After the SHTF tomorrow in Murietta, all we’ll be allowed by the Regime-From-Hell, will be 3” sparklers, and LadyFingers. Heh.
I shot serious displays off at the Family Farm every 4th - my neighbor had an ATF Black Powder License, and he got some serious loads - so we had hundreds in for BBQ/ Pit Beef/Ham/Turkey and oceans of specialty beers from Pittsburgh.
Plenty of Local LEOs, Feds, PaSP, US Military were friends and customers of mine and neighbors, and they helped us on several occasions, even though they were there with their families. Took a full day to get the Farm back to normal. All pitched-in. I miss those years.
When I lived in Indiana, WAY back when, fireworks were legal but the best I could buy of exploding displays were Black Cats, little bottle rockets, Roman Candles, ETC.
I had a connection to this blind guy who would sell us ¼ mile rockets. Never asked him how he got blind...but WOW doggie they were the real thing. We would blow them off over the 7 acre lake community we lived on and everyone loved them! Till my friend’s drunk cousin visiting from Spain lit one with a broken stick and shot it across the lake into my neighbor’s yard and started it on fire! I jumped into my 10ft Johnson boat and the drunk MFer and jumped in too and swamped the boat with my little electric motor! It took us 10 minutes to get across bailing water all the time and it went out when we got there. MEMORIES!