It is legal to sell fireworks in Az now

[Monique1]

This is sad - I hope people are attending to their children at that time - they don't watch their children at the pool or driveways where many children die or maimed.


http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2010/11/23/20101123arizona-fireworks-legal-sale.html#comments

[Edweird]

1. You're hand wringing over sparkers and smoke bombs? Seriously?

They sell that stuff in grocery stores here.

[Kali]

2. that's a little melodramatic

anyway, the good ones are still illegal

a burned finger or two and no issues of forbidden fruit temptation will likely make this pretty much a non-issue

[Renew Deal]

3. It's never been legal in NY

But it's fascinating to go to places that sell them legally like PA or TN. The names of the fireworks seem to all be double entendre's.

[Poll_Blind]

4. One day a year, Americans are given a free pass to ignorantly handle explosives.

It's a tradition, damnit!

PB

[rfranklin]

5. NY Man Blows Off Arm with Fireworks!

NY man blows off arm with fireworks
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Share this on:Mixx Facebook Twitter Digg delicious reddit MySpace StumbleUpon LinkedIn July 04, 2010|By the CNN Wire Staff
Like fireworks, it has become an Independence Day weekend tradition unto itself: fireworks-related injury.

On Saturday, a man lighting fireworks outside his Long Island home became the latest victim when he completely severed his left arm from his shoulder, Suffolk County police said.

Eric Smith, 36, was using a three-foot-long metal tube to shoot mortars near his Islip Terrace home on Saturday evening. One of the explosives shot out and struck him in the left arm, taking it off, said police.

[Poll_Blind]

6. Not surprising. Ok, a little surprising and pretty grisly. n/t

PB

[Locrian]

7. thats sad

I live in Indiana - where it's pretty much a free for all. Yeah, no M80s etc but the aerial stuff (mortars etc) is freaking scary stuff. I really dont get how some of them are legal.

Every year you see people spending $300-500-1000 blowing up their money. Sounds like a damn war zone for weeks around the 4th of July.

BTW - I thought they were already leagal in AZ?
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