He PURCHASED the stuff - he lived off a trust fund from his father - over a million a year.
So the question begs, if you buy a stick of dynamite or grow lights - it's REPORTED.
Is not this stuff?
Ingredients for thermite, perfectly legal, search youtube there about a thousand videos of people making that stuff in their backyards and burning up fry pans and blowing up propane tanks. It's the American (redneck) way.
Why did he have stuff like this? Who cares?
Why do I have an M-1 Garand? Because I CAN.
A million bucks a year from a trust fund indicates a pretty large trust. Who is his dad? And why was this guy engaged in terroist activities? I want to know if he had any leanings like T. McVeigh, who though portrayed as a loyal nutcase American, really had spent way too much time with Abu Saayef to be anything other than a lily white patsy for the Islamists.