Are Americans allowed to buy fireworks?

[Electra]

Well they are supposed to be illegal in New York, but it always seemed to me that every July 4th sounded like World War II..especially those big banging things they throw in the trash cans...sound like cannons going off.

It's a bit better in Philly...didn't hear so many of them going off...but it seemed that people still had plenty.

I don't like fireworks myself. When I was a kid I accidentally dropped a sparkler in the family box of fireworks we were celebrating Guy Fawkes Day with...they went up like a bomb factory. Have always been a little scared of them since..or maybe I just associate it with the hiding I got from my Dad...hehehehe.