UK Bookstores Found Selling Banned US Bomb-Making Handbooks (engadget.com)

Three major online retailers in the UK have been listing a number of bomb-making manuals on their websites. Engadget adds:These books were originally made back in the 1960s for US military personnel and include titles like Improvised Munitions Handbook, Boobytraps, and Explosives and Demolitions. But since the end of the Vietnam War, these books have become popular resources for terrorists of all stripes. Thomas Mair, the man who assassinated Labour MP Jo Cox, reportedly owned a copy of Improvised Munitions, for example. The surfacing of these books for sale on the WH Smith, Amazon UK and Waterstones websites, has at least one of the companies scrambling to scrub the listings. WH Smith shut down its entire website for more than four hours on Thursday to eliminate the offending material, however it appears they are still available on Amazon and Waterstones.

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Re:And?

[HornWumpus]

It is still done. Just more discreetly.

When I was 14 I thought I was smart. Asked dad (chem prof) for some high molar nitric, made up some nonsense experiment. Got it. Waited about 4 weeks, thinking dad has to have forgotten the nitric. Asked him for some high molar sulphuric (IIRC). Dad says: 'Nitrocellulose is much safer than nitroglycerin, don't be an idiot'. Then he gave me the sulphuric acid.

Granted that was awhile ago. The 4th gives me great confidence. Things that go bang are illegal here, 99% of what you hear is clearly homemade and large.