Does anyone live in a town or city where it is legal to shoot fireworks?
Mustang, OK is a small independent town (2mi wide and 6mi long) that is totally surrounded by Okla City limits. It is still legal to shoot fireworks in Mustang, but no where else in OKC. So far, we're lucky. Mustang also has a HUGE air cond building where fireworks are sold.
Anyone else this lucky?

Nope, shooting fireworks off here will have the police visiting real quick.

Fireworks are OK, but you can't have the ones that fly into the air and exploded!!! Those are illegal!! So in other words, fireworks in Florida SUCK!!!!!

Sacramento - fireworks are legal, unless they fly or explode.
(So why do they call them fireworks then...?)

All of the youth sports groups sell them in temporary stands as fund raisers - There's a stand pretty much on every corner!

yupper
Air conditioned stor about 10 minutes away. They staff it with high school cheerleaders too. ;)

BANG-ZOOM.... to the moon!

In Shelby county it's legal to buy and possess, but not to sell or use. Huh?? That's too bad, I kind of liked watching the morons in my neighborhood blow their own feet and hands off.

Can I? No
Do I? Hell yea! :D

No mortars, no firecrackers, no bottle rockets, nothing fun....
sparklers and small cones and those little snake things that stinkk and make your concrete permanently black.

Although many buy illeagals and fire them off anyway

They are still legal around here, but not for long. A friend who is a fireman says the long weekends are one of their busiest times. Couple of years ago some TV station caught these idiots having a war with each other, launching them at each other. And earlier this spring some kids went to steal someones fireworks that they had for sale in a cube van, and when she caught them, they lit the truck on fire. Needless to say there was nothing left of the truck, and she and her young child sleeping in the front escaped unhurt. I'm not sure if what she was doing was 100% legal either, but the publicity didn't help the cause. Daren

We can out in the County.

He, he!!

Pop-bottle rocket and roman candle/garbage can lid wars!!

pdq67

The ground effect fireworks are legal in Oregon, but the ones that fly or explode are illegal. Some people go up to Vancouver Wa. and buy 24 packs of Mortars for say about $40, maybe a pack of 4 Roman candles for about $5, and multi rocket 300 shell packs for $20. They usually spend about $100, but I have never seen anyone doing this and setting them off during a neighborhood BBQ/block party;)

Fireworks are legal all over South Carolina. There are huge fireworks stores everywhere especially near the state lines. There are small portable stands on about every street corner this time of the year.
James

Only "SAFE AND SANE" fireworks are legal in Vegas. But we have a nice Indian Reservation near by that sells just about everything. I understand that most governement officials do not want any type of firework that flys in the air, but if people want to blow their fingers off, why not allow them!!!!!!!!

Aerials are illegal here. Doesn't stop them from being sold/used though. It just gets expensive. July 4th isn't a huge fireworks problem around here, though. New Year's eve, now that's a different story. Kinda opposite from a lot of you guys, I guess.

Just small town Kansas here, and Everything in legal but bottle Rockets (WTF) is with that? Oh well kind of starting to out grow them anyways.

As of July 1 in Indiana most fireworks are legal with a few restrictions, such as you must be 18, set them off on your own property, and only between 9am and 11pm, or til midnite on certain holidays incl July 4. Fireworks stores everywhere. I'm sure ER traffic will pick up quite a bit.

Aerials are illegal in CT,but at least you can buy cones/shower of sparks.
But,that doesn't stop me from going to New Hampshire for the big aerial displays stuff to shoot off at home :D

Fireworks are legal all over South Carolina. There are huge fireworks stores everywhere especially near the state lines. There are small portable stands on about every street corner this time of the year.
James

James is 110% kerect! in an hour or so it is going to sound like 'shock and awe' in my subdivision. i will be picking up little missiles all over my yard and driveway tomorrow. the county sheriff lives right across the street from me and he will be out there picking them up to. i know its legal to fire them off here, still not sure if its mandatory though. i guess ill find out tomorrow if i get a citation for failing to participate in a designated pyrotechnic state event.

Chris the fireworks you could buy in NH used to be way better . Before I moved up here you could get some good stuff.Its kinda funny you can buy fireworks here. They are illegal to light of in most towns tho

None of the cool ones are legal here... the whole state of MN just recently made the snakes & sparklers legal as even those were illegal a couple years ago.

I believe anything goes in Wisconsin, which is where all the good ones around here come from :)

The police say they're cracking down on them every year, but the cops on the streets seem a little more lenient than the guys on the TV commercials and on the news. I know of many cases of confiscated explodables, but never heard of anyone local getting in any sort of legal trouble... sometimes I wish I was a cop, as I wouldn't have to pay for my fireworks. :D

Legally around here no, but we do it anyway.

well i was right, it sounds like d-day outside right now. unbelievable. there are nonstop explosions and some are real window rattlers. i hope no 0ne gets injured this year. year before last a guy in the sub next to ours killed himself by accident with a homemade pipe bomb.

Flying or exploding ones are illegal in Michigan, but since it's impossible to enforce, they're all over the place anyway.

Here you're not suppose to shoot off anything that leaves the ground.....such as artillery shells, bottle rockets and I think even roman candles....you can't even buy them here.....but that doesn't stop us from bootlegging in in and having our little shendig. Of course we go out to the country and do it.

Other than that you can buy/use sparklers and other small ground effects.

And yes SC is legal for alot of stuff not considered legal elsewhere....I've heard it's due to being a tourist state. South Of The Border is probably one of the biggest fireworks places.

We can shoot them off here in Republic,Mo. even the larger aerial displays. I don't imagine they will be legal for long. Many of the surrounding cities have already banned them.

Up until a few years ago, all fireworks were illegal in Mn. But thanks to the one the entire country gave us a hard time for. Jesse Ventura got a bill passed allowing fireworks to a certain point. No body is complaining, we can buy all sorts of the good fireworks just not the extreme stuff that some states like South Dakota has. No laws against traditional firecrackers (like black cats) or the type that explode in the air.

Watched the Pearl Harbor display from the back of my truck with the kids. We had a good time with the small stuff, jumping jacks, lady fingers, etc. I even pulled out a few precious bottle rockets from my stash and sent them up. ;)

An eight year old girl died here yesterday in a house fire started by her neighbor's fireworks. :(

Smokey Bear says, "No fireworks in your National Forests." :D

Oregon is another lame state.

it is illegal to use fireworks in my town, heck it's illegal in 99% of this state. i wouldn't have a problem with "safe and sane" fireworks, but the people in my area, definately have more $ than brains, several homes in my area over the years have been burned to the ground, because the people in my area don't just get bottle rockets, somehow they get the professional stuff, it sounds like my neighborhood is getting carpet bombed every year, i'm not exagerating a bit, they literally shake my home, standing in my front yard, rivals most of the countries professional exhibits. i like to watch fireworks, but it has really got out of hand, and i don't know how what it's going to take, we've had burned houses, we've had deaths, but people continue to bring these huge motars home......

it is illegal to use fireworks in my town, heck it's illegal in 99% of this state.

The safe and sane are legal here. Since the sales fund the youth group organizations, banning them is going to have to be forced on us. Most sales are to people who live in banned areas and the profits to the youth groups are huge.
Mix the legal ones with the illegal fireworks and it was a war zone out there. I don't mind it but I wish they tone it back at midnight. Think I got 2.5 hours of sleep last night.

I in the city I live in, it's legal to have/buy the "safe and sane" fireworks, but go about 2 miles south, and it's illegal. My girl and I decided to go watch a fireworks show this year at a park. The show was great, but the real show was on the way home.

We were on the S405 and there was a bigger and better fireworks show on the freeway. I think next year, I'll just pull over on the freeway, and look at any given direction, have a better show than at the "fireworks show".

"Safe and Sane" fireworks are legal in the Fresno, CA area where I live. Some of the neighbors in my new neighborhood had the illegal ones :) . Anything is better than no fireworks.

Not legal here but it dosent stop people from getting them at the thousands of tents set up at every corner all over Florida? Years ago use to get the real m-80 and silver salutes now every thing has to be 21 grams or less. So I started making my own like the original 52 grams and bigger:D.
Just ask Luckboy, BBMike, Jason at cbo6, lol

I guess I am one of the lucky ones that live in South Carolina. I went to Myrtle Beach for the 4th, and man was it a party. Not only were a lot of people shooting fireworks on the beach, a lot more people were just watching them, either from the beach, pool, balcony, you name it somebody was probably there. Oh yea, after about 9:30 or 10, I don't think I saw a sober person, much less a sober one shooting fireworks (like I said it was a real party, especially where we were staying).

Even the simplest fireworks are illegal here. Mostly, though, it depends on how fast you are and how much the town police chief likes you. For the last 25 years the farm I worked at would finish with a 1/4 or half stick, everyone would get inside the farm building and watch the single pane windows shiver...

Police would patrol the neighborhood within 15 minutes. Personally, they shoot off so many professional displays, why bother dealing with a possible legal issue? I suppose its like being at a concert and watching the DVD.. whatever..

matt

"I see the snakes and sparklers, but where's the good stuff."
PA is a mess. You can buy them here, but you have to be from another state to buy them legally. PA residents can't buy them. Forget about using them. PA law says it's OK to sell them here in PA to NJ folks though, but they are illegal in NJ too. Who comes up with this crap? This state's laws are made by idiots. I like it down south. You can stop for gas, a case of beer and a load of fireworks at the same gas station.

there was so much attention brought to that PA loophole, that I decided to take a ride and capitalize on it before NJ puts a stop to it...lets just say it was worth the ride!! Its amazing what a few hundred bucks will get!

too bad our m80 (and larger) supply has seemed to dry up...those are the best!!