[Mark Felton]

"All liberty flows from the barrel of a gun"

[Flint]

This is just a form of TNT, it is commonly called "gun cotton". It has been around for about 100 years. It was the primary source of explosives for artillery rounds for a very long time. There is nothing new about it. If they could come across a stash of WW II artillery shells they could take it out of them and use it. They don't need to invent the wheel again. Just use what is out there. It has a distinctive smell and a bomb sniffing dog could pick it up from 100 yards away.

[BallandPowder]

Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!

Intelligence officials have confiscated Al-Qaeda manuals and picked up several indications that the network is attempting to create a chemical called nitrocellulose to fashion explosive devices that could be smuggled aboard jetliners, The Washington Post quoted Homeland officials as saying.

<>Intelligence officials<> my *ss. Guncotton is one of the easiest explosives to make and use...

[Mr.Atos]

Isn't this just another indication that anything evil that can be conceived, can and will be perpetrated by those that are willing to surrender their humanity for a twisted ideology. Some years back a Swiss man went on a rampage with his HK AR walking down the street and into his neighbors homes systematically exterminating them. Is this the next thing on the list? If anyone has read Cooper's, Last of the Mohican's and can recall the beginning of the massacre at Fort William Henry, one might begin to understand the mentality of the enemy we are dealing with... if you don't already. Cooper used a degree of literary license to depict Indians as animalistic savages. Cooper was not, however, describing a specific enemy, but used the event, rather, to illustrate how a malevolent hatred can rot the mind and turn humans into sub-animalistic destructive monsters.

Monster do indeed exist. They are among us now, in many forms. WE created them, when we surrendered discrimination to tolerance without judgment.

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[LibKill]

Many common household chemicals can be used to make explosives. All this is nothing new.

It is a reminder that we cannot negotiate with evil.

[Some hope remaining.]

Did someone say nitro-cellulite bombs?

[Atlas Sneezed]

This sounds like nothing much more than gunpowder pipe bombs.

Be wary of this leading to restrictions on gunpowder and ammunition purchases.

[Billthedrill]

Well, you can make a dandy bomb out of the stuff, but you have to pack it in the pipe really tight. Really, really tight. I'd recommend a cold chisel and a ball-peen hammer. You can tell when it's tight enough by holding a cigarette lighter to it...

[wideminded]

On a TV show about fireworks roughly a year ago, they profiled a guy who has started a company to use nitrocellulose rather than black powder in fireworks. The nitrocellulose burns without smoke and allows the fireworks to have sharper, brighter colors.

[wideminded]

On a TV show about fireworks roughly a year ago, they profiled a guy who has started a company to use nitrocellulose rather than black powder in fireworks. The nitrocellulose burns without smoke and allows the fireworks to have sharper, brighter colors.

[wideminded]

On a TV show about fireworks roughly a year ago, they profiled a guy who has started a company to use nitrocellulose rather than black powder in fireworks. The nitrocellulose burns without smoke and allows the fireworks to have sharper, brighter colors.