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Reid bill would require background checks to purchase explosive powders
The Hill ^ | April 24, 2013

Posted on 04/25/2013 5:45:42 AM PDT by opentalk

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require background checks to be run on anyone buying explosive powder, a reaction to last week's Boston Marathon bombing.

Reid introduced the bill, S. 792, for Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who has been out sick for much of the year. But in a press statement, Lautenberg said the Boston bombing shows that background checks are needed for explosive materials.

"It defies common sense that anyone, even a terrorist, can walk into a store in America and buy explosive powders without a background check or any questions asked," Lautenberg said Tuesday. "Requiring a background check for an explosives permit is a small price to pay to ensure the safety of our communities.

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1 posted on 04/25/2013 5:45:42 AM PDT by opentalk
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The big question is what doses he mean by explosive powder.
2 posted on 04/25/2013 5:47:05 AM PDT by riverrunner
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What’s next? Can’t buy a pressure cooker without registering it?


3 posted on 04/25/2013 5:47:29 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: opentalk

Guess you’ll have to have a license to buy Roman candles and firecrackers this Independence Day, or perhaps there will be no more “independence” to celebrate anyway.


4 posted on 04/25/2013 5:48:09 AM PDT by txrefugee
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They bought fireworks. Does he really expect every roadside fireworks stand to run background checks?


5 posted on 04/25/2013 5:48:20 AM PDT by rstrahan
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To: opentalk

They’ll be parlaying that into a background check for the purchase of anything that contains gunpowder.


6 posted on 04/25/2013 5:48:35 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: opentalk

Probably, certain combinations of kitchen cleaners could produce a improvised WMD or explosive.

These guys are like Pharisees - believing that Law can make society righteous.


7 posted on 04/25/2013 5:48:52 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: riverrunner
The big question is what doses he mean by explosive powder.

Right. Bullets have explosive powder.

8 posted on 04/25/2013 5:49:48 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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One can make explosives out of Urine and a few common food additives that can be extracted from plants. It is commonly done to make IEDs in third world hellholes.

Will we now need backgrounds to urinate?


9 posted on 04/25/2013 5:50:19 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: riverrunner
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Under current law, people can buy up to 50 pounds of explosive "black powder" with no background check, and can buy unlimited amounts of other explosive powders, such as "black powder substitute" and "smokeless powder."

Lautenberg's bill would require a background check for the purchase of any of these powders.

10 posted on 04/25/2013 5:50:37 AM PDT by opentalk
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It also defies common sense that folks as demonstrably inept and stupid as Whorehouse Harry, Lush Biden, Nancy Botoxi, and most importantly, the Obamadork could be elected to any public office.


11 posted on 04/25/2013 5:50:51 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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The saddest part is that the powder from fireworks isn’t the preferred explosive for a pressure cooker bomb. One of the counter terrorism experts I saw on the news yesterday said that match heads are proffered.

They burn more slowly but build up considerably more pressure and make a much bigger boom.


12 posted on 04/25/2013 5:51:42 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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These communists will spend trillions of dollars preventing law abiding citizens rights, while at the same time cutting funds to enforcement agencies as well as down-right refusing to pursue those whom they KNOW are breaking the law.

Do you REALLY think this is just incompetence???

The Russians are right. Obama and his ilk ARE communists.

They NEED events like the Boston bombing to trigger the chaos which leads to their removal of the constitution.


13 posted on 04/25/2013 5:52:00 AM PDT by Safrguns
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Does he really expect every roadside fireworks stand to run background checks?

No. They'll just ban them. It's much easier than taking action on repeated warnings from other countries about likely terrorists. They'll probably attempt to ban fertilzer as well.

"Never let a good crisis go to waste" -- Rahm Emanuel

14 posted on 04/25/2013 5:52:00 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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background checks for fertilizers?


15 posted on 04/25/2013 5:52:28 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Sigh.


16 posted on 04/25/2013 5:54:03 AM PDT by EBH (Warning this person is a Catholic, Tea Party Patriot, and owns a copy of Atlas Shurgged)
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… Leave the powder alone. The bombers got their powder out of fireworks anyway, not off the shelf black powder or smokeless powder.

17 posted on 04/25/2013 5:54:23 AM PDT by opentalk
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How about a background check for everyone who buy fertilizer? Or Propane bottles for the BBQ?????


18 posted on 04/25/2013 5:54:29 AM PDT by BubbaBobTX ("The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: opentalk
Under current law, people can buy up to 50 pounds of explosive "black powder" with no background check, and can buy unlimited amounts of other explosive powders, such as "black powder substitute" and "smokeless powder."

Lautenberg's bill would require a background check for the purchase of any of these powders.


And there it is.
Background checks for reloaders.
19 posted on 04/25/2013 5:56:26 AM PDT by servo1969
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This will make it extremely difficult for gang-bangers in Chicago to get reloading matrerial for their ammo needs.


20 posted on 04/25/2013 5:58:23 AM PDT by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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