Fireworks illegal in NC? WTF?

No fireworks lighting by me. As a kid I sent a bottle rocket up in a vacant dirt pile lot. Didn’t burn out and landed on the only house even close. Pine needles on the house caught on fire. I knocked on the door and asked the lady if I could borrow her water house to put out a fire on her roof. Put out the fire and got cussed out. It was a good ending.
 
When I was a kid (60 years ago, +/-) my uncle used to drive to SC to buy produce which he then sold door to door, or at the local "trade lot". He occasionally brought back something for us.
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We called those finger removal devices.
 
As long as i can remember......... Anything that launches into the air other than small stuff such as bottle rockets are illegal without the pyro license?
 
Cherry Bombs, M-80s, Silver Bombs. Those were the ones to get back in the 1960's. They were the real deal. A classmate's dad drove a truck and he'd let us know when he was going to South Carolina. We'd save up lunch money and have him bring us back some. The regular old Black Cat firecrackers back then were like today's Cherry Bombs.
 
FYI, if you hit up Frugal Mcdugal right near Area 51 and Carowinds, you can occasionally get some hard to find liquor as well.
Except he’s running down 95 from Cary. :p
 
The M80's with the fuse going in the side were the real deal. They would tear some stuff up.
Man I stole one of those from my uncle when I was a kid. I sneeked off down behind the barn to light it. Got my nerve up and stuck a match to that thing and gave er a hella fling. Well at precisely that moment my big ass ole tom turkey came around the other side of the barn and seen the sparkly fuse and thought it was some tasty treat I had thrown. It instantly became a footrace towards the M-80!! Let me tell you something, a big ole tom turkey can run really fast when he thinks you are going to take his tasty snack. Well lets just say he won the race :(.
 
The M80's with the fuse going in the side were the real deal. They would tear some stuff up.

LOL, very true, and the fuse burned under water. Just ask the maintenance staff that worked at my high school.:eek:

I just wish folks wouldn't start in early to mid June like they seem to around here doing test runs I guess. I've just spent the time since sundown trying to comfort a dog that is losing her mind. Unless it's actually July 4th, I let her out and bark at them. If anyone wants to bitch about it, I'll tell them and any cop that wants to show up to tell the jackass pyros to cut it the eff out. I know where it's generally coming from.
 
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Sounds like a war zone here in downtown. City is not doing anything I know of. Illegal or not it’s constant for hours.
 
Interesting video, the British perspective of the Declaration of Independence.

 

Grand finale from the show a neighbor generously put on (to the surprise of many since he was legally threatened last year). Thankfully we were able to watch this show from our front yard!



We watched Mt rushmore from our subdivision last night, and have front row seats to thousands of dollars being fired off by all the neighborhood.
 
My personal stash is depleted. I feel so naked. Sheriff's we're canvassing my street but quick match (280/ft/s) makes me hard to catch! It's over before the call comes in. The cOOnt next door was losing her mind.... So I set off more. 'murica!! And Jack Daniel's.
 
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Out here in Zebulon they must not have heard fireworks are illegal... Sounded like Mogadishu for a solid hour after sunset.... Haven't heard fireworks on that level before.



We watched Mt rushmore from our subdivision last night, and have front row seats to thousands of dollars being fired off by all the neighborhood.

I was at Mt Rushmore for the 4th a couple years ago. It was impressive...
 
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Sounded like small skimishes all around here well into the night. Too hilly to see much. I enjoyed it, but did not participate. The most fun I ever had with fireworks was when my brothers and I used to use those kid-Dan'l-Boone corkball/cap muskets to shoot bottle-rockets at each other. We grew up still having two eyes each.
 
When I was young we though the M-80s were all that, but my cousins on the farm kinda chuckled as they buried a 12” culvert 4’ deep pointing to the sky and started setting off dynamite in it. Kinda wish we knew more about hearing protection in those days,
 
I heard nonstop fireworks from about 8:30 until 11 last night, and then it was sporadic until about midnight. There were a few mag dumps from ARs that I heard sporadically as well.
 
Couple of our neighbors had made a run for the border & put on a pretty good show. Several more parties & lots more fireworks than I've seen the 12 years we've lived here.

same. Lots of activity in my neighborhood and direct neighbors had good assortment.
 
The icw and sound behind Topsail had the best I’ve ever seen in over thirty years that I can remember. It sounded like the artillery from Lejeune for two hours at least. It might be wishful thinking but I’d like to think it was a solid retort to everything going on in the world right now.
 
The icw and sound behind Topsail had the best I’ve ever seen in over thirty years that I can remember. It sounded like the artillery from Lejeune for two hours at least. It might be wishful thinking but I’d like to think it was a solid retort to everything going on in the world right now.


Edit: NC lost out on a lot of money that went to SC. Might need to change our laws.
 
I've never heard so many fireworks on the 4th as yesterday. Also a lot of gun fire from the normal directions and a cannon or two. Folks around here decided to take it upon themselves to celebrity since the big one's were canceled. Makes me smile.
 
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The M-80’s from years past fused to a lit cigarette would have us thrown under the jailhouse for some of the terrorist acts we performed on unsuspecting citizens. We would hit the lover’s lanes, police parked timing speeders, police directing traffic and others that are better not mentioned. One crowd, not us, got busted by the postal inspectors for blowing up mailboxes, not a good year or two for them. It you ever had one of those bombs go off in a car it didn’t take long to figure out cigarettes on the fuse was much safer and more fun having the advantage of remote observation.

Oh, and that is why NC does not allow us to own firecrackers.
 
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The M-80’s from years past fused to a lit cigarette would have us thrown under the jailhouse for some of the terrorist acts we performed on unsuspecting citizens. We would hit the lover’s lanes, police parked timing speeders, police directing traffic and others that are better not mentioned. One crowd, not us, got busted by the postal inspectors for blowing up mailboxes, not a good year or two for them. It you ever had one of those bombs go off in a car it didn’t take long to figure out cigarettes on the fuse was much safer and more fun having the advantage of remote observation.

Oh, and that is why NC does not allow us to own firecrackers.
long time ago we used the lit cigarette fuse on some sort of explosive my friend had, It was a grey/white powder in a film container that we were going to blow up a old consule tv, We were all set a aways back when a couple and thier parents came down the dirt road to test drive their new SUV we had to stop them quick and they had a puzzled look ,when all hell broke loose with a huge explosion. I'm sure they never came down that road again.
 
Do a video for us if you can.
Lit it off once & I wasn’t able to record in time.
1.5” barrel 13.5” long, 1/3-1/2 cup powder, industrial ppr towel wadding (to keep the powder dry), spud cut to diameter to build up pressure.
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Enough thump to bend the base the first time it was shot.
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The issue with fireworks is the fire hazard. Most every gun owner I've met has enough sense to not shoot up into the air, or in random directions just for fun. They know they're responsible for every bullet that leaves their gun.

People that buy fireworks? Not so much. Most frankly don't think ahead or don't care if their fun starts a forest fire or burns their neighbors house down, cuz 'murrica! (and plenty folks burn themselves in the process) They just want to get drunk and shoot burning projectiles God knows where. And when they do start a fire, they play dumb about it. "Well gosh, Mr. fire department man, I didn't know a roman candle could burn grammaw's house down..."

I don't agree with the law, but we wouldn't need the law if people didn't do stupid stuff.
 
my bro-in-law shot off a little mortar show on Saturday night, then promptly chased beer with bourbon and went out early. We ended up playing night basketball and got schooled by a girl. Badly. Seems she had 3 brothers, was the only girl, and played all-star ball all thru school. She was juking us BAREFOOT...and that was after several stiff bourbon drinks. She brought her own bottle of Larceny. I was thoroughly impressed!
 
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I just want some dang good ol bottle rockets, we stopped at a place in SC and the huge fireworks stands had zero, plenty of other stuff that went boom.

The guy running the place said they banned regular bottle rockets because so many people got hurt with them over the years.
 
I won't be the wet blanket but considering it sounded like a warzone Friday, Saturday, & SUNDAY... even after midnight was a pain in the butt. We have horses that absolutely lose their mind with fireworks. Most folks with outside pets understand my rage/anger.
 
Back in the good ol' days the fireworks of choice for all holidays was a quarter stick of dynamite. The whole house would shake on New Year's Eve. Up this way you can do abut anything you want as far a noise makers go.
We used to fish with 1/4 sticks.
 
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