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PSA: Fireworks Are Now Legal In Georgia

"Georgia has the good stuff. We have the good stuff, now."

Kathryn Kostovetsky

Jun 28, 2015

University of Georgia

For the Fourth of July this year, you won't have to stick to sparklers from the grocery store.

Previously, only Class A fireworks (sparklers, firecrackers, etc) were permitted in the state for regular use, but effective July 1st, 2015, Class C fireworks will be legal in Georgia. Class C fireworks (aerial fireworks) include roman candles, bottle rockets, and that awesome stuff they use at Disney World.

However you're probably not going to buy as many as they do, with the new Georgian fireworks comes a 5% incident tax.

There are a few rules, but they aren't too crazy. The fireworks can be shot every day, but only between the hours of 10:00a.m. and midnight. However on New Years Eve, New Year's Day, and July 3rd and 4th, the curfew goes an extra two hours until 2a.m. They can be used almost anywhere, as long as you know what you're doing. As quoted by Aaron Gould Sheinin in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, "...the new law contains very few restrictions on where they can be used. The short versions: stay away from nuclear power plants and gas stations."

Also, you have to be 18 to purchase the fireworks.

Chesney Butler, owner of a new fireworks store, Freedom Fireworks, says that fireworks can be used for any special occasion now, "Weddings, birthdays, anything!"

No longer will you have to venture to Tennessee and South Carolina to get the "good" fireworks, now you can get them in the next town over. With stores coming to towns such as Atlanta, Warner Robins, Athens, Macon, and many more, it'll be easy to find a store near you to get your fireworks fix.

If you're looking for terms with more details, feel free to look at this glossary of pyrotechnic terms. It'll make you feel like a fireworks expert, and a total pyromaniac.

It all makes perfect sense, in Georgia we like to do it big. Big parties, big hair, big trucks, big everything, so it only makes sense that we'd have big fireworks to go along with it.

No pun intended, but my expectations for the 4th of July this year just skyrocketted.

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