[IrishMike]

.....What I want to know is how these people got thier hands on 3000 lbs of Ammonium Nitrate. After OKC, I thought there were worldwide safeguards put into place to prevent exactly this kind of situation from happening....


Good point, I'm not sure just how or if there are any Canadian laws, regulations and/ or restrictions on chemicals, specially chemicals with potential hazardous or lethal use.

[Sometimes A River]

I guess it wouldn't be that hard to accumulate so much, if you bought one or two bags from 50 different stores, over the course of a few weeks.

[Beckwith]

What I want to know is how these people got thier hands on 3000 lbs of Ammonium Nitrate

15 ROPers -- that's only 200 pounds each. What's in a bag, 10 pounds, 20 pounds, 50 pounds?

15 guys, each picking up a bag of fertilizer, over a two month period ... wouldn't be noticed by anyone.

[tiki]

Ammonium nitrate isn't considered a hazardous chemical. As a farmer, I have to have a pesticide license to buy chemicals but anyone can buy fertilizer. Of course, in most places where you could get 3000 lbs of fertilizer they would know whether or not someone was a farmer and had a legitimate use for it.