[Dead Corpse]

Isn’t white willow bark used to make the primer material? Shouldn’t be too hard for someone with a chemistry book to come up with a recipe that’ll work.

[Travis McGee]

Probably so, but that’ll be made a felony, under the terms of the law.

[patton]

picric acid - it is a distillation of asperin - which is a distillation of willow bark.

[oldfart]

Somewher on my bookshelves I have a book (printed and distributed by the U.S. government) with detailed instructions about making primers. The hardest part to acquire are the spent ones for “refilling.”