia Mulvany of the Journal Sentinel Feb. 18, 2014

A Wisconsin National Guard member who posted a picture showing soldiers goofing off while surrounding a casket during training for funeral honors details has been indefinitely suspended from the program that handles military funerals in Wisconsin.

Find this article at:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/report-guardswoman-suspended-for-posting-offenssive-photo-b99208298z1-246003331.html

29 posted on 02/19/2014 5:48:16 AM PST by KeyLargo
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