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In a chilling twist, the company that sold Tamerlan the fireworks is the same one that sold Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad the firecrackers he used to build his failed car bomb.
1 posted on 04/24/2013 6:05:29 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Well maybe these idiots should profile for the sake of American citizens.


2 posted on 04/24/2013 6:07:44 AM PDT by angcat
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and the FBI didn’t act against Tsarnaev because....?


6 posted on 04/24/2013 6:12:42 AM PDT by montag813
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I didn’t know fireworks stores sold bulk black powder. Is that true?


7 posted on 04/24/2013 6:13:19 AM PDT by Renegade
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Where’s the FBI or Big Sis? Oh yeah, they are keeping a lookout for Tea Party or Christian extremists.


9 posted on 04/24/2013 6:14:35 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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How did these two ever keep from blowing themselves up? Oh never mind, one of them did!


10 posted on 04/24/2013 6:14:48 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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According to this other thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3011716/posts

with link to local NH newspaper he bought large legal(in NH)class A fireworks.

He did not buy black powder.


12 posted on 04/24/2013 6:18:23 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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Well it is obvious to be that MAssachusetts should BAN THE POSSESSION AND USE OF ALL FIREWORKS!!!!! oh wait.............


13 posted on 04/24/2013 6:18:31 AM PDT by commish (The takers rule. Time to implement the triple G plan - GOD, GUNS, & GOLD)
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Ban Fireworks and the 4th of July!!
16 posted on 04/24/2013 6:29:19 AM PDT by PROCON (Never underestimate the power of low information voters in large numbers.)
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Yeah, I’ve fireworks and 1 lb. (500 grams) is the maximum limit you can buy in 1 firework in SC. The problem is that unless you get a straight boomer (explosion only, no lightup) the bomb’s going to be way weaker.

I have a good idea what mortar set he bought, too, if it was a Black Cat store.


18 posted on 04/24/2013 6:30:03 AM PDT by struggle
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When I was young fireworks were legal and available everywhere in July.

From what what I know, firecrackers, cherry bombs, M80s etc. didn’t use gunpowder. They used aluminum powder plus another chemical, the name of which I won’t mention here. But not black powder.


20 posted on 04/24/2013 6:33:33 AM PDT by babygene ( .)
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So, now fireworks = black powder???
Wasn’t there something just in the news the other day about seeking a ban on black powder? Awful convenient...


22 posted on 04/24/2013 6:40:22 AM PDT by LibertyRocks
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He bought 200 dollars worth and it was not used in the bombs. about 2 and a half pounds total, which is not much.

The bombs used high speed military grade explosive which was obvious from the damage done as well as the lack of black powder residual on the components found. The amount of smoke was way less than you would expect, the blast fireball should have been yellow, not white (too high a temperature). The removal of limbs was due to a high speed shockwave rather than shrapnel. None of it fits black powder.

Not at all sure what explosive was used. We may never find out which is fine by me. I think the press provides entirely too much information on these types of attacks and they should just shut up.


26 posted on 04/24/2013 6:50:42 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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Fireworks? Bull $hit!
Like the guy from the fireworks company said, there ain't enough powder in $200.00 worth of fireworks to make bombs.

For $200, he could have bought up to 10 pounds of black powder from any retailer that caters to black powder shooters or hunters. For God's sake, for $200, he could have bought 10 pounds of smokeless powder.
Were the bomber brothers and their accomplices that stupid?
Or does the government and their lackeys in the media really think we are that stupid?
Probably the latter.

31 posted on 04/24/2013 7:04:02 AM PDT by Tupelo
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Great. So now they’ll want to make fireworks illegal. I mean, it had to be the black powder that made them do it right? It couldn’t have been because they were radical Moslem fanatics who wanted to kill Americans, right?


33 posted on 04/24/2013 7:08:22 AM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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Paging Misha, please use the white courtesy phone at the front desk ...


34 posted on 04/24/2013 7:08:55 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
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