What's going on Canada?
🍁 Meta
🗺️ Provinces / Territories
🏙️ Cities / Local Communities
Sorted alphabetically by city name.
🏒 Sports
Baseball
Basketball
Curling
Hockey
Soccer
💻 Schools / Universities
Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.
💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales
🗣️ Politics
🍁 Social / Culture
Rules
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca
Was the gun legal? Were there reasonable explanations for the chemicals? Could they also be used in a grow op or drug lab?
There’s been many times when I’ve had chemicals that could be used to make explosives in my home. I’ve even made and detonated explosives on occasion. But I didn’t do so after stealing the ingredients from a local university.
It said somewhere in the article that the trespasser was arrested with a loaded handgun. So I mean yeah, busting into places with a loaded handgun is generally pretty frowned upon. Even if it's legally possessed, it's now also illegally handled.
I mean you don't bust into labs armed for the purposes of general hobbies or whatever, you wouldn't think, right? To me that makes me think that if someone was going to catch him, he would consider shooting them, which is sort of serious business. I'm thinking there's a lot more to come out about this story, unless these guys are just really that into rockets.
Who among us hasn't made a small explosive for fun? No, am not being sarcastic. I've been raised with loud NYE celebrations.
I’m just trying to figure out how the charges make sense; they’re charged with unlawful possession of explosives even though it’s not illegal to possess explosive substances, and they didn’t actually HAVE any explosive substances on the premises — just substances that could be combined.
The only argument I can see is that they had them in volume, and the chemicals in question were volatile enough how they were stored to be a safety threat.
So anyone with fertilizer and fuel oil could be charged with possessing precursor chemicals?
Apparently.