(OT, sorry) For those of us in The South...

[jasper]

Montgomery Al. What is really strange is walmart was selling imitation fireworks. Fireworks without fire? It look like some had glitter with compress air in a tube for roman candles.
It illegal to sell in the city limits and illegal to use but. the neighbors down the street had some nice bottle rockets going up. Plus I was too lazy to go down to the river for the city's display.

 

[Mystic_23]

Here in Idaho, it's illegal to buy M-80's and so forth, but I think it's more city law than state law. You can find stands out beyond the city limits where you can buy most anything you want. Inside the cities, you can buy everything up to bottle rockets and roman candles, but nothing much stronger than that. There is one perminant building just outside of Middleton, with the humorous name of "Ill Eagle Fireworks". But I think it's only open for the few weeks before the 4th and I presume a few weeks before New Years.

 

[Henry]

What always boggles my mind is seeing all these fireworks stands in metal sheds in the middle of July. What is the flashpoint of black powder, again?

 

[Myconid Sage]

They are illegal in Minnesota, which is a real bummer . Cause I like shootin' them off. So you if you want them you have to go to South Dakota, North Dakota or Wisconsin. Plus everybody is lighting them off anyway. So why not make them legal for the week of the fourth? I guess we have to many hand-wringers in this state. "Gee people will get hurt with themselves with those things, ya know." "Oh yeah, the sure are dangerous, you betch ya." Just another case of the government trying to save you from yourself. There is a reason why its called Minnesovieta

I should move south of the Mason-Dixon, even though I'm a Yankee.