CNN Erin Burnett OutFront November 10, 2015 00:06:00
Cake. and that's imodium nitrate and aluminum powder, basically fertilizer and aluminum. >> 90% of the stuff we have here you don't have to have a license to buy. i can go in a truck and come home with probably 90% of this. >> reporter: in experienced hands the bomb itself easy enough to make. setting them off another matter. >> all i'm going to do is place it right inside. >> reporter: a blasting cap like this one, a smaller explosion used to set off a larger one necessary. the blasting cap itself needs a tiny electrical charge. we used a wire detonator for these demonstrations. only 1.5 volt...