You can construct a fuel air bomb with a can of fuel and a charcoal fire. You can make a Boling Liquid Air Explosion with a propane bottle and a gas burner.
You can make nitrates out of rotting dung.
Sure, C1 plastic explosives would be better, but anyone with a basic knowledge of chemistry can work something out.
And as we see in the UK, once they've got your firearms they start confiscating all pointy objects.
The Irish know very well that bombs are easier to make than guns.
That's why across the EU or UK they're restricting access to materials which causes problems for all sorts of other normal household or business uses.
They can't ban nitrates. Or fuel.
You can construct a fuel air bomb with a can of fuel and a charcoal fire. You can make a Boling Liquid Air Explosion with a propane bottle and a gas burner.
You can make nitrates out of rotting dung.
Sure, C1 plastic explosives would be better, but anyone with a basic knowledge of chemistry can work something out.