displayfireworks1
03-04-2014, 10:26 AM
The more I look into these new state or local laws that allow consumer fireworks they seem to follow a typical path. Usually they start with permitting citizens to purchase and shoot fireworks on the major fireworks holidays of July 4th and Jan 1st .
They assume people will behave normally and stop shooting fireworks at a reasonable hour. Then the few clowns out there shoot fireworks at 3AM and aggravate the neighbors. The police then go back to the local governing body and ask for the second part of the law that is the time frames that shooting fireworks are permitted.
I would be curious if organizations like the American Pyrotechnic Association or National Fireworks Association have language they can give to the local governing body and suggest they use it and avoid all this secondary time frame permitting issue. A second recommendation would be at the state level, to have language that forbids local government from exempting themselves from the state law. I believe Michigan has this.
Let’s face it, it is wrong to shoot fireworks at 3AM when people are sleeping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVbug_rze_o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3UufI1-kjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVw865LHCCI
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APA and NFA are you seeing this? Help these people along and draft something you can give them so they get it right the first time . When all the complaints about citizens shooting fireworks at 3AM come in it makes the people that pushed for the legislation look bad, with those that passed it regret being part of it.
They assume people will behave normally and stop shooting fireworks at a reasonable hour. Then the few clowns out there shoot fireworks at 3AM and aggravate the neighbors. The police then go back to the local governing body and ask for the second part of the law that is the time frames that shooting fireworks are permitted.
I would be curious if organizations like the American Pyrotechnic Association or National Fireworks Association have language they can give to the local governing body and suggest they use it and avoid all this secondary time frame permitting issue. A second recommendation would be at the state level, to have language that forbids local government from exempting themselves from the state law. I believe Michigan has this.
Let’s face it, it is wrong to shoot fireworks at 3AM when people are sleeping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVbug_rze_o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3UufI1-kjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVw865LHCCI
.
APA and NFA are you seeing this? Help these people along and draft something you can give them so they get it right the first time . When all the complaints about citizens shooting fireworks at 3AM come in it makes the people that pushed for the legislation look bad, with those that passed it regret being part of it.