Thread: Proper black powder

There’s this falla in the UK....has shit loads of the stuff I’ll see if I can dig him up!

Name of Guy Fawkes anyone know him

Originally Posted by Sideshow

There’s this falla in the UK....has shit loads of the stuff I’ll see if I can dig him up!

Name of Guy Fawkes anyone know him

Last honest man in parliament...

Originally Posted by Cordite

It is illegal to buy or store black powder (legal definition: mix of salpetre, sulfur and charcoal) without a FAL, and you may not have more than 1.5kg of it sitting about.

But is it really illegal to manufacture small amounts of black powder IF you have a FAL + lawful purpose? I don't think so, but someone PLEASE correct me...

Most legislation I could find rightly (and practically) focuses on possession and establishing that someone has a lawful purpose for her possession of black powder. It's of course hard to prove someone manufactured the BP she was found in possession of, so more practical to focus on the element of her possession-without-lawful-reason of black powder. Likewise as with other explosives, the pertinent question is lawful possession and purpose. There are sensible health and safety rules for handling, storage and transportation you must adhere to.

I did actually look this up (quite a while ago). It's one of those stupid legal grey-holes. You can HAVE it, but you can't make it (outside an approved manufacturing facility) and no-one can sell or give it to you. And the limit was 10lbs.

Originally Posted by 40mm

You guys wanna be careful what you say online. it is illegal to manufacture powder without the proper permission slip from the gestapo. I mean from the Gummint.

Sorry, That must be my dyslexia playing up. What I meant was "not me"

(If the cops have time to harrass me then I damn well expect ALL the other crime is solved and they literally have nothing better to do.)

Good luck getting you back yard an “approved facility” good apply under the mental health as an approved FAL person?

Originally Posted by Maca49

Good luck getting you back yard an “approved facility” good apply under the mental health as an approved FAL person?

English translation please someone?


The legal requirements to manufacture are laid out in legislation. Access controls, magazines and licensing and the whatnot. My backyard may have somewhat more acreage than yours.

Do you mean fit and proper? Like a pathetic white supremacist australian twat?

And you think I can and will read, I’d just finish and they’d change the law?

Here's some really serious BP experimentation with a few clues to those of you on this thread who seem to not be able to get your powders to burn quite right. Who says homeschooling is boring?!? And safety precautions are spot on.