When did fireworks become legal?

[CatWoman]

every where I go, there's tents and tents full of fireworks for sale.

I remember a time when one had to go as far as Tennessee in order to buy them.

Now they're everywhere.

And I'm in a red state, too. Freepers and Fire DO NOT mix well.

[Mutley]

1. There are a bunch of people in my neighborhood

who enjoy setting them off in the middle of the busy street in the middle of the night. Gotta love it :eyes:

[Kraklen]

2. It's just the opposite here.

Fireworks were everywhere when I was a kid. Laws keep getting stricter and stupider. The only thing they're allowed to sell are little cones that shoot sparks no more then three or four feet high. They can't even sell those "snakes" anymore because they're poisonous and they're worried little kids will eat them. A person has to go way out to indian reservations to get anything decent.

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. you're lucky

Here in NJ you can't get anything harder than sparklers, even in PA I can't find any good stuff. I guess I'd have to take a run to South of the Border to get some hard-core fireworks

[TimeChaser]

6. In PA

Costco's selling HUGE firework packs. Not the best stuff, but I don't remember seeing them sold in stores in PA before.

[Reverend_Smitty]

8. hmmm maybe it's a new law

what part of PA? Because I don't know where any Costcos are around me

[tigereye]

10. huh

I'm in Pittsburgh, I always thought they were illegal in Pa., not that that stops anyone. :evilgrin:

Eveyone just went to Ohio!

[LynneSin]

31. I've always seen minor fireworks sold in PA but...

..not the stuff that could harm or maim someone while using (well unless you decide to try and swallow something lit then you're a dumbass that should be harmed or maimed)

[Zuni]

13. I went through PA last year and found some boss fireworks

nothing like South carolina, but they had better stuff than maryland, which is now a Fireworks legal state

[micrometer_50]

4. They've been legal in Montana since before

I was born in 1950.

:applause:

[LastKnight]

5. its odd,

here, fireworks are illegal for all but a few weeks a year, but on the state line in the tri state area... theirs about 5 shops all in a row... their open all summer even though youre only allowed to have them last few weeks of june and first few weeks of july...

[LynneSin]

7. Sweetie, you're from the south - that's a normal thing

You southerns don't want us messing with your god given rights to blow-up random body parts from drunking fireworks use.

It's so funny when I drive from DE to MD, I know when I'm in MD when I start seeing the firework stands.

[Zuni]

16. Fireworks were illegal here in MD until like 2 years ago

For years we had to go to PA or VA to get any kind of decent fireworks.

[LynneSin]

28. PA has never had legal fireworks other than the cheesy harmless stuff

Sparklers, snaps - stuff that Joe Dirt would ridicule

[DemBones DemBones]

41. Sparklers can and do injure people,

despite a "safe" reputation.


Re: your condescending attitude toward us "Southerns":

Mexicans like fireworks, too, do you make fun of them?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. They're still illegal in MD in some counties...

Montgomery recently held an amnesty day for people to turn in fireworks. They're illegal in Prince Georges too...

[Elidor]

9. Yeah, we have it all in Tennessee

Mortars! I love mortars. BOOM!!! BOOM!!! BOOM!!!

But the older I get, the less I want to mess with them. They're pretty dangerous.

[Brewman_Jax]

11. I passed a fireworks tent in the mall parking lot yesterday

I was thinking, "What'd I miss?" :shrug:

We drove to Alabama to get fireworks years ago, that was a little over an hour's drive

[Zuni]

12. You still have to go into the deep south to get the real good shit

but I am glad Maryland legalized fireworks because I hated to have to drive all the way to virginia to get shit

[AlCzervik]

14. when i lived in Texas you could get some really good fireworks

the big ones, we used hammer pvc pipes into the lawn to launch some of them.

[Zuni]

17. oh yeah. I love the cannons

A friend of mine made a bottle rocket launcher that you fired like an RPG once. We doused a sombero with gasoline and took turns firing bottle rockets at it until it burst into flames. It was great. :D

[AlCzervik]

20. some of the kids in the neighborhood used to aim everything at the

port-o-pottys and a few times they actually got them to tip.

[Zuni]

21. that is awesome

[AlCzervik]

24. yeah it was pretty damn funny, needless to say some of the neighbors

were not as amused as my husband and i were but oh well.

[pnb]

15. If you are in GA like me

I've been seeing stuff around too. Its all bunches of stuff that do nothing but throw out some sparks and they all seem to cost $22.

Still have to go to South Carolina to get the fun stuff.

[Zuni]

18. That is what we get in MD

South carolina is one of the states that will sell you C-4 and mortar shells. I wish I could get down there now to pick up some of the good shit!

[CatWoman]

19. I'm in Atlanta

where are you?

:hi:

[pnb]

29. Northern burbs of Atlanta

Gwinnett County. Howdy neighbor. :)

[CatWoman]

30. Howdy!!!!!

:hi:

we're closer than you think -- actually I'm in Stone Mountain. I work in Chamblee, and have many, many coworkers who live in Gwinnett.

[pnb]

32. Even smaller than you think

My wife used to work in Chamblee also.

[RebelOne]

37. I'm sort of a neighbor. I live in Cherokee County.

[CatWoman]

39. you know, Ulysses just moved out your way

just this past weekend.

:hi:

[Dukkha]

22. There everywhere here too

back in the 80's you'd have to drive to the south for "Crazy Joe's" for "Uncle Jim's" now the Targets and Meijer here sell them. I'm in the mood to blow up some watermelons with some M-80s.

[Shell Beau]

23. But its fun!!!! And pretty!

[AllegroRondo]

25. I pass a church selling fireworks every day

big tent out in the parking lot.

I make jokes to my wife about buying 'Fireworks for Jesus'.

[MercutioATC]

26. It depends on state law.

In Ohio it's legal to buy them and legal to sell them, but it's not legal to use them.

:eyes:

[Beware the Beast Man]

27. It seems, in a number of states,

firewoks are legal to buy and sell, but not to light. :wtf:

If I recall, when I lived in PA, fireworks dealers in the state could sell to out-of-staters, but no PA citizens. :shrug:

I just say make them legal.

[catmandu57]

34. I'm in Mo, there are two year round

big ass fireworks stores just down the road a few miles. Missouri residents aren't allowed to buy them except for a few weeks each year, but they're right by a busy interstate hyway, and if you can prove you live out of state they're more than happy to take your dollar.
Every year it's like living in Iraq here, the explosions get louder and louder, hell, my stepson has been making pipebombs for the fourth for years.
I hope he doesn't blow himself up, or get busted.

[indigo32]

35. we have limited stuff in MN now

Much better stuff in WI I believe,
and as a kid, my brothers always got their black cats and M-80s in South Dakota.

[Ariana Celeste]

36. Here in Indiana

You can buy fireworks at the local grocery store. :shrug:

[DemBones DemBones]

38. Fireworks were legal in Georgia back in

the late Fifties, maybe later, but banned by the early Seventies. I don't know why the change but I'll bet all those state line fireworks business owners are mad as hell!

[Divameow77]

40. To the Georgians

I will be in Kingston GA this weekend from Minnesota to visit family. I'm thinking of moving there. Any suggestions on what to do while I'm visiting?