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[Dan Duncan]

On 4/11/07, Wesley W. Will <wwill at siu.edu> wrote:
> Dan Duncan wrote:
> > On 4/10/07, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
> >> I'd say that walking distance from the Houses of Parliament is a worse place
> >> to be...
> >
> > Where would one get THAT much gunpowder in this day and age?
>
> from the stock rooms of any of the several firearm or farm stores in my
> area, for one.  the local gun nut hangouts probably keep 50 or 60 kilos
> of the stuff, each store, on hand.  that'd make a pretty large boom, if
> you set it off all at once.  rob three stores and you'd get enough to
> bring almost anything down.

History says it was about 1800 lbs. and the nursery rhyme pegs it at
three score barrels.

-- 
Dan Duncan