On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:31:22 -0500, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:

Back when I was in high school we had a rocketry club. We didn't have
all these prefabbed rocket motors. We turned nozzles out of aluminum or
molded them in ceramic. Bodies were aluminum tube and we cooked up a
concoction of neoprene, powdered aluminum and ammonium perchlorate in an
electric frying pan with a Rube Goldberg remote stirrer. We had a
healthy respect for them but nobody got upset. In fact the paper came
out and covered one of our launches. Made the front page bragging on
the quality of the local science education.

We would probably go to jail for that today.

The ATF desperately wants to put AP on the explosives list, but
they can't because it isn't. Now that the model rocketeers are ****ed
off, they've got a political hot potato.
Me, I figure the more ATF and its ilk oppress people, the sooner
the revolution starts.
Of course, using ATF logic, we should ban gasoline, because that
can be made into an explosive. Ditto fertilizer.




Eric Pinnell

(Author, "Claws of The Dragon", "The Omega File")

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