This may be naive or a Captain Obvious statement,  but seriously … if it’s so easy to make an extremely powerful explosive using muriatic acid, shouldn’t muriatic acid be more difficult to buy?

9News reports http://www.9news.com/news/investigative/article.aspx?storyid=123404

Muriatic acid is hydrochloric acid that is legitimately used for masonry work, cleaning concrete and oil spills. Chemists say it can be easily converted into an explosive device.

“You can mix it with hydrogen peroxide and acetone to make TAPT (triacetone triperoxide). Its crystals are more explosive than TNT,” chemist Lynn Reimer said who owns a meth-lab clean-up company called ACT On Drugs, Inc. “The crystals are shock-sensitive that go off when they dry.”

Reimer says that kind of chemical explosive was used by Richard Reid, the so-called shoe-bomber, who tried to light the fuse on the explosives in his shoes on a flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

Imagine how many tax dollars are being spent on the FBI investigation of Najibullah Zazi of Arapahoe County, Colorado.  Wouldn’t it have been better if  Najibullah Zazi couldn’t buy the materials needed to assemble a bomb?  What if non-licensed contractors needed to fill out paperwork, like you do when you buy a gun whenever you purchased muriatic acid?  Nothing high tech, just paperwork and a quick background check (like e-verify from homeland security).

Just something to think about …

Stop selling Muriatic acid