Fireworks sales could be banned.

[Chippy_Tea]

They are discussing this on the radio as i type and i am all for banning the general public from buying them, back in my day the loudest fireworks were air bombs and bangers which were not that loud today's fireworks are much louder and display fireworks are the worst and are easy to get hold of, our cat is a nervous wreck in November and December so in my opinion its time to stop the public buying them.

SHOPS could be BANNED from selling fireworks after 750,000 people have signed a series of petitions calling on the Government to change the law.

MPs have now launched an inquiry into the campaign, which would mean members of the public may no longer be able to buy fireworks and limit displays to licensed venues only.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/8521979/shops-banned-selling-fireworks-law-change-petition/

 

[Gunge]

Yes they should be banned, but I would say that as I'm a miserable old bleeder. Resourceful youths, as I was, would get round the ban by making their own. Alas, most of them can't make their own dinner, these days.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Resourceful youths, as I was, would get round the ban by making their own. Alas, most of them can't make their own dinner, these days.

I wouldn't google "How to make fireworks" these days

 

[Gunge]

I wouldn't google "How to make fireworks" these days

Lol. We had the ******* library! Kids - if you can't get potassium nitrate, just get someone to purchase some sodium chlorate weedkiller from the garden centre. No problem that it's 53% fire-depressant. Just pass it thru' a suitable sieve and the stuff that gets held back is what you're after. Well that's the oxidising agent sorted; the choice of fuel components is up to you.

 

[MyQul]

In a few weeks time if anyone is wondering why when we havent seen Gunge around the forum...this ^^^^^^ post is why

 

[Gunge]

In a few weeks time if anyone is wondering why when we havent seen Gunge around the forum...this ^^^^^^ post is why

I could inform y'all how to quickly and easily make a fearsome device from household items and homemade explosive, that leaves a 12 feet crater in soft ground and sets off car alarms half a mile away. But I guess I'd best refrain. Kids don't know what fireworks are, these days.

 

[dad_of_jon]

Lol. We had the ******* library! Kids - if you can't get potassium nitrate, just get someone to purchase some sodium chlorate weedkiller from the garden centre. No problem that it's 53% fire-depressant. Just pass it thru' a suitable sieve and the stuff that gets held back is what you're after. Well that's the oxidising agent sorted; the choice of fuel components is up to you.

I tried to get hold of sodium chlorate weedkiller to blat the weeds in my sons garden that he doesn't give a fig about. however I object to having to shimmy past various triffid style things to finish building his brewshed. - I can't get sodium chlorate easily if at all, is this an EU or a UK issue?

It was the best weedkiller I ever used and now because of a few naughty people? I am stuck.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

that leaves a 12 feet crater in soft ground and sets off car alarms half a mile away.

I was thinking big fart the morning after one of your special curries.

 

[Cwrw666]

Our chemistry text book when I was in school had full instructions of how to make gun powder, gun cotton and nitro glycerin. The only bit of the book I bothered to read.

 

[An Ankoù]

Lol. We had the ******* library! Kids - if you can't get potassium nitrate, just get someone to purchase some sodium chlorate weedkiller from the garden centre. No problem that it's 53% fire-depressant. Just pass it thru' a suitable sieve and the stuff that gets held back is what you're after. Well that's the oxidising agent sorted; the choice of fuel components is up to you.

If kids are going to risk their precious nose-pickers, let them figure it out for themselves. In any case chlorate weedkiller has been banned for sale as weedkiller since 2009. Probably just as well.

 

[An Ankoù]

Our chemistry text book when I was in school had full instructions of how to make gun powder, gun cotton and nitro glycerin. The only bit of the book I bothered to read.

It wasn't Mellor's Modern Inorganic Chemistry circa 1940, by any chance, was it? I read this thing from cover to cover with complete fascination and I sure it's contributed to my love of brewing.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

What are we brewing here Chippy???

Not sure but it'll have one hell of a kick.

 

[terrym]

Weedkiller and sugar. Potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal. Copper tubes. Jetex fuses. Did them all . How I didn't blow myself up I have no idea.
Never managed Ammonium nitrate and diesel though

 

[Gunge]

Homebrewing / cookery / making bombs. I wonder which subset of psychological profiles a shrink would place us in?

 

[marshbrewer]

Regarding the original question, I'm afraid it's JJSH's boring default position that banning something isn't trivial, however attractive it may seem. So it's a no from me, as I'm yet to see comprehensive evidence that it's required or justifies the restriction of liberty.

Now, onto the more fun part of this thread... How I didn't blow my hands off messing about with certain chemicals readily available on farms in the 1970's is a mystery to me. Was great fun though!

 

[MrRook]

Yes they should be banned, but I would say that as I'm a miserable old bleeder. Resourceful youths, as I was, would get round the ban by making their own. Alas, most of them can't make their own dinner, these days.

They'd end up needing both hands to hold up four fingers.

 

[Cwrw666]

It wasn't Mellor's Modern Inorganic Chemistry circa 1940, by any chance, was it? I read this thing from cover to cover with complete fascination and I sure it's contributed to my love of brewing.

I've no idea - I spent most of my time in school staring out of the window safe in the knowledge that eventually I'd be let go home.

 

[BeerCat]

Homebrewing / cookery / making bombs. I wonder which subset of psychological profiles a shrink would place us in?

You could start with "Oppositional defiant disorder" and go on from there.

 

[simon12]

If they ban home brew shall we start a bombing campaign?

 

[Slid]

I would definitely ban fireworks, as I like them almost as much as Chippy Tea's Cat does.