Crypto's still regulated, even though you can easily get high quality encryption stuff outside the US.
Or write your own with a copy of "Applied Cryptography", or...

Crap like this comes from some congress person saying "Well, we certainly can't be seen as endorsing this sort of thing. Harumph. Sends the wrong message. Harumph.". Or maybe anything "radioactive" is dangerous to the average congress person. One thing I'm sure of is that it's not because it's dangerous. Or maybe it is, and Europeans routinely build nuclear bombs in science class. Frenchy? <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

So... hypothetically speaking, of course, what's the best way to go about getting a tritium glow ring thingy? I'd love to have a slot cut into the side of my HDS 60 to accomodate a little tritium vial. Ever tried taking apart a gun sight? Can it be done without damaging the tritium capsules?

Yeap, we do.
I already told you about preparing nitroglycerine : that was during chemistry classes.
During physics classes, I once had to build a small nuclear engine. Then I again did a mistake and it did work : no BOOOOMM, just a FZZZLE...
Since that time, curiously, I no longer need a light to read a book in the dark. I sort of glimmer in the night ... a nice bluish light... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

These lights a A LOT smaller than a photon.

I had lunch with a LEO (Captain, SAPD) friend today, and I mentioned this subject. He laughed really hard, and told me that we wil not see ANY more radiation based lighting devices for the foreseeable future because the Department of 'Homeland' Security has put a freeze on them. Current tritiuim is OK because they have calibrated their detection gizmos to ignore it (on a good day) rather tha just miss it (which is usually). He's been to conferences pretty much all over setting up bike patrols for other departments, and he's pretty cynical about the DHS. (which, in a wonderful peice of irony, in Texas also means Department of Human Services)\

That is who I work for(DHS)...
Maybe that is why we just changed our name to HHSC(Health and Human Services Commision)...

IMO. those bobber lights are a worthy addition to even the smallest kit.