[driftdiver]

I always wondered what would happen if you bought that stuff on amazon.

[from occupied ga]

Fireworks making materials with the usual “we take this very seriously (because we have to justify our jobs somehow.)” crap. Every kid I knew when I was growing up “blew things up.” We used M-80s and it was great fun except my friend blew up his dad’s newly planted rosebushes while his dad was looking out the window - not much fun there for a while.

[x1stcav]

I’m sure glad I grew up back in the ‘50s and ‘60s. We were always making model rockets with our own propellants and our own black powder.

Made our own fire crackers and cherry bombs.

We’d all go to prison today.

This used to be a good country.

[smokingfrog]

Sounds like he might have been planning something similar to the Boston bomber brothers. Who are his close friends? Is he another immigrant living on the dole?

[Wolfie]

No bid deal. Unless he killed some people, then it would be, “holy crap, why didn’t somebody DO something?”.

[Uncle Chip]

Pretty soon people will be afraid to fertilize their yard for fear of getting a visit.

[randita]

PSU ping

[sten]

any explosive, or its components, are now being called ‘weapons of mass destruction’??

if I have a can of gas and a rag in my garage, can they hit me with a similar charge?

I’m pretty sure they’re off on their definitions by a few orders of magnitude

[Mister Da]

All reports call the guy a Russian, but Russia is a big place.

I'd like to know what part of Russia he comes from. Dagestan, perhaps?

[bmwcyle]

bttt

[razorback-bert]

I and my friends use to buy potassium perchlorate and nitrate in the local drug store.

Is Chinese potassium perchlorate more evil than others?

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m sure it’s the dream of every young Russian lad to one day enroll at Penn State-Altoona....

[grundle]

It’s s typo. He was building a bong, not a bomb.