“Explosives” defined by the feds and/or journalists are anything from the H-bomb to Drain-o under the bathroom sink. I’ve yet to hear exactly what they were or weren’t. But, hey, it makes for great headlines.
“Once the building had been swept for booby traps, heavily armed officers discovered 19 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and several pounds of the powder explosive tannerite.
In his car they also found a quantity of ammonium nitrate, a fertiliser that can be used to create a powerful explosive.