Posted on 04/18/2018 2:43:32 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Edited on 04/18/2018 6:00:36 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
I would be more concerned the blasting caps were stored in the same container as the “dynamite”.
When I was a lad, my father would take me with to the quarry where he was a blaster. Caps and explosives were ALWAYS stored separately until ready for use.
I say INSIDE JOB!
I worked at a Car Dealership years ago, and they had a trailer out back for parts storage. Got broken into often.
Anyone who thought it would be a safe/secure place to store dynamite was/is an idiot.
Oh - with regard to licenses, you need to have a license with the BATF which is very thorough nowadays. I used to have one before 9-11, but that changed everything and made things much more complicated.
I would imagine that because it is so difficult now to get one, anybody with one is going to make sure they do everything right so they don’t lose it.
Back in the day things were much looser. I recall one time ordering more of the binary component (not the caps) to my hotel room. The company said - “Oh yeah - as long as it isn’t the caps - no problem. We just have to ship the solid in one box, the liquid in another.”
I get back in from a day in the field, and the mom & pop motel is using my two boxes as a doorstop for the front door!!
Granted - even if they were mixed, with no blasting cap they weren’t going to do anything, not shock sensitive or anything - you can shoot it and nothing happens. It will burn though (the jet fuel, ie gasoline).
Still - they don’t allow that anymore! (My old boss recalls going into the hardware store to get dynamite and caps back in the 70’s?)
Probably pretty slow stuff, ditching sticks.
What people don’t seem to get is that the
caps are more of a threat, that equals
400 devices.
Explosives can be expedient, detonators are
a lot harder to make.
Back when I used to work with explosives I always thought it was safer to do it like we used to - dig a hole and cover it with a tarp and branches out in the woods. We would leave the site at dusk, and be back early morning, and wouldn’t see anybody all day.
But then they said we needed to bring it back to some “safe” place. Usually a nearby quarry or some other facility with a couple of large shipping containers.
Nothing to see here, move along.
One screw up when attempting to handle this stuff and we will not find too much of the thieves. My guess who ever stole the stuff know how to handle it.
Not trying to conflate the location with the crime, but this is only a couple miles down the road from Three Mile Island.
Some union workers had an extended lockout from a mower parts manufacturer real near what is considered to be “Marietta”, and used to protest by standing real close to the 2 lane river road. The intermittent pull to the right on my truck always seemed to manifest itself in that general area. Protest to your hearts content, but not worthy of standing in the road where the speed limit is 55
Something to prevent oil from being transported from one state into another state. Railroad tracks may be damaged in such an attempt. Environmental fanatics are on the rise for the last two or three years.
Blasting materials are supposed to be in a locked magazine with a wooden interior. Most magazines I’m familiar with have hardened areas for the locks. Initiators (caps) are to be kept separately in another place (usually another magazine).
Does Ayers have an alibi?
never fear atf and fbi are on it so it was either the russians or militia that stole it...
“The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said about 640 pounds of dynamite and 400 blasting caps were stolen over the weekend from a Gregory General Contracting Company site in Marietta.”
Lets hope it’s used on the right targets.
Does anyone loan large drones?
Then again, could be a farmer needing just a bit of dynamite to remove a stump or two. /s
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