Are Cherry Bombs and M80s in our future? State Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fort Walton Beach) wants to make fireworks — the booming ones we buy in Alabama and set off in our backyards — legal in Florida. He has filed a bill (HB 4005) that would remove existing state regulations on retail fireworks.
Gaetz sees it as an economic issue, according to the News Herald.
“We’re pushing economic activity out of our state with a regulation that’s relatively meaningless because people get fireworks elsewhere and just bring them down and shoot them off here,†Gaetz said. “We’d rather keep those dollars in Florida.â€
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