Sounds like how the locals around Biloxi went with fireworks a few years back. There are fireworks stands all over theplace and city officials decided to control a perceived problem. It remained legal for the stands to sell them and for people to venture onto the property where the stands resided in order to purchase them, but it was illegal to possess them once you left the parking lot. Tell me there weren't some Dims involved in that one. It only lasted a season and many folks dared the city to try to enforce such stupidity.
Cancel the trip to Italy. In fact cancel any trip to the crazy EU.