| Pages:
1
2
3 |
JJay
International Hazard
Posts: 3440
Registered: 15-10-2015
Member Is Offline
|
|
"Persons who manufacture explosives for their personal, non-business use (e.g., making fireworks to set off on your own property or mixing binary
explosive components to remove a stump in your own yard) are not required to have a manufacturer’s license. However, no person may ship, transport,
cause to be transported, or receive explosive materials unless such person holds a license or permit."
https://www.atf.gov/explosives
|
|
|
Herr Haber
International Hazard
Posts: 1236
Registered: 29-1-2016
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
Could you guys be kind enought to yourselves and your hobby by using the apropriate words as Jackson pointed out ?
At the beginning there was no mention of a bomb.
Making a bomb and making explosives are two different things.
I'll always be against the first one because building a bomb means you intent to hurt someone or their property.
Explosives on the other hand have many other more interesting uses.
|
|
|
Mr. Rogers
Hazard to Others
Posts: 184
Registered: 30-10-2017
Location: Ammonia Avenue
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
Quote: Originally posted by JJay  | "Persons who manufacture explosives for their personal, non-business use (e.g., making fireworks to set off on your own property or mixing binary
explosive components to remove a stump in your own yard) are not required to have a manufacturer’s license. However, no person may ship, transport,
cause to be transported, or receive explosive materials unless such person holds a license or permit."
https://www.atf.gov/explosives |
Fireworks aren't bombs and neither does something explosive need to be a bomb.
|
|
|
JJay
International Hazard
Posts: 3440
Registered: 15-10-2015
Member Is Offline
|
|
The problem is not whether such and such explosive device is a bomb or not. It's a bomb.
|
|
|
Mr. Rogers
Hazard to Others
Posts: 184
Registered: 30-10-2017
Location: Ammonia Avenue
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
Not according to the law.
|
|
|
JJay
International Hazard
Posts: 3440
Registered: 15-10-2015
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Rogers | | Quote: Originally posted by JJay | "Persons who manufacture explosives for their personal, non-business use (e.g., making fireworks to set off on your own property or mixing binary
explosive components to remove a stump in your own yard) are not required to have a manufacturer’s license. However, no person may ship, transport,
cause to be transported, or receive explosive materials unless such person holds a license or permit."
https://www.atf.gov/explosives |
Fireworks aren't bombs and neither does something explosive need to be a bomb. |
Simply wrong. Fireworks are bombs.
|
|
|
JJay
International Hazard
Posts: 3440
Registered: 15-10-2015
Member Is Offline
|
|
You are going to have to cite a law to make statements like that.
|
|
|
macckone
Dispenser of practical lab wisdom
Posts: 2168
Registered: 1-3-2013
Location: Over a mile high
Member Is Offline
Mood: Electrical
|
|
There are also regulations around storage of explosives. This is where the ATF usually gets people. Improper storage is a serious felony.
Explosives may not be stored or manufactured in a residence in the majority of cases. There are set backs from roads and inhabited buildings that
apply as well. You don't need a license to manufacture provided the explosives will be used immediately on-site. Many of the safety regulations
still apply. And as mr Rogers pointed out a destructive device is not allowed. And that includes putting it in a glass or plastic container if such
container would produce shrapnel. Yes. Simply storing explosives in an incorrect container is considered making an destructive device.
|
|
|
OldNubbins
Hazard to Others
Posts: 136
Registered: 2-2-2017
Location: CA
Member Is Offline
Mood: Comfortably Numb
|
|
I agree. It is too broad of a term.
gay bomb, bath bomb, stink bomb, flour bomb, bug bomb, and the ubiquitous F-Bomb
|
|
|
JJay
International Hazard
Posts: 3440
Registered: 15-10-2015
Member Is Offline
|
|
If you explain to the jury that you were just mining gravel in the back 40, someone is probably going to refuse to find you guilty. If you are duct
taping ball bearings to a bomb, I don't think they are going to let that slide.
|
|
|
monolithic
Hazard to Others
Posts: 436
Registered: 5-3-2018
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
VSEPR_VOID, can you tell us where you bought the acetone and peroxide from, so we know to never order from them?
[Edited on 24-11-2018 by monolithic]
|
|
|
macckone
Dispenser of practical lab wisdom
Posts: 2168
Registered: 1-3-2013
Location: Over a mile high
Member Is Offline
Mood: Electrical
|
|
a bomb is too broad a term.
a destructive device is anything that will produce potentially lethal shrapnel.
fireworks are not destructive devices as the paper won't produce shrapnel.
raw explosives aren't destructive devices without a means of ignition and something to create shrapnel.
but you can't transport or sell explosives without a license.
nor can you store explosives without following a load of regulations.
you can't manufacture explosives in a certain distance from a residence or roadway.
IF you are going to indulge in making explosives, do so responsibly and follow the rules.
|
|
|
VSEPR_VOID
National Hazard
Posts: 719
Registered: 1-9-2017
Member Is Offline
Mood: Fullerenes
|
|
Christ, this thread got long.
Within cells interlinked
Within cells interlinked
Within cells interlinked
|
|
|
andy1988
Hazard to Others
Posts: 135
Registered: 11-2-2018
Location: NW Americus ([i]in re[/i] Amerigo Vespucci)
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by macckone |
Note specifically that picric acid is considered an explosive in the US rather wet or not unless you can prove it is for other uses.
|
@#$!
Here I am, planning my first use of the spectrophotometer I bought (Spectronic 20). Planning heavy metals testing samples out of curiosity... Jaffe reaction to measure creatine (creatinine?). Picric acid scarce on US ebay... so thought I would check here for better sources.
What a chore. Anyways, thanks for the explanation everyone, I wasn't aware.
EDIT: Wait, it says "Picric acid (manufactured as an explosive)." in that ATF document. I'd expect it in bulk solid form to be considered explosive.
But a wet form in small bottle useful for things like the Jaffe reaction should maybe not be considered manufactured as an explosive? IDK.
[Edited on 16-1-2019 by andy1988]
|
|
|
VSEPR_VOID
National Hazard
Posts: 719
Registered: 1-9-2017
Member Is Offline
Mood: Fullerenes
|
|
The right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Where is my McNuke?
Within cells interlinked
Within cells interlinked
Within cells interlinked
|
|
|
Velzee
Hazard to Others
Posts: 381
Registered: 19-8-2015
Location: New York
Member Is Offline
Mood: Taking it easy
|
|
This is ridiculous. The FBI has been going after everyone, I guess.
Gives me pure anxiety just whenever someone even just mentions the time they came to my apartment.
Although, I was one reckless kid.
Check out the ScienceMadness Wiki: http://www.sciencemadness.org/smwiki/index.php/Main_Page
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
—Arthur Schopenhauer
"¡Vivá Cristo Rey!"
—Saint José Sánchez del Río |
|
|
Texium
Administrator
Posts: 4618
Registered: 11-1-2014
Location: Salt Lake City
Member Is Offline
Mood: PhD candidate!
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by andy1988 | | Quote: Originally posted by macckone |
Note specifically that picric acid is considered an explosive in the US rather wet or not unless you can prove it is for other uses.
|
@#$!
Here I am, planning my first use of the spectrophotometer I bought (Spectronic 20). Planning heavy metals testing samples out of curiosity... Jaffe reaction to measure creatine (creatinine?). Picric acid scarce on US ebay... so thought I would check here for better sources.
What a chore. Anyways, thanks for the explanation everyone, I wasn't aware.
EDIT: Wait, it says "Picric acid (manufactured as an explosive)." in that ATF document. I'd expect it in bulk solid form to be considered explosive.
But a wet form in small bottle useful for things like the Jaffe reaction should maybe not be considered manufactured as an explosive? IDK.
[Edited on 16-1-2019 by andy1988] |
I think that you can rest easy due to the fact that you have a
spectrophotometer and can provide a detailed explanation of what you want to use it for. The law has to contain that flexibility for some reason. Your
setup and explanation, along with the small amount and safe storage, should serve as proof beyond any doubt, if you should even run into trouble in
the first place.
|
|
|
Mr. Rogers
Hazard to Others
Posts: 184
Registered: 30-10-2017
Location: Ammonia Avenue
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
A "bomb" is a munition that is dropped from an aircraft and carried to it's target by means of gravity. "Bomb" isn't any term that appears anywhere
in US code to refer to fireworks.
"Little Boy" was a bomb, an LGM-30 is a missile, etc, and fireworks are fireworks.
|
|
|
Fantasma4500
International Hazard
Posts: 1681
Registered: 12-12-2012
Location: Dysrope (aka europe)
Member Is Offline
Mood: dangerously practical
|
|
incorrect. a b*mb is an explosive device put together with the intent of destroying personnel of structure. it doesnt specify whether its a
composition of single explosive chemical, low or high explosive - its all about the intent
if you deal with chemistry in the wet, live in paranoia and act on it. dont take chances, leave as little fingerprints as possible, stay off the
radar. you cant convince them even if you have 200 different chemicals that you simply fancy collecting chemicals
even if they do show up at your door, even after all the demonization that always will follow with legal action or automatic weapons outside your
door, they will still at minor notice show up again "just in case"
theyre not gonna put less focus on chemistry. its only going to get worse
|
|
|
Sturge11
Harmless
Posts: 18
Registered: 4-9-2019
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Rogers |
Can you elaborate on this? I've heard about the "acetone in a glass bottle" thing before but I don't understand what this is about.
|
I believe that the acetone is a glass bottle bit is one of the hang ups referred to above. Obviously if you have acetone in a glass bottle, no big
deal right? Well according to the letter of the law if you are in possession of a chemical classified as flammable you have to store it in a very
particular way, clearly labelled as flammable. Without the proper storage and label you are violating the law and are susceptible to being punished.
What he is referring to is his relatively minute disregard to the detail of the storage law resulting in a threat to his well being by law
enforcement. I hope that clears this up for you.
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2
3 |
![[*]](images/xpblue/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
