Better check your kitchen ...

I have Choreboy copper scrub pads in the gun room and under the sink. We try to hide the fiberglass insulation in the walls and ceilings.

I have ammonia nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel. I guess I could use something around here to set it off.

An enterprising individual could make explosives or silencers from many common household products.

It would seem to me that individuals who have paid for their tax stamp have already shown they are following the law. I would be really interested in reading more about this case and seeing what brought this one on.
 
I thought all you had to do was tape a plastic soda bottle to the end of the barrel? Isn't that what Steven Segal did in a movie to a pistol? Does that even work???? I'd be afraid to try it. :eek:
 
Here in NZ suppressors are completely legal and over the counter.

So I can tell you that a coke bottle works with .22. Never tried with anything bigger sorry.
 
Oh my goodness!

Does that mean because I own both a hacksaw and firearms that I constructively possess a short barreled weapon?

Ohhh, I have indoor plumbing, insulation in the walls of my home, and firearms (and a hacksaw). Jeez, I guess I could make a short barreled suppressed firearm! Or a snorkel device for a drug submarine!

Oh no, I just realized I have an air compressor and almost 18 gallons of gasoline in my car's tank! I have the components for a fuel/air bomb!

Good lord, I just found a bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide and another of alcohol. I could build an ICBM, or an air independent turbine submarine, like the Walter U-Boats!

Oh my! I just realized that my fireplace ashes, combined with my cat's urine, and a few other ingredients can produce gunpowder!

I have both semi-auto and a Dremel tool in my home, oh my gosh, I could manufacture a full-auto weapon!

:mad:

Reeeeediculus, though the more stupid rulings this agency makes, the better off we all are. Someday, hopefully before it's too late, the general public will say "wait just a minute...".
 
When the day comes that my brother in law can accomplish even 1% of all the horrible things that I've been told he can do with "a few household chemicals and items, and ordinary tools found in every garage" I'm going to start worrying.

My BIL would have a pretty rough time screwing a light bulb. A fella near my home made homemade fireworks, and an accidental detonation just about ripped him in half (he did survive. Barely.)

I'm sitting here jealously wishing that I could take my .38 special and a dremel tool and make a machine pistol, because I just know them zombies are gonna be here before next year is over.
 
Show on TV last night made a cannon from a tall oxygen cylinder that shot bowling balls. Got me to thinking, ...I've got four good scuba tanks and I dont dive anymore....maybe an armadillo launching device !
 
I venture to say, there isn't a house hold in the US that I can't find stuff to make an explosive device of some sort or other.

Having said that, part of my job as a Bomb Tech in LE was policing up fingers and other assorted body parts of people who tried to make such devices and home made fireworks.
 
Having said that, part of my job as a Bomb Tech in LE was policing up fingers and other assorted body parts of people who tried to make such devices and home made fireworks.
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Well, heck. Get out your Crayolas, kraigwy, and color me green with envy.

Seriously: the main reason I never fooled around with firecrackers was I knew I'd be lucky to end up one-eyed and eight-fingered.
 
Years ago a college buddy and I tried variouis homemade silencers. The best sound absorbing materials were steel wool and plastic packing peanuts, so I guess those will be next.
And have you looked at your cutlery selection lately?
 
Ya'll are makin' me nostalgic. I got my start by working in an illegal fireworks factory as a teen. Been working with ordnance most of my adult life... Still have all my fingers and toes and have never been involved with an unintentional ignition in any form.

Not ALL backyard tinkering is bad. You just need to have somebody who has a clue take you under his wing and teach you (in my case, it was a professional chemist).
 
“ound/gas absorbing materials manufactured from Chore Boy copper cleaning pads, along with fiberglass insulation, constitute a silencer…”
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I'd have to say that after reading the actual letter in the link, Codrea's article does not even make a good attempt at being an accurate representation of the ruling.

The quote above is actually part of a question sent to the BATF, not part of the BATF response.

The complete question is below (with my emphasis added)

Does sound/gas absorbing materials manufactured from Chore Boy copper cleaning pads, along with fiberglass insulation, constitute a silencer PART as define (sic) in 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(24)?​

The response was that the material was "the same as a baffle in that it is designed to redirect/trap gases".

Basically, the gist of the letter was to ask if replacing the copper mesh in a silencer with readily available materials was the same, legally speaking, as replacing the baffles in a silencer and, further, if having a stock of those materials on hand would be considered to be the same, for a silencer owner, as if he were making spare parts for his silencer and keeping a stock of them on hand. The answer was that it is.

There was NOTHING in the ruling that stated the materials in question, in and of themselves were considered by the BATF to be a silencer. The ruling simply stated that replacing those materials in a silencer would be legally identical to replacing the baffle in a silencer and that having a stock of such materials along with a silencer that employed such materials would be the legal equivalent of making spare parts for a silencer that the person owns.
 
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