[Ichneumon]

But I *really* want to know why the bombs had price tags on them.

If they were actually "bombs", the price tags don't make much sense, but they do if he was actually making homemade fireworks for sale.

[Catspaw]

I don't think we're going to know anything until the local news tonight. I don't know if our local stations will cover it--except to put on a story done by one of the Milwaukee stations. They're got enough to cover, what with the kidnapping and murder of a gas station owner in a nearby town that's even smaller than Hartford.

[Daus]

If they were actually "bombs", the price tags don't make much sense

Well, you've never been to Hartford's Farmers Market. Tomatos, onions, corn, and Pipe Bombs... They are in season, don't ya know.

[piasa]

The price tags could just have been those already on the components when he purchased them.