[eno_]

The ATF seems to have time on their hands, needs new people to bother.

[Richard Axtell]

Does this include the little C-6-0, B-12-3, and other sizes I used to buy from Estes in Colorado and Centuri in Phoenix? They used to sell those in the hobby stores also. I guess a budding boy terrorist could build his own mini bazooka with something like that.

[Coroner]

Im still pissed that the nanny state made K-Mart stop selling those cute little turtles about 30 years ago!!

[agitator]

Your tax dollars at work.

[baltodog]

My brother and my brother-in-law do this. They go to the national championship here in Kansas.

"This rocket will shoot up for 5 seconds, produce a blue smoke ring, fire bright, thrustless flames for 7 seconds, and land at that yellow flag a half mile away."

I've seen these rockets up to 3-feet diameter and 16-feet tall.

Once they get licensed or registered, these guys get to mix their own solid fuel.

Yeah, they should should be licensed and registered. This isn't stuff that you'd want some drunk teenagers doinking with.

[concentric circles]

Courtesy of Austin Area Rocketry Group.

[Libertina]

I heard a great Coast to Caost interview with the man who really invented one of our rockets. He was a boy genius. As he was talking, I thought about just this point... In today's society when a child isn't even allowed to stay in a classroom, car, or home alone - how could they ever get permission to have a separate lab where they built rockets with explosive fuel or use a farmer's field to fire them off?

Before, if a bridge came down, good stout men would have built another one up by the end of the week. A creek is flooding? They would clear the debris. Bad guys coming around? They'd defend their families and shoot them.

Now it would be demanded that these MEN wait for a three-year environmental impact statement, pretend they can't clear a creek (might hurt fish, the heck with flooded homes) and are told they have to call police before they bravely defend their loved ones. After all, owning a gun doesn't give you the right to USE it!

Liberal "safety" will turn us into ignorant morons sooner rather than later... It is killing the very essence of this amazing country.

[nw_akston]

For a country that constantly nags about how we aren't getting kids in science and engineering, we sure are taking a lot of steps to ensure that kids will never have any interest. After all, it's often hobbies like this that really get the kids interested, but it's getting to the point where it is practically not worth the effort. We've been seeing the dividends of the "safe society" for quite a while now, and this is just another thing that is just going to hurt us more in the near future. Too bad we can't get the "safety brigade" to see the disaster that they have created...

[Mulder]

This country is becoming more and more like the Soviet Union every day.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

My rockets used to blow up. I then figured out that they wouldn't if I stopped filling them with gunpowder scavenged from fireworks and gluing the nose cone on.

[Valin]

Ask yourself, just how hard would it be to build a rocket and take down an airliner.