A scientific supply company says the Consumer Product Safety Commission has taken aim at chemistry sets:

The United States CPSC has initiated criminal legal action against us and other chemical suppliers.

In short, the CPSC would like to ban the public from all access to chemicals. This would mean an end to hobbies such as model rocketry, pyrotechnics and of course chemistry. One by one, our freedoms are slowly being taken away from us – this action must be stopped now.

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This forbids or very severely limits sale of all common oxidizers and many common pyrotechnic fuels to anyone who does not hold a manufacturing license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF). To require everyone who wants to work with common chemicals to hold a BATF “Explosives Manufacturing License”… even though they are not manufacturing explosives, is completely insane.

Ah, but think about “how many lives this will save.” And when you’re bureaucrat, banning stuff is fun!

This entry was posted on Monday, May 1st, 2006 at 7:42 am by Radley Balko and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.