When tannerite goes wrong....

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

This story from Walton County is on Fox 5 news right now.
The bottom line is that Tannerite and other exploding targets are supposed to be shot from 100+ yards and with the mixed explosive in soft plastic or paper containers.
Not in metal appliances, vehicles, or power tools!
Now I'm not saying that I haven't blown up old refrigerators with Tannerite, but I did it from way farther off than 30 yards, and I wore safety gear, and a fridge door doesn't have the kind of thick metal s lawn mower has.

 

[ARCman47]

If he dates that one-legged girl Ilene they can really support each other.

Lmfao!!!

 

[SafeCracka]

This story from Walton County is on Fox 5 news right now.
The bottom line is that Tannerite and other exploding targets are supposed to be shot from 100+ yards and with the mixed explosive in soft plastic or paper containers.
Not in metal appliances, vehicles, or power tools!
Now I'm not saying that I haven't blown up old refrigerators with Tannerite, but I did it from way farther off than 30 yards, and I wore safety gear, and a fridge door doesn't have the kind of thick metal s lawn mower has.

3lbs and a lawnmower, hmmmmmmmm

 

[3clicks_Off]

was it his left knee, right knee or wee knee?

someone hop on the interwebs and look.

 

[chucklenut]

This is the kind of idiot that will get Tannerite banned.

no, this is the kind of idiot ****bag politicians use as an example to ban tannerite

 

[bulletpaluza]

 

[fast306stang]

This story from Walton County is on Fox 5 news right now.
The bottom line is that Tannerite and other exploding targets are supposed to be shot from 100+ yards and with the mixed explosive in soft plastic or paper containers.
Not in metal appliances, vehicles, or power tools!
Now I'm not saying that I haven't blown up old refrigerators with Tannerite, but I did it from way farther off than 30 yards, and I wore safety gear, and a fridge door doesn't have the kind of thick metal s lawn mower has.

Got a link? I couldn't find it...

 

[palmettomoon]

Dangerous stuff if handled by the simple minded. Jump to 0:41 of the video.

That news story is indicative of why we can't have certain things any longer. I can remember going into ACE hardware and buying dynamite and caps with only a DL. You used to be able to buy a damn gas can that worked without spilling the contents everywhere. It's idiots like these that ruin it for everyone else.

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

Yep. The TV news story I saw (I watched it on TV, not over the internet) featured the Paulding County Sheriff saying he doesn't understand how binary explosives can be legal.

While the explosive material itself is legal (provided that once you mix it, you use it immediately on-site and neither store it nor transport it), I don't know that building a car bomb or any other kind of fragmentation bomb with it is legal. That's legally risky. Tannerite in a plastic bottle sitting atop an empty cardboard box is OK.
Tannerite in a suitcase surrounded by nails and nuts and bolts-- that's an IED. Improvised Explosive Device. Probably illegal, even if you do not intend to hurt anybody and will blow it up "safely" on your own property. Putting explosives in a car or lawnmower where you KNOW it's going to throw big dangerous metal fragments in all directions... not clearly and certainly legal. Risky.

 

[jloneill17]

How friggin close was he?