Posted on 07/04/2015 8:04:49 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper
Where do many of you get your fireworks to celebrate July 4th? Up here in Canada, you can buy a decent assortment of fountains, Roman Candles, sparklers, etc (however sky rockets, firecrackers, and aerial launchers are prohibited) for Dominion Day (July 1) and Victoria Day (third weekend of May). Do you use chain stores like Phantom or Olde Glory? (I find their websites fun and intriguing). Or are temporary stands just as good or even cheaper than the chain outlets?
I can remember visiting Nashville back about twenty years ago and north of there (in Goodlettsville) were a block of year round stores with all sorts of goodies and I was told that that was because those stores were in a county that was of one of only three in the United States that permitted year round sales to the public.
I didn’t buy any fireworks, but I’m thinking of pulling out that bag of 100 .223 blanks and putting my BFA on the Colt SP1 and firing them off.
The aerial launchers are big here.....and REAL loud....beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
The irony of Americans who have become enslaved to the federal government in Washington buying Chinese fireworks to celebrate “freedom” can hardly be fathomed.
I go to Baldwin, Wisconsin “Fireworks City” and use all their yearly coupons.
It’s like “Spatula City” for fireworks.
They are legal in Carroll County, Maryland (for now). We can get them at the grocery store.
Well just maybe we are proclaiming freedom, though we don’t have it, but that which our country was founded upon!
The only reason we have fireworks is that we
aren’t allowed to have our own Cannon.
Auburn does however have a very impressive community fireworks display that draws tens of thousands from around the area.
There’s a big fireworks store about a mile from my house.
Totally agreed. Certainly you should be very mindful of tinder dry conditions and fireworks and I definitely know about that situation in your locale and it seems in most of California this year.
I made some quarter stick “smoke bombs” if you know what I mean...
Illegal to possess where I live but the Res about an hour away has anything you could ever want.
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Olive Branch, Mississippi, although it is illegal to discharge them within the city limits.
During and after the Revolutionary War and for many years you COULD have your own cannon,or armed ship.
I think it was post WW2 that private entities were forbidden cannons or arms on ships.In the U.S. the 1934 Firearms act probably ended cannons -although some pretty impressive stuff can still be owned if you are rich and can afford all the fees and operating costs.
Americans lost MANY freedoms under the socialist FDR ,and they venerated him!the current obamanation seems a reprisal.
New Hampshire has pretty good fireworks.
MA residents have to either go early, or loop around the roads a bit after buying, so they aren’t followed and preyed upon by police for importing illegal fireworks.
There is a requirement to perjure yourself in order to purchase in some places,i.e. you must affirm in writing that you are taking the fireworks out of that state.That was,until just a month ago, part of the laws governing fireworks sales in Indiana.A stupid law,no doubt,and FINALLY changed.But it is why many fireworks vendors were(are) located near the state borders.Can or should a Christian lie for such a purpose?I never felt it was worth it. Not that fireworks aren’t entertaining.
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