From The Foxfire Book, Volume 5 – © 1979 The Foxfire Fund; Published by Doubleday Books
“Black powder is and isn’t hard to make depending on which end you look at it from. It is a long
and tiresome task if you make more than ten pounds at a time.
“Out on the West Coast, as in some southern states, the trend by the government is to prevent its
sale with mountains of red tape. Making your own black powder, however, is not unlawful as
yet, as far as I know.”