Trump shot?

[TheRedneck]

It looks like an X10 remote to me. Anyone alive before 2000 might have had one of these for home automation.

While I'm not familiar with the exact model, it does appear to be a DTMF remote, fairly common for general electronics experimentation. It uses a specified carrier wave modulated by a combination of two different audio tones, one for the row and the other for the column. They come in 3x3,  3x4, 4x3, and 4x4 configurations. If used for activation of a specific circuit, it would be able to access 12 different devices.

It could also use several encryption methods, but that would be overkill for a detonator. No one would be expecting a signal, so no one would be looking to decrypt any signal that came across the airwaves. Sort of overkill to my mind.
 

A friend of mine owns a 2014 and I used it to cart home a water heater. A "12 foot" ladder isn't much larger because a folded 12' is 6' and it's actually less than that... Go to your garage and pull out a tape measure.

The ladder pictured was not a foldable ladder. It would have been nominally 12' long. You're thinking of a foldable ladder which can be transported at half its length.

TheRedneck