Posted on 06/19/2006 8:10:58 AM PDT by dead
YES! I love the fourth. Your a lucky man to be able to view people celibrating freedom with such fervor.
Pennsylvania law was changed two years ago allowing stores to sell fireworks otherwise illegal in the Commonwealth to out of state residents ONLY. Living in a border County, we have two of these operations. One checks ID at the door; if you have a PA driver's license you don't get in. The other checks ID at the counter. The boring fireworks can be sold to anyone; anything that flies up can be sold only to out of staters who also have to sign a form that they will immediately transport our of PA.
Just another trashing of American's rights that is not practiced against illegals!
Asset Forfeiture is being used by L.E. for all sorts of "enforcement" that it was never intended for.
But I have never heard of a single case of it being used to enforce our immigration laws.
Virtually everything an illegal has in the U.S. is stolen, either directly or bought with funds earned via illegal employment.
Is there ANY American fireworks manufacturer anymore? All this stuff seems to be made in China today, and not always with much precautions.
With special ATF license (not DOT, my mistake) needed to purchase.
with your typical consumer reloadable shells
SD
I had the same thing here in my old neighborhood here in FL.
It was a poor neighborhood, and I can tell you in FL the poor man's entertainment is holiday decorations. To sit in your driveway on the 4th was incredible. People saved up all year to shoot off professional mortars, I guess. They were coming from all sides, fountains and rockets and everything.
I sat there with my hose and a lady from MA, and we had a terrific time. She was in awe. It was wonderful. I hate the firework Nazis.
Christmas is the same way, they actually put poles over the street and spread Christmas lights overhead so you travel down the street through tunnels of lights. They cover every inch of the houses and lawns with lights inches apart.
My new neighborhood is nicer, but much more staid.
"I don't know where he got them from, but anything of that size is not supposed to be sold without a DOT professional license. I can understand being wary of that going off in your neighborhood.
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I don't know, and didn't ask. I suppose there's a black market for this stuff, like there is for just about everything. Wherever they came from, he wasn't the only one. I like fireworks, and my Dad, who is a fireman, used to put on the show in my little home town, down at the football field. So I got familiar with pro fireworks back in the 50s and early 60s.
I can recognize stuff pretty well when it fires, just from the whump! it makes. Lots of big items going off around here.
The 4th is coming up fast, and the preliminary fireworks have already begun going off every night. Some of my neighbors are probably going to have to make another run across the border, from the sound of the past couple of evenings.
But now it's like the yacht that capsized in shark infested waters and all men aboard were devoured except for the one who was a lawyer. When the sharks were later interviewed as to why, they replied: "Professional courtesy."
(sarcasm)Boy. We didn't see that one coming...(/sarcasm)
Of course, we were told not to worry about it. "It's only so drug dealers don't hide their cash in property..."
Yeah right. Pull my other leg.
The Phantom people run a sparkler plant near Youngstown. The Zambelli's in PA make their own fireworks, but that's for their pro shows, not for consumers. I don't think any consumer stuff is made here. Too many lawyers.
All this stuff seems to be made in China today, and not always with much precautions.
There's some cheap crap, but the brand name people prefer their customers remain unmaimed so there is considerable testing to CPSC standards.
SD
Well, I really wouldn't appreciate HAVING to be there with a hose, rather than, say, out of town visiting family.
They are legal to buy, but they are illegal to use in Wisconsin unless you are licensed. This may have changed, but I don't believe so. In my township, I don't think you can even be licensed. It's a "catch" 22.
I love Kansas.
We shoot those huge artillery shells off during the 4th of July.
It truly is a sight you have to see sometime. My town is one of the few our size that stil allows fireworks without virtually any restrictions, and the night sky on July 4 is something I will never forget from my childhood. It was incredible and beautiful beyond belief.
It still is, though this may be the last summer I will get to see it since I am graduating college in the fall.
Precautions, I mean to those who assemble the stuff. China is not exactly a paragon of transparency into factories.
If you want them, go to Missouri. Anything is legal there. It is heaven, and you don't have to prove you aren't from out of state.
We used to, as kids, just tape our M 80's to rocks and throw them at each other. Arrows are cooler.
Here in Texas, fireworks is a year-round business with no restrictions.
Safe and sane = pussy ass fireworks.
Thank God I don't live in California.
If we could just tie the fireworks to.........
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