New York bomb contained residue of Tannerite

inn ^ | 9/18/16 | Ben Ariel,

[Nachum]

The bomb that rocked a New York City neighborhood on Saturday night contained residue of an explosive often used for target practice that can be picked up in many sporting goods stores, a federal law enforcement official said Sunday, according to The Associated Press.

The discovery of Tannerite in materials recovered from the explosion that injured 29 people may be important as authorities probe whether the blast was connected to an unexploded pressure-cooker device found by state troopers just blocks away, as well as a pipe bomb blast in a New Jersey shore town earlier in the day.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who toured the site of the blast in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, said there didn't appear to be any link to international terrorism. He said the second device appeared "similar in design" to the first, but did not provide details.

"We're going to be very careful and patient to get to the full truth here," New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, said Sunday, according to AP. "We have more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this. Was it a political motivation? A personal motivation? What was it? We do not know that yet."

[DOC44]

quarter stick of dynamite and some ammonia nitrate is what they used to use to up root stumps.

But this target blowup stuff???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVSecWR5YgY

Doc44

[fireman15]

He was a combat engineer in WWII and I can remember his talking about their using TNT and how it was very safe. Maybe that qualified him to purchase dynamite.

As far as I know you didn't need much in the way of qualifications to purchase explosives when I was a kid. My dad and grandfather blew up many stumps when I was a kid in the 1960s... They built hundreds of houses in the 1940s through the 1960s. So they cleared a lot of land and blew up stumps frequently. I am not sure that either of them had any real training other than watching someone else do it and getting advice from whoever they bought the explosives from.

I do remember the first time they gave ANFO a try... They miscalculated, their was a huge explosion compared to normal. Typically a big stump didn't even get airborne, but this giant stump went far into the air and came down on the hood of my grandfather's pickup which was pretty close to where were at and made a real mess out of it. My dad and grandfather never used harsh language, but on this day my vocabulary was expanded by a couple easy to remember 4 letter words. It was a really old Dodge Power Wagon that was a beater to begin with. It wasn't completely destroyed but it looked pretty bad and wasn't worth trying to get it looking decent again.

[Eagles6]

More pc to ban tannerite than to ban muslims which would actually solve the problem.

[Lopeover]

Interesting.

[BwanaNdege]

A buddy in Vietnam who was a farm boy from Montana told me about he & his dad digging 6 foot deep holes, dumping in two - 100 lb sacks of AN followed by two - 5 gal cans of diesel.

They’d set it off with a 1/4 stick of dynamite and end up with a 30 diameter hole to collect rainwater runoff as a stock tank for the cattle.

That was in the days before our ‘enlightened’ government taught us to fear little old ladies boarding airliners while in possession of fingernail clippers!

[bone52]

Especially strange because ANFO is frequently made with AL powder also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO

[JGT]

I guess the Feds finally decided it was time to get rid of tannerite, mission accomplished.

[bone52]

Similar to my thoughts. I just don’t see tannerite as a very likely explosive especially because adding a little diesel greatly increases its effectiveness. Unless these are Jihadi “Special” operators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_effectiveness_factor

[fireman15]

After smashing the truck my grandfather and dad went back to whatever they were using before. They were using big dozers to clear the land, so they were using the explosives only on really big stumps that were too big to pull up with the tractors. All they really needed to do was loosen them up, but they did want to get all the big chunks out so they wouldn't cause problems later.

I have attached a photo of my grandfather using a dozer to clear land 70 years ago that is now in the middle of one of the best parts of the town where I grew up. It was taken before the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built... which would be in the background today.

People living around here today generally do not have a clue what the land looked like 70 years ago where they are now living. I suppose that is a little sad in some ways. By 1946 these were mostly 2nd growth fir trees in this area that were logged before the land was developed but there were a lot of giant stumps left from earlier times that explosives were necessary for. Sorry to go off on a tangent.

[Let's Roll]

I was raised on a farm and I can remember grandfather and neighbors using dynamite on stumps also. This was in the 50s.

[Let's Roll]

I was raised on a farm and I can remember grandfather and neighbors using dynamite on stumps also. This was in the 50s.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Why is law enforcement revealing this fact? They should keep their investigation and the details of how they solve them to themselves.

[PLMerite]

“I wonder where he got it?”

Back then every other person wasn’t a raging psychopath, so things were a bit more relaxed.

[fireman15]

I need to correct my description of the photo I attached, it was taken after the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge fell down and the before the second bridge was built. And actually the bridge would be South of where this photo was cropped. I know this is completely outside of the conversation and I apologize.

[Secret Agent Man]

It is a ploy to ban tannerite.

They tried reclasifying gunpowder as a restricted explosive so we cant do reloads.

They want people who make gun repairs to get a gunsmith license.

They are full court pressing law abiding gun owners.

[MagnoliaB]

That is too funny!

[DJ Taylor]

Some of us saw this one coming back in March of this year. See my #45

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3414203/posts

[mad_as_he$$]

Already banned in Washoe County, NV.

[Blogatron]

As a side note, why is “rock” always the go-to verb when journolistas report about explosions? Are we getting our money’s worth?

[Axenolith]

Residue of aluminum or styrofoam = Tannerite. What BS, it’s just an excuse to ban something to look like the politicians are doing more than practicing their skin flute playing...