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JAK:
Don't know if anyone has seen these yet or not, but they look interesting.

They are a bottle cap that screws onto a plastic bottle, you then pressurize the bottle with air.

When shot, the release of air causes a loud bang.

The only limitation is what ever you shoot them with needs to be able to break the bottle.

It may not be the same as Tannerite, but they do not fall under explosive regulations.

The link to the website is below and I found a 10-pack at Buds Gun Shop for under $15.

http://www.bigblastcaps.com/

sidearm1:
As always, sounds fun until someone does something stupid with it.  Someone will hear the boom and call the police and then they have to make a decision on what to do.

[28-1213 (a) (I)
(7)(a) Destructive devices means:
(i) Any explosive, incendiary, chemical or biological poison, or poison gas (A) bomb, (B) grenade, (C) rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, (D) missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, (E) mine, (F) booby trap, (G) Molotov cocktail, (H) bottle bomb, (I) vessel or container intentionally caused to rupture or mechanically explode by expanding pressure from any gas, acid, dry ice, or other chemical mixture, or (J) any similar device, the primary or common purpose of which is to explode and to be used as a weapon against any person or property; or
(ii) Any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any device into a destructive device as defined in subdivision (7)(a)(i) of this section from which a destructive device may be readily assembled.
(b) The term destructive device does not include (i) any device which is neither designed nor redesigned for use as a weapon to be used against person or property, (ii) any device, although originally designed for use as a weapon, which is redesigned for use as a signaling, pyrotechnic, line-throwing, safety, or similar device, (iii) surplus ordnance sold, loaned, or given by the Secretary of the Army pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 4684(2), 4685, or 4686, as such sections existed on March 7, 2006, (iv) any other device which the Nebraska State Patrol finds is not likely to be used as a weapon or is an antique, or (v) any other device possessed under circumstances negating an intent that the device be used as a weapon against any person or property;]

And like tannerite, the State Patrol will have to do something to "Protect the public".  The second section should have protected tannerite, but with Administrative duties, the State Patrol can change the designation.

RLMoeller:
I don't see how they could prove anything related to that ordnance.  This isn't any different from popping a balloon, and hopefully that is still legal.

JimP:
...... I blow up water bottles and milk jugs with the same alacrity- just use an expanding bullet in just about any centerfire caliber.  Just fill the bottle or jug completely up with plain old water:  water won't compress and the bottles or jugs will pop nicely, nothing to buy, and they'll fill a lot faster from a garden hose than from that footpump .....

depserv:
I'm apparently not very good at reading legaleze so let me ask: does this edict make it illegal to use a torch setup to mix oxygen and acetylene in a baggy and lay it where sparks from a welder will fall on it and make it pop?  Not saying anyone should do anything like this but just wondering if it would be illegal based on this edict.  In fact no one should do it because it doesn't take much to make a really big bang.

Or how about mixing oxygen and acetylene in a baggy and using it as an exploding target, since it's shock sensitive?  (And dangerous to play with for the same reason.)

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