OK, I was wrong!
They had sugar/ sodium nitrate and a bunch of other stuff including plastic pipe.
Lawyer (inexplicably) say that the two men had a use for the things?
They still could be amateur pyros; I know of more than one instance where a “large homemade device” was unleashed on a patch of desert from a suitable distance.
But in today’s climate even buying 6” pipe nipple and caps can put an anglo under suspicion let alone young ME men driving too fast.
Pyrotechnicians and Bugs fans will both get this, but in different ways- “What a maroon!”
A box of potassium Nitrate
A pound of sugar
A gallon of gasoline
4 model rocket launchers
4 model rocket electrical ignitors
several lengths of PVC pipe including one stuffed with the potassiun nitrate/sugar mixture
This would be a smoke mixture, not a KABOOM Mixture (I thought there was supposed to be a Ka-Boom?)
As kids, we made little volcanoes of saltpeter and sugar, and I still fire off an Estes rocket every now and then-- But I don't trust this situation one bit.