Re: Senator Frank Lautenburg on S.724

On the website is a form to send a message to the Senator. I suggest everyone, regardless of what state they live in, send a message simply stating that APCP is NOT explosive.

Well, if any of you out there actually voted for these morons...

I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY NOW!!!!!! :-(

This is what you get when you allow socialist leftovers from 3 decades ago go to Washington and use anything they can get their hands on to grandstand and give the appearance that they are caring and watching out for you!

It's also what you get, in general, when you vote for a Democrat but that's another story.

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And that is is a SLOW burning solid below even the threshold of Flammable Solid under UN regulations, much less an explosive of any type deflagrating included.

And that APCP was NOT used by the unabomber.

Jerry

The fact is that it's the Justice dept letter that got these guys fired up. Which isn't staffed by democrats as far as I know.

I just did.

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I've contacted Schumer in the past using his website and have never received a response. I believe it's time to send a registered letter direct to him, with a faxed copy to each of his offices, and then a follow up call to his local office and his DC office. Depending on his response, I may or may not vote for Schumer again.

-John DeMar

David Schultz wrote:

I think you ought to also start with the current administration as well bub. Don't see them on our side in this dire straight of rocket regulations and saving our freedoms.

KMJK

Why do I get the feeling that these two bozos are puppets of Kohl?

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

I sent my comments too - and got an auto response stating that the senator can only respond to e-mails from his state - which is to be expected from any elected official. I wonder if any of our comments are being read!

Dale Greene SPAAR 503

Come on, John. Can you honestly say that you would EVER vote for Schumer? You'd have to have had quite a complete lobotomy for that to occur. ;-)

Mark Simpson NAR 71503 Level II God Bless our peacekeepers

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:21:01 -0400, Mark Simpson is alleged to have written:

Here's mine:

Congratulations, Senator. You have, with your recent press release concerning senate bill 724, managed to exceed my expectations. I expect politicians to lie to advance their own careers. I don't expect them to be so blatant about it, however.

What planet do you live on, and what color is the sky there?

Here on earth, Ammonium Perclorate Composite Propellant doesn't explode. In fact, when common propellant formulations are tested for "explosive classification", you find out that it burns too slow to even be classified as a flammable solid. It doesn't detonate. It doesn't deflagrate. It burns, at a rate of about 1/32" per second. Paper burns at about the same rate.

You claim that hobby rockets could be easily turned into weapons. I ask you then, if that laughable claim is true, why aren't you voting to eliminate funding for multi-billion dollar missile development programs? After all, you could just give a hobbyist a few hundred bucks and acheive the same goals.

In reality, hobby rocket propellants make for very bad weapon delivery systems. If a terrorist wanted to use a missile to deliver a weapon to a target, he'd just buy a US-made military missile on the black market (or just use one that our government *gave* to his government in the past). Why choose the least-effective method?

In fact, there have been a grand total of ZERO instances of hobby rockets being used as weapons delivery systems anywhere in the world. If it made sense to use them as weapons, don't you think *someone* would have done so by now?

Rocketry is a safe, educational hobby. Astronauts, senators, and leaders of industry have all participated in this hobby, which has inspired the career choices of many of the scientists and engineers that put America at the forefront of the world, technologically.

Opposing legislation to loosen rules on buying non-explosive rocket fuel is not just irresponsible, it's crazy!

I beg you to get off your soapbox, take a few deep breaths to allow your head to clear, and take a look at the reality of the situation: Rocketry is a harmless hobby with a 45-plus year record of safely inspiring tomorrow's engineers and scientists, and poses no threat to anyone.

Regulating harmless activities just makes you look stupid.

Sincerely,

Richard T. Dickinson

Sock puppets of Senator Kohl? Is that the same thing as getting a lump of Kohl in your stocking? Or the Hanukkah equivalent of that.

-John

The burn rate of USR propellants UNDER PRESSURE is 0.11-0.32 ips (FS to fast). AT, AMW/K/KE, Ellis, AT propellants are similar.

Not under pressure they run under the threahold 2.2mm/s to be classified an unregulated plastic.