I live in Missouri, where all fireworks are legal. There are even stores, open all year around, which sell nothing but fireworks.
Right before the Fourth of July, tents are put up near the borders, so people from other states are buy stuff. In Illinois, for example, only sparklers are legal, so people come across the Mississippi River bridges and buy fireworks to their heart's content.
I recently bought some bottle rockets and Black Cat firecrackers.
When I was a kid in Illinois, the older boys would buy fireworks in Missour, mark the price up, and sell them to us 10-year-olds.
Ten years old and buying illegal fireworks from 17-year-old smugglers. There's humor in that somewhere.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who should have gotten some M-80s, too.
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