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THERE WOULD EXIST A WELL PRONOUNCED "RING" OF POWDER BURN WADDING MATERIAL AND UNBURNED POWDER RESIDUE AROUND THE GLORY HOLE.

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No one except the Bush administration could create a situation where I end up defending Max Hardcore.

The plywood is subflooring. At a minimum, there was carpet above it. The powder marks would have ended up on the flooring material above the subflooring.

When Max was quoted in AdultFYI, he said several times that the raid was at his house, so office building codes don't apply. I don't know what the building codes are in CA, but plywood that thin isn't uncommon in residential subflooring.

I don't care how well trained the FBI agents are, they're human. The idea that all agents will follow the rule book all the time under all conditions is ridiculous. Somebody got bored, started playing with his shotgun, flipped the safety off, on, off again, tugged on the trigger....boom.

If you're going to test Max's story by discharging a shotgun through plywood, remember to find out what the upper layer of Max's flooring is and put a layer of that over the plywood before firing. Otherwise, you won't be reproducing the conditions under which the shotgun was fired. Also, if you're standing that close to the surface the buckshot strikes, what are the odds of any of those little pellets ricocheting? Do you think you may want goggles? I don't know. It's been years since I fired a shotgun.