IIRC ammonium perchlorater already is covered by other regulations. E.g. Hinmeijer has no ammonium perchlorate on his list of chemicals and the same
is true for another well-known seller in the Netherlands (Labstuff). They both have perchlorates on their list, but no ammonium perchlorate. Both,
however, have HClO4 and that can be used as a basis for other perchlorate salts. However, the price for perchloric acid is quite high, it is not a
cheap chemical! I think that this is the reason why perchloric acid, magnesium perchlorate, barium perchlorate, copper perchlorate and maybe some
other metal perchlorates are not on Annex I, simply because they are so expensive that terrorist abuse of these chemicals hardly is possible. You need
multiple kilograms for a serious bomb and making the ingredients from e.g. HClO4 would be VERY expensive and it also would be VERY suspicious if a
customer tries to buy 25 liters of HClO4. Normally that is sold per half a liter, or 250 ml. For home chemistry, however, this may be a viable route
to other perchlorates.
These new regulations are bad, but in some way, they can also be made into an advantage. The really interested people will develop methods and skills
to make their own chemicals. I certainly expect a rise in interest in electrochemistry for making chlorate and perchlorate salts and a rise in
interest in making NOx from air, or more easily from nitrites, which in turn can be used to make HNO3. And I also expect sites like eBay and certain
online stores to be flooded with MMO-anodes, PbO2 anodes and other materials, needed for building chlorate and perchlorate cells. Probably this will
be so within a year, maybe two.
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I'd like to hook a few up together sometime, though.