I was thinking that. Why is it so fucking hard for people to make bombs? You can make black powder in your kitchen out of shit you have lying around. It's like a 11,000 year old recipy! And that's not even getting in to how bad people are at making petrol bombs like christ's sake you are literally filling a glass jar with gasoline how do you fail at that?
In fairness almost everyone in Australia knows how to make something explosive. If you didn't fuck around with canisters of hairspray or black powder in the school field, you definitely read the third book of the "Tomorrow" series where the teen terrorists blow up an entire port with ANFO and the author describes what it looks like and how to get it from any random farm shed.
I am very fond of the idea that white Australia is made up entirely of various sorts of delinquents. "
Controlling ammonia nitrate fertilizer, especially after the OKC Federal Building bombing in the USA in the early 90s, has been a major obective of the US domestic counterintelligence services.
literally any australian child who hasn't made a sparkler bomb before they graduate high school should be deported to terf island so they can mince about with their tory toff soulmates
3:2:1 charcoal, nitre, sulphur. Grind fine with non-sparking materials. Make sure not to heat. Mix well, again in a manner that won't generate static or sparks. Wet in to a paste, extrude in long lines ~1mm wide. Chop in to 1mm x 1mm corns. Dry. Store in a cool, dry place away from fire and heated cannonballs. Gunpowder readily absorbs moisture from the atmosphere and thus has a limited shelf life. For meat dishes - use as a salt substitute to taste. For coffee - Use a small amount to taste. Adds flavor to soups and salads. (I'm not kidding gunpowder was sometimes used to flavor food when other spices were lacking)
Edit: Don't try to use smokeless powder or cordite for cooking i have no idea if they're toxic or what. I mean, black powder is probably toxic, too, but I'm not your parent.
Edit edit; I think you can use small amounts of gum, like gum arabic or something, to bind the corns together (corns, in this case, being the small chopped up pieces which are a similar size to individual cereal grains)
Edit: My bad it's actuall 3:2:1 nitre charcoal sulphur. Or something idk I didn't look it up if 10th century Chinese scientists can figure it out you probably can at least do it with help from Google.
Also look up how nitre was gathered and processed in the modern and pre-modern area. Lots of weird stuff, like fermenting huge amounts of horse poop to refine nitre out of it!
If you want to ruin someone's day, you can get sparkler dust, rust, and powdered aluminium to make a thermite bomb to melt through someone's engine block that will be lit with a lighter.