[skugelstadt]

With all the sky rockets around Vegas/Henderson I assumed they were legal. I discovered this is not so. I am shocked at the blatant disregard for the law throughout the city. In California, at least the areas I am familiar with, police are on patrol big time and will arrest you immediately. I guess there is no "zero tolerance" here.

[tadtam]

Yes, that's correct.

ISN'T IT GREAT !!!!!!!!!

[Exaday]

As soon as some property gets damaged they'll put a stop to that. Just a matter of time until tragedy strikes.

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by Exaday

As soon as some property gets damaged they'll put a stop to that. Just a matter of time until tragedy strikes.

Tragedy strikes every year -- people blow their fingers off, and even kill themselves. Prohibition isn't going to make them any smarter. Besides, have you noticed all the little makeshift fireworks booths that pop up every July and December? A LOT of money is being made on fireworks. So palms get greased and Southern Nevada keeps chugging along.

[Raiderman]

I saw on the news that all of the fireworks stands are to benefit charities. Any truth to that?

[MSchu]

why buy FW's... all I had to do was step outside and I was treated to sky based FW's in all for directions within a couple blocks at the furthest.
but then again, I had to pick up pieces of card board in the morning.

[Exaday]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

Tragedy strikes every year -- people blow their fingers off, and even kill themselves. Prohibition isn't going to make them any smarter. Besides, have you noticed all the little makeshift fireworks booths that pop up every July and December? A LOT of money is being made on fireworks. So palms get greased and Southern Nevada keeps chugging along.

I did not hear about that happening here, but I am talking more about an apartment complex going up up flames, perhaps a neighborhood, the sort of thing that would prompt a nationwide vigil, or at least a local one. Something that would really prompt action. They would stop it with strict enforcement. I'd say we're somewhat low risk.

From all the news I heard it seems we had a pretty safe 4th.

[lvoc]

Originally Posted by skugelstadt

With all the sky rockets around Vegas/Henderson I assumed they were legal. I discovered this is not so. I am shocked at the blatant disregard for the law throughout the city. In California, at least the areas I am familiar with, police are on patrol big time and will arrest you immediately. I guess there is no "zero tolerance" here.

Legality is a state of mind. Las Vegas does allow charity firework sales but all of the safe and sane variety. Nothing that goes into the air or explodes. So anything you see in the air or hear is illegal.

What you do see mostly comes from Pahrump where heavier duty fireworks are for sale. They are by the way illegal to shoot off in Nye County...but not illegal to sell.

During our many years in So. CA we always had a neighborhood fire works operation. Not actually an organized deal but a cooperative effort. We would park a couple of vehicles blocking off one dead end section and hold a "block party" there. In general the cops stayed away including a couple that lived on the block involved.

And from the looks of the sky there were many others.

[Vegas Bear]

I was in Boise, Idaho over the weekend and there were more illegal rockets and mortars flying around that town than any I have ever seen. Vegas was nothing compared to that.

This is a pretty common thing in the intermountain west.

[NLVgal]

With the number of people that shoot off illegal fireworks here, you'd need to call in the entire police force, the national guard, and the staff at Nellis to try to enforce the fireworks laws.

My neighborhood looks like Baghdad on "shock and awe night" on the fourth. Most of the people that use these things are smart enough to use them in the street and to have a bucket of water handy.

It's the idiots that shoot guns in the air that scare me.