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Good video on the legality of tannerite, from someone with a license to manufacture explosives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnXOMMjBcEU https://www.youtube.

Good video on the legality of tannerite, from someone with a license to manufacture explosives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnXOMMjBcEU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnXOMMjBcEU tl;dr: The moment you mix tannerite it becomes an explosive, and about the only legal thing you can do with it is blow it up in a safe manner. Though obviously, that's just a "tl;dr" from a non-lawyer watching a youtube video by a non-lawyer. :)

phobosanomaly 6y ago
That is 100% consistent with what is written on the ATF website. https://www.atf.gov/explosives/binary-explosives https://www.atf.gov/explosives/binary-explosives I am curious, however, if it legally becomes a regulated explosive when mixed, how would the law deal with an explosive device that only mixed the compound at the moment of detonation. For example, a pipe bomb where the binary explosives were separated by plastic bags, but there was a wire that would be pulled through the device prior to detonation, mixing the two compounds. I realize that it's kind of a weird edge-case, but I'm just sort of pushing it there because I'm curious and I want to see how far I can take the argument before I'm clearly wrong.
- petertodd 6y ago
  An interesting question along those lines is what's the status of flour bombs? Powder explosions can be pretty powerful if conditions are just right. I've heard of authorities accidentally(1) outlawing the mixing of vinegar and baking soda in attempts to make dry-ice bombs illegal... so who knows? 1) as in, some lawyers thought the laws as written were broad enough to cover that in theory - I've never heard of someone actually being arrested on that basis.
  - phobosanomaly 6y ago
    That's another really interesting point. Blowing flour out of the palm of my hand into a lit BBQ cost me half my eyebrows as a child. The ability of airborne flour to burn is kind of incredible if you haven't seen it in person.

phobosanomaly 6y ago

That is 100% consistent with what is written on the ATF website. https://www.atf.gov/explosives/binary-explosives https://www.atf.gov/explosives/binary-explosives I am curious, however, if it legally becomes a regulated explosive when mixed, how would the law deal with an explosive device that only mixed the compound at the moment of detonation. For example, a pipe bomb where the binary explosives were separated by plastic bags, but there was a wire that would be pulled through the device prior to detonation, mixing the two compounds. I realize that it's kind of a weird edge-case, but I'm just sort of pushing it there because I'm curious and I want to see how far I can take the argument before I'm clearly wrong.

petertodd 6y ago
An interesting question along those lines is what's the status of flour bombs? Powder explosions can be pretty powerful if conditions are just right. I've heard of authorities accidentally(1) outlawing the mixing of vinegar and baking soda in attempts to make dry-ice bombs illegal... so who knows? 1) as in, some lawyers thought the laws as written were broad enough to cover that in theory - I've never heard of someone actually being arrested on that basis.
- phobosanomaly 6y ago
  That's another really interesting point. Blowing flour out of the palm of my hand into a lit BBQ cost me half my eyebrows as a child. The ability of airborne flour to burn is kind of incredible if you haven't seen it in person.