I’d be fine if everyone just voiced your first two phrases and left the other two unspoken.
I didn’t know how to say it otherwise. But, yes, I agree. But that’s essentially what is happening now. The approach is you can own as many firearms as you want, the regulation is by making it difficult and expensive to get components. Many crafty folks, including myself, can cast bullets. Can’t regulate that. Brass is difficult to get often, sometimes impossible. Cannot make that at home, for most folks. Likewise, with black powder. Most cannot make that at home. Some can, and that’s not something most folks will do, and it’s dangerous. Primers are increasingly difficult to get and are regulated as to availability and, when available, an exponential increase in cost over the last few years.
But I digress. The original topic was Gene Stoner, the inventor of the AR 15, it’s circa 1930, and he sets off a pipe bomb. Compressed concentrated device. How would that compare to just setting on fire a can of one pound of black powder not compressed? Or what if Stoner had no pipe, but set off a chain of five one pound containers of black powder?
The book doesn’t go into much detail as to the damage Stoner caused with gum powder, although it states he created a hole in the side of his boyhood home with a rocket.
Maybe if you played with pipe bombs or black powder growing up, you understand more than I. All I know is what about 70 grains in a .50-70 Government case can do when fired from a rifle, as compressed 1/16” to 1/8” by the cast bullet when seating it. And firing that round, or .40-65, .40-82, or .32-40, etc.
I guess, indirectly, I’m asking the power of a loaded round with black powder vs a pipe bomb vs just detonating a pound of black powder in its original container, vs maybe 5 lbs in a pile on the ground.
Or, maybe let’s think of this simpler.
A .50-70 Government round puts a .512 hole in a paper target.
Stoner’s pipe bomb blasted a hole of unspecified size.
If I detonate one pound of black powder in its original container on the ground, what are the consequences/how big a hole blasted if any?
Now, let’s place 5 one pound containers of black powder and ignite, what are the consequences, if any, other than ignited containers of black powder?