Civilian ownership of submachine guns is regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives under the provisions of the National Firearms Act of 1934 as amended by Title II of the Gun Control Act of 1968.

While many machine guns can be legally owned with a proper tax stamp from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, an amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 barred the transfer to private citizens of machine guns made or registered in the U. S. after May 19, 1986.

In 2007, Lautenberg proposed the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007, designed to deny weapons purchases by persons that the government has placed on the terrorist watchlist.

In Title XI of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Congress enacted the Explosives Control Act, 18 U. S. C. A.

The remaining parts of the Act ( Information, Proceedings and Interpretation, Further Provisions for Northern Ireland, and Supplementary ) are largely technical, although the Northern Ireland provisions extend the right to search property, restricts remission for those convicted of statutory offences, and tightens control over the granting of licenses under the Explosives Act 1875 ( new explosives factories and magazines ).

The remaining parts of the Act ( Information, Proceedings and Interpretation, Further Provisions for Northern Ireland, and Supplementary ) are largely technical, although the Northern Ireland provisions extend the right to search property, restricts remission for those convicted of statutory offences, and tightens control over the granting of licenses under the Explosives Act 1875 ( new explosives factories and magazines ).

* Canada-Firecrackers are not authorized under the Explosives Act, thus making importation, possession, transportation, storage or manufacturing illegal in Canada.

The premises still needed to be licensed under the 1875 Explosives Act, as gunpowder was used in the initiator.

* Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007

Under the National Firearms Act ( NFA ), it is illegal for a private citizen to possess a sawed-off modern smokeless powder shotgun ( a shotgun with a barrel length shorter than or an overall length shorter than ), without a tax-paid registration from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, requiring a background check and either a $ 200 or $ 5 tax for every transfer, depending upon the specific manufacturing circumstances of the particular sawed-off modern shotgun being transferred.

* Explosives Act

Bottle rockets are authorized under the Explosives Act, thus making importation, possession, transportation, storage or manufacturing illegal in Canada.

All National Firearms Act firearms including destructive devices, must be registered with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who then closely monitor use, transport, and storage of the items.

Lecomber was convicted for criminal damage in 1982, offences under the Explosives Act in 1985, and was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment in 1991 for an attack on a Jewish teacher.

However early in 1936, the Society discovered that this ambition was thwarted by the Explosives Act of 1875, which prevented any private testing of liquid-fuel rockets in the United Kingdom.

Cherry bombs are not authorized under the Explosives Act, thus making importation, possession, transportation, storage or manufacturing illegal in Canada.

* October 6, 1917: Explosives Act of 1917, Sess.

Under the Gun Control Act of 1968, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, now the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ( BATFE ) was given wide latitude on the enforcement of regulations pertaining to Federal Firearms License ( FFL ) holders.

Sections 28, 29, 30, and 64 created a range of criminal offences supplementing the Explosive Substances Act 1883 and the Explosives Act 1875.

The Marshals Service publicizes the names of wanted persons it places on the list of U. S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted Fugitives, which is similar to and sometimes overlapping the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Most Wanted List, depending on jurisdiction.

Explosives based on ammonium nitrate have little or no water resistance due to the reaction between ammonium nitrate and water, which liberates ammonia, nitrogen dioxide and hydrogen peroxide.

For example, the U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ) supports the United States ' International Traffic in Arms Regulations ( ITAR ) program " to aggressively enforce this mission and reduce the number of weapons that are illegally trafficked worldwide from the United States and used to commit acts of international terrorism, to subvert restrictions imposed by other nations on their residents, and to organized crime and narcotics-related activities.

The Home Office removed gunpowder from its list of Permitted Explosives ; and shortly afterwards, on 31 December 1931, the former Curtis & Harvey's Glynneath gunpowder factory at Pontneddfechan, in Wales, closed down, and it was demolished by fire in 1932.

* February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations.

Dewar was also the President of the Chemical Society in 1897 and the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1902, as well as serving on the Royal Commission established to examine London's water supply from 1893 to 1894 and the Committee on Explosives.

It was whilst he was serving on the Committee on Explosives that he and Frederick Augustus Abel developed cordite, a smokeless gunpowder alternative.

* " The Chemistry Of Powder And Explosives " by Tenney L. Davis is an outstanding, if outdated, source of information on a great many aspects of high enthalpy compounds.

* U. S. forces search the Latifiyah Explosives and Ammunition Plant, south of Baghdad, and discover thousands of boxes full of vials of a white powdery substance, atropine ( a nerve agent antidote ) and Arabic documents on how to engage in chemical warfare.

Explosives or heavy gunfire can be used to destroy wooden doors, and ( in the case of explosives ) potentially kill anyone within the blast radius on the other side.

Across from the main harbour itself there was a terminal for the ICI-Nobel Explosives plant on the River Garnock.

Adjoining it, on the west, in 1913 an associate venture, the Explosives Loading Company, built a plant to fill bombs and shells.

However, in 1924 a new venture, the Mining Explosives Company, opened a factory on the east side of Faversham Creek, not far from the site of Faversham Abbey — hence its Abbey Works name.

* The 1991 Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Identification

One reviewer of Home Workshop Explosives ( David Harber, author of Guerrilla's Arsenal ) notes that although the chemistry is solid, the chapter on Detonation Systems " borders on insanity.

The original. 50 Action Express bore diameter was. 500 " with conventional rifling, but the switch to polygonal rifling on production Desert Eagles Pistols allowed the gauge plug to drop through, rendering the gun a destructive device under Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( BATFE ) regulations.

Explosives were used to kill a beached humpback whale west of Port Elizabeth on August 6, 2001,

Tungsten has also been used in Dense Inert Metal Explosives, which use it as dense powder to reduce collateral damage while increasing the lethality of explosives within a small radius.

Because they usually contain more than 50 milligrams of the same explosive powder found in firecrackers, they are illegal under U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ) regulations.

The Anglo-American Explosives Company began manufacturing its shotgun powder in Oakland, New Jersey in 1890.

Several United States firms began producing smokeless powder when Winchester Repeating Arms Company started loading sporting cartridges with Explosives Company powder in 1893.

Upon securing a 99-year lease of the Explosives Company in 1903, DuPont enjoyed use of all significant smokeless powder patents in the United States, and was able to optimize production of smokeless powder.

** The troops find white powder and atropine in a section of the Latifiyah Explosives and Ammunition Plant, itself part of Al Qa ' qaa