What’s next? Can’t buy a pressure cooker without registering it?
They bought fireworks. Does he really expect every roadside fireworks stand to run background checks?
Right. Bullets have explosive powder.
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.
Primers. Powder.
Self-important Stasi DHS official: You're going to need a background check to buy that.
Me: But it's just some flour, I'm going to bake Christmas cookies!?
Self-important Stasi DHS official {into radio mic}: Code red! Code red! Aisle 3 - we have a suspected right-wing Christian here. Code red! Code red!...
Anything they want. Baby powder will explode when ejected in a fine suspension.
Can’t matches be used to make bombs?
“The big question is what doses he mean by explosive powder.
Gunpowder of course. You already have to have a license to buy and use industrial explosives.
Given his long record of introducing and sponsoring anti-2nd Amendment bills he no doubt means the smokeless propellants used by handloaders to reload fired cartridge cases. Black powder that was used in pre-20th century cartridges is an explosive, but the smokeless propellants used in virtually all cartridges since then isn't. Smokeless propellants aren't classed as explosives by the BAFTE, not yet at least, and are sold by most gun stores.
The next step will probably be restrictions on lead since most reloaders reload with lead alloy bullets which can be cast from many common items containing lead such as wheel balancing weights, scrapped plumbing fixtures, old printing press lettering type, etc. I have about 50 lbs of lead I salvaged from the logs and dirt backstop on what I call my back-forty shooting range. I wanted to order a bullet casting kit from the Lee Loader website but they're out of stock and back ordered for the foreseeable future. I have propellant, fired brass cases, and primers, but I'm short of lead bullets and all of my usual sources are backordered from here to eternity.
If you mix a large quantity of pool chlorine with gasoline, it will shortly explode. A distant ex-relative of mine discovered that by accident while trying to smoke out a hornet’s nest. Will they be requiring background checks for pool chlorine and gasoline?
Start with baking soda and go from there...