Believe it or not, as of this year you can actually do something about airport security headaches. If youâre willing to put up a small amount of cash, a pair of programs designed to speed you through the checkpoint are now availableâand they work.
Click on a state to get more information about selling periods and fines, if applicable. In Ohio, for example, you can buy fireworksâlegislators want to keep the business in state, after allâbut you can't set them off. And in Nebraska, fireworks can shoot up into the air, but they can't have an explosive charge.
So we've made another map showing exactly how illegal it is to possess fireworks in your state, using the severity of fines as the metric. In the green states, it's legal to have fireworks as a consumer; in the red ones it's not. The darker the red, the greater the penalty.