I just heard on the BBC World Service radio that the amateur rocketeers in the US will all have to photographed and fingerprinted by the ATF as the ATF has stated that they supposedly are considered to be dealing with/using "explosives" [and no doubt, foreign terrorists have infiltrated the rocketry groups and are planning rocket attacks on the Pentagon and Whitehouse right now].

A fact which the National Association of Rocketry dispute as the small "engines" that power their rockets burn at a rate of "centimetres per second" rather than hundreds (or thousands) of meters per second for most explosives.

The NAR spokesman also stated that all their launches of all such rockets are already "controlled"/managed by the FAA and have been for years - so why the sudden shift from FAA control to ATF control?

I can't find a link to post about this story, but if its true, then it represents another step on the path to further erosion of civil rights in the US.