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ProgressiveProfessor

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2. That is mostly hyperbole from MSNBC/Kos

Reply to FourScore (Original post)

Thu Apr 18, 2013, 10:36 AM

Apr 2013

There was a report attributed to a pol that there were "tracers" present in the bomb. No way to tell if that was true or not.

Post event taggants are waning in popularity and will have a limited life for practical reasons. Both the explosives industry and gun groups fought taggants and they are not present in either smokeless/black powder.

You do know how easy it is to make black powder?

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Bombing Investigation Severely Hampered by NRA! Demand Congress ACT! [View all] FourScore Apr 2013 OP

NRA Turbineguy Apr 2013 #1

That is mostly hyperbole from MSNBC/Kos ProgressiveProfessor Apr 2013 #2

Who cares how easy it is to make black powder? Most outgrew wanting to blowup or shoot stuff Hoyt Apr 2013 #3

The efficacy of taggants is very limited. ProgressiveProfessor Apr 2013 #4

5% efficacy is better than none. As usual, you sound more like a gun cultist than a "professor" or a Hoyt Apr 2013 #5

Again, you ignore the basics and underlying tech ProgressiveProfessor Apr 2013 #6

But it is useful, unless you have something to hide. Hoyt Apr 2013 #7

What part of shown to be unsafe in Gov studies did you not understand? ProgressiveProfessor Apr 2013 #8

You guys will never accept anything that might tie a gun used in a crime to you. Hoyt Apr 2013 #9

Laughable considering what I used to do ProgressiveProfessor Apr 2013 #10

FBI disagrees. If they were dangerous, safer taggants could be developed except for Hoyt Apr 2013 #11

Did you look at the Nat Acad of Science report? ProgressiveProfessor Apr 2013 #12