I believe it was in the early 1990s my brother had no problems buying saltpeter and sulfur from the pharmacy here in Norway. I remember my brother mixing it up.

I seem to remember that we did a lot of dumb and reckless stuff in the 80s and early 90s. Somehow back in elementary school we got this thing called the "terrorist handbook." I think we got it through swapping floppy disks. There was vast sneaker networks then of people swapping floppy disks. Some even had mail connections from what I can recall.

Me and my elementary school friend got buy making explosives. Thanfully our English skills were too bad at the time to figure out the recipe and so we avoided blowing ourselves up.

I did talk with others from my generation about this kind of stuff. One recalled stealing dynamite and blowing it up. I remember hearing a lot of stories like that about people nicking dynamite from construction sites or grave yards (in Northern Scandinavia the soil is too hard in winter).

Another guy made gunpowder in his dads shed that they hooked up remote controls to. They accidentally burned down the shed.

We did a lot of stuff I don't think I would allow my kids to do today. All us kids used to go around with knives I remember. We played this game where we through knives in the ground. Sometimes you almost through the knife in your foot. Kind of nuts when I think about it now.

The bad kids went around shooting birds and people with air rifles. I keep thinking when people say everything is so much worse today, that they must have some amnesia. Sure there are many things I miss about the 80s but there was also a lot of problems then we don't have today.