I've watched an ammonium nitrate explosion when with an engineer unit. It's very effective.
However, it's also fertilizer. I don't think it would take much for them to slightly change the chemical composition and still have the fertilizer effect.
its funny.....almost everyone here is acting as the REAL crime is that its a ABC news crew. Who cares if it ABC or CNN or FOX? The POINT OF THE STORY is that if a news crew can do this then so can a group of rag heads with a death wish
So, they put ten or twenty bags of fertilizer in a rented storage shed, and that's news? This explains their ratings.
"With virtually no questions asked, an undercover ABC News team was able to purchase a half ton of one of the world's most dangerous bomb-making materials and move it into a storage shed only a few miles from the White House and the U.S. Capitol."
IF ABC is trying to threaten us, I'm unimpressed.
They've done a lot more damage to America in their biased reporting.
ABC News: 1,000 pounds of fertilizer in a 500 pound bag...
Fertilizer... a subject the media can speak of with authority!
arrest ABC news and charge them under the Patriot act.
A few miles from the White House? If it is a few miles from the White House and it went off, it wouldn't hurt the White House.
Prosecute them.
The tendancy for a writer to convert any weight or volume into TONS in order to make it sound bigger.
See: "Environmental Junk Science"
This writer is no different than any enviro-whack writer who uses "TONS" instead of pounds, ppm (parts per million) or ppbv (parts per million by volume) to express weights and volumes.
If you threw togethwr 20 of their reporters you would have half a ton of shat as well the problem with washington is they store to many damn reporters now all in the hip pocket of Democrats !
But, on a more serious note, I do agree that this is problematic. We should be suspicious of journalists. Journalists should not be permitted to buy anything that could be made into a bomb. Yes, I am advocating profiling.
ABC is going to deeply regret this supposed "fertilizer bomb" report. Especially, by airing such contrived crap, on the anniversary of 9-11.
Legislation requiring buyers of ammonium nitrate to be registered by the federal government have been blocked by the agricultural industry
special interest politics at work. Another sad story on the workings of government of, by and for the people.
As a teen, I used to make ammonium nitrate at a fertilizer shed for area farmers.
Being licensed to buy it would harass many people, but it might be wise. Still, one can buy all the gasoline they want. Do we need licensing for that?
Time to ship Brian and Rhonda overses for a little of the CIA's old "alternative set of interrogation procedures."
They are idiots. Besides possibly endangering the President, they ignore the fact when large purchases are made, the feds look into it, AFAIK.
Hey guys, there's a biological weapon buried under the White house! It's called the sewer.