Yeah! Boston Bombers used fireworks

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Yeah! Boston Bombers used fireworks

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Maybe now all the talk of banning black and smokeless powder will die down

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/boston-bo ... d=19028841
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Re: Yeah! Boston Bombers used fireworks

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No because the main component in mortar shells IS black powder. Black powder for the lift charge and black powder for the boom.
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Actually, they probably used them as booster charges to get the larger components to go high-order.

Thank of them as a poor mans blasting cap.
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Re: Yeah! Boston Bombers used fireworks

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AR-300 wrote:Maybe now all the talk of banning black and smokeless powder will die down

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/boston-bo ... d=19028841

I doubt it, the 'bug' has already been planted in the minds(I use the term loosely) of the left/liberals...
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