House Advances Ammonium Nitrate Bill

[Moe]

idocy. Imagine the lines to register for lawn fertilizer on a spring Saturday.

The police state mentality has got to go.

[trader4]

On May 2, 6:12 pm, Moe

[BT Humble]

Mate, you live in a nation where one can buy almost any firearm short of a machine gun with pocket change and a 10-day wait.

You do NOT live in a police state.

BTH (Australia - the Nanny State).

[Dave]

"Moe"

[trader4]

Maybe instead of listening to the media you should come here to NJ and see what it takes to buy a gun. Last permit to buy a pistol here in NJ took close to a year after filling out the application and being fingerprinted by the police. That included running the prints through the FBI and the local police conducting a background check, which includes calling references and anyone else the police feel like contacting during their investigation.

As someone else posted, the biggest problem is not people obtaining guns legally through any process. It's that criminals obtain them illegally. Crack cocaine and heroin are totally illegal, aren't they? Yet, those can be obtained on the street very easily by criminals too.

[Red]

It applies to ammonium nitrate only, not all lawn fertilizers. As usual, the reporter wrote for sensationalism while leaving out pertinant facts. As I understand the bill, it would apply to bulk purchases such as a farmer would buy. It would not apply to the few bags that a homeowner would buy.

As to mentality of the bill, it makes little sense since ammonium nitrate is only half the ingredients. It has to be soaked with diesel fuel or kerosene. Why not regulate those fuels also? Because they can afford to piss off a few farmers rather than a whole lot of truckers. So this is a political "feel good" bill that does nothing.

Red

[Red]

I have long wondered why people of your state, and many other states in the NE, continue to reelect politicians who make laws unpopular with the people. Why not vote them all out of office at the next election???

Red

[Mr.E]

We need to make some of these political idiots "feel bad" by voting their worthless carcasses out of office.