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Comments on: Guilty As Charged https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/08/12/guilty-as-charged/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:55:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/08/12/guilty-as-charged/comment-page-1/#comment-17196 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:55:57 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/08/12/guilty-as-charged/#comment-17196 They use a couple of crystals of TATP vice the fulminates these days. It’s applied wet and then wrapped, but it still requires a class one Federal explosives permit, as well as am industrial chemical permit to get the “fixings”.

You might be able to still get them in the MidWest, they are banned down here after some fools swallowed a few on a dare.

The acetone is making it harder to make them as it is used to make illegal drugs, and you can either buy small quantities or tanker full, but rarely anything in between as would be used by the small American fireworks manufacturers. I visited a small manufacturer in New York before the family quit because of regulations and residential encroachment. They manufactured big displays, not the consumer stuff.

There’s no way to be sure what the Chinese or Mexicans are using, other than chemical analysis.

]]> By: Michael https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/08/12/guilty-as-charged/comment-page-1/#comment-17194 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:28:21 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/08/12/guilty-as-charged/#comment-17194 Poppers are one of the fulminates (probably mercury, back in the day, but now changed to something a little less toxic). I think TATP is even touchier.

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