On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 23:17:05 -0500, "John Grossbohlin"
...that was a good 40 years ago. I wonder how much jail time a high school
kid would get today for building a working pistol and having explosives
(i.e, black powder) ?? Hard to call it progress...

No jail time, just stupidity. I remember when I bought my first .45
colt pistol. Got home and just had to try it out. My parents weren't
at home, so I went down to the basement and shot it into a log of
wood. I was pretty much deaf for the next hour.