Yesterday, overriding resistance from the farming community, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that will require registration and background checks to purchase ammonium nitrate, a popular fertilizer and potentially lethal explosive. The substance has been used in any number of terror attacks across the globe including Timothy McVeigh's bomb in Oklahoma City and the 1996 IRA bomb at South Quay (pronounced "Key") in London that destroyed the building I was working in at the time and nearly destroyed me.
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