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Marketing and use of explosives precursors

The WiZard is In - 22-9-2010 at 16:24

European Union

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mewrox99 - 23-9-2010 at 03:34

LOL you don't even need conc. H2O2 for TATP. The stuff at the pharmacy does fine

ScienceSquirrel - 23-9-2010 at 07:39

The full text is here;

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/malmstrom/archive/C...

What it will achieve and nothing beyond introducing more paperwork is the same thing. Most serious hobbyists will get round it quite easily and as for the terrorists that this is aimed at they will avoid it with ease.
An off the shelf company and a lock up unit on a business park and they will be in the 'magic circle' that can buy what they want.
It might stop the odd crazy bastard that spends their time locked in a rented room watching al-Qaeda videos on their lap top before heading off to devastate Slough shopping centre with a bomb in the back of a rented van but they could achieve the same thing with a fifty litre drum of gasoline sitting on a Primus stove in the back anyway.