Delaware
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
Rhode Island

= UnAmerican Bastards

wow theres a myth around in Virginia that nearly all of them are illegal. weird. good information to know.

A lot of times the fireworks are restricted by counties too. I know in California San Francisco County bars fireworks but Sutter county doesn't.

Shouldn't we be free to blow off our hands? I mean, isn't that why God gave us two?

Once again, New York proves to be totally lame. All taxes and no play makes Johnny a dull boy.

The C-Suckers in NJ sure know how to spoil the fun. I bet that Corzine would approve them if he could charge an excise tax.

I don't care about simply whether they're legal. I just want know which states have tractor trailers full of fireworks for sale all year round. And giant concrete buildings along the interstates that do the same. Alabama: Crazy Bill FTW.

Celebrate the independance of your country by blowing up a small portion of it.

The PA law is a bit more restrictive than they make it sound. Sparklers and those little pop guns are allowed, but that's about it. Of course, they have to enforce said laws for them to matter, which on the 4th they usually don't bother with where I live. You also can't legally buy good fireworks in PA, unless you have an out of state drivers license, then it seems to be a don't ask don't tell policy.

So only Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and
Rhode Island don't care about having their citizens maimed?

@TheBigLewinski: I'm waiting for Corzine to blow himself up, or have a Trooper do it, then give the hospital tax payer money to thank them for treating him, and the original crime get forgotten about.

Like it really matters. The only time I've heard of people getting arresting in my state for possessing fireworks is when they blew something up like an idiot.

Celebrate the birth of your country by blowing up a small part of it.

Idiots do sure like blowing things up. I don't know why there're laws to stop idiots from blowing themselves, up.

@Ash78: Yay! Alabama. I love Crazy Bill's. I wonder, though, why our state has all of those HUGE Fireworks places at each border when our surrounding states can also have fireworks. I had always just assumed it was so folks in GA, TN, MS, FL could get fireworks here and take them back to their states. Maybe we have less restrictive laws?

That's not correct about Pennsylvania. While out of state residents can buy whatever they want, PA residents cannot buy fireworks in state. Really. I'm not making that up, this state really is that stupid.

I swear I'm not making that up. I know it sounds stupid, because it is, but it's true. REALLY!

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Crap, I move all the way from New York to another state where I can't legally blow myself up. This is not what our founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the Declaration of Independence.

The War Against Sparklers continues!

[www.syracuse.com]

@ConsequencesIX: Meh, I don't care about idiots blowing themselves up, but I'm concerned about them burning down the neighborhood.

@harvey_birdman_attorney_at_law: I think a lot of states are like that. I know Indiana is.

follow up - from the morons at the state police themselves -

[www.psp.state.pa.us]

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: Wasn't it Apu? Eh... damn Family Guy and Peter blowing up his hand to ruin my memory of that Simpsons reference.

@harvey_birdman_attorney_at_law:
Too true. It's the only thing more fucked up than our liquor laws.

Even though I loved fireworks and would play for hours on end when I was little. Today I really think we need to think twice and do as little damage as we can to the environment. Even if it means print one sheet of paper less per day. And no I'm not a leftist pacifist or whatever! lol

It is kinda odd that the states that ban certain fireworks, are allowed to sell them. I'm from Wisconsin and I always go to Illinois to buy fireworks I can't get in Wisconsin.

@nutrigm: Yeah, because god forbid you were one of those, right?

::Eyesroll::

The funny thing about Utah is that fireworks are only legal for sale during certain days of the year. If I remember right, it's something like the three days before and after Fourth of July, New Year's, Chinese New Year's, and Pioneer Day, which is a state holiday.

I should have stocked up more before we moved back to Arizona. We've only got illegal sparklers.

@Farquar: It's not nice to call liberals un-american. Not to their face at least. My swing state allows fireworks. My liberal city does not.

If anyone's shooting stuff off at home, they might also want to be aware of their neighbors. Not the unpatriotic bastards, but soldiers who've just come back from Iraq or Afghanistan. I grew up/lived in an area populated with a few soldiers, and we were asked to keep it down because they were extremely uncomfortable with the noise - flashbacks, etc.

Dont be fooled in CT the only things allowed are sparklers and fountains that go no higher than 5' in the air.

The Roman candels, bottle rockets, mortars and all that stuff that goes 50' in the air that I have in my guest bedroom is TOTALLY illigal.

When I was little, my friends and I would shoot roman candels at eachother, such stupidity, ahhh youth.

I went to buy beer at a liquor store in PA once... ha ha.

@crabbyman6: They're lighting them off already out here in the boonies of PA.

Why bother when you can make them yourself! Better bang for the buck!

One of the nation's largest fireworks retailers has the vast majority of their stores in Ohio, so you tell me where they're illegal and where they're not/condoned.

@fall_farewell: It completely depends on what county you're in when it comes to VA. A good rule of thumb is: the more south you are, the laxer the laws.

Backing up the Pennsylvania commenters, I live about 10 minutes from PA, in NY. I can drive to PA, and buy great fireworks with my NY license, but Pennsylvanians can't without special permits. Even funnier is though fireworks are illegal in NY, the PA shops advertise heavily in NY.

@fall_farewell: Virginia legislation may say they're legal, but then you also have county ordinances to worry about. I live in a county where all fireworks are illegal.

@Wormfather is Wormfather: Still better than our New England neighbors who cant even buy sparklers.

@mdoublej: Yeah, you see ads around all the borders for PA stores selling fireworks. My brother in-law used to drive in from NJ to buy us fireworks every 4th. We asked the clerk why he could buy them and we couldn't, they told us that "we know the law in this state, its not up to us to enforce the law in your state" as we hand them the money from our PA license containing wallets.

@anibundel: Hmmm, I guess it would have helped if I had read all the way down the page before I responded to fall_farewell too...

THIS IS VERY MISLEADING! just because your state is on the 'allowed' list does not mean that ALL fireworks are legal.

others have given examples, and i will include NC to this --

Specifically Permitted Sparklers, fountains, smoke devices, snake and glow worms, trick noisemakers, and toy pistol caps.
Specifically Prohibited Explosive or aerial fireworks, roman candles, and rockets or similar devices.

google found me a much better resource here -- [www.fireworks.com]

The only place I have seen with more lax fireworks laws than South Dakota is Missouri. Stuff will be going boom around town for the rest of the week.

@Applekid: No. It was a parody of Apu (who is himself a parody. How meta!). The Simpsons were off at the Flanders' beach house, and Homer went to the local Kwik-E-Mart knockoff to buy the fireworks (and other unmentionables). It was, of course, staffed with a gentleman very similar to Apu. :)

@crabbyman6: However, since we lived less than an hour away from the Ohio border, there was no shortage of good fireworks every Fourth. My friend's dad would load the trunk full of fireworks at an Ohio store and we'd re-enact D-Day in his backyard...

@Bladefist: I dont know what to call a liberal, they typically call themselves moderates. Liberals who call themselves liberals are usually communists.

I can't buy fireworks in New York State but I can have unlimited quantities of black powder shipped to my doorstep with no problems.

Iowa - Supporting > 50% of Missouri's income by the sale of fireworks to your northern neighbor.

You're welcome by the way, enjoy that double-wide.

@Black Bellamy:

And model rockets are OK too, which as my neighbors found out when I was a teenager, can be just as dangerous as fireworks.

@Farquar: If only the United States Constitution had explicitly guaranteed the right to keep and bear novelty explosives in addition to small arms...