Senator Chuckie "Putzhead" (to use Al D'Amato's term) Schumer teams up with his pallie across the Hudson, the apparently ever-increasingly senile Frank Lautenberg, to destroy the model rocket industry. They're fighting to keep Senator Enzi's bill from becoming law. The headline of the press release is typically stupid and false:

Lautenberg, Schumer Join Forces to Stop Republican Attempts to Pass Legislation That Would Make it Easier for Terrorists to Build Missiles in US

Well, it's true that Lautenberg and Schumer are joining forces, but the rest of it is ridiculous, as I've previously discussed.
There are many better and cheaper ways of building weapons than using model rocket propellant (which is not, no matter how many times the Senators repeat the lie, an "explosive").

To quote the aging junior Senator from New Jersey:

"Sometimes the things you see in Congress make you scratch your head in wonderment."

Indeed, but his irony detector must be severely on the fritz. As is the case with yesterday's bloviating about "making bets on death," I don't know what's worse, to think that they're really this brainless, or that they think that we are.

Could be worse: you could be represented by Putzhead. I have that dubious honor.

Maybe so, Josh, but Rand is represented by both Boxer and Feinstein...

And Rand, I'm beginning to believe guys like Chuckles and Lout, a Borg actually think it's a good thing to be setting off the irony detectors.

Well, actually, as a Wyoming resident, Mike Enzi is my Senator. I own a house in LA, but I'm not a resident--I vote in Wyoming.

My fave part is the fuses, matches, and ignitors. I guess matches are electric matches. I just recieved an email saying they can no longer be sold without a LEUP. Of course at any launch you can buy homemade ones. Then there are the infamous Aerotech copperhead ignitors, we should make sure terrorist use those. 5,4,3,2,1, LAUNCH! ah we have a misfire. Then the calls of SLUNKERHEAD!, CRAPPERHEAD! come from the flightline.

Wyoming! Sorry, I did know that but forgot.

The stupidity of these two (and many other) Senators is just beyond comprehension. Not only does solid propellant make a very poor explosive, But anyone with the desire and expertise to build a serious missile, capable of delivering an effective payload on target, would be easily able to do so using the liquid fuel technology employed by bucks-up large scale model rocketeers.

But, TTBOMK, liquid fuel models are all expensive, scratch-built creations. It would be doubtful that too many tyro modelers would commit to such an investment before sampling the water with a few Estes-type kits.

I've just learned you have to go over about two oz. of propellent to be covered by this. So the little Estes-type rockets are not a problem. However, there's still a huge gap between that and something that would be a viable missile. I stand by my opinion.