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Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set
An anonymous reader writes "A recent unfortunate casualty of anti-terrorism laws is the home chemistry set. Once deemed the gift that saved Christmas, most Slashdotters probably remember early childhood experimentation with one of the many pre-packaged chemistry sets that were on the market. Unfortunately the FBI has decided that home chemistry sets are a threat to national security and they are rapidly disappearing from the market entirely. Those that remain are shallow boring versions of the old kits."
They must sell veeery different chemistry sets where I come from. The chemistry set I had let you make blue crystals and turn blue solutions red etc, the chemicals were the sort of chemicals that you could get an idea of how a couple of concepts and how to use basic equipment, not exactly blow-up-building material. They were mostly salts.
Maybe it was just a baby chemistry set, but it does seem like there are easier ways to learn bomb making, and get the chemicals needed to make bombs. From what little I know about bomb making you can make the cheaper terrorism-level bombs out of quite a household items.
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