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Good Ol' Iowa Patriots and party-goers will be able to legally buy fireworks in Iowa tomorrow June 1st! — just in time to shoot them off during this year's Fourth of July festivities. Gov. Terry Branstad signed legislation last Tuesday officially legalizing the sale and use of commercial grade pyrotechnics in the state. “It’s very quiet, but it’s not going to be after this bill’s signed," Branstad joked at a public bill signing at the Capitol. It means that Iowans don’t have to go to Missouri or South Dakota or somewhere else to get their fireworks," he said. "I think it’s a very limited bill. It’s designed to try to protect safety of the people of Iowa. But I think it’s something that Iowans have looked forward to and enjoy celebrating." The new legislation gives city councils and county boards of supervisors the authority to ban or restrict the use of fireworks, though they're not allowed to limit their sale. As usual wherever Democrats, hand wringers, and advocates of the Nanny state thrive the "civic leaders" are out to protect those whom they deem as "too stupid" to be allowed fireworks have sprung into action. Some city leaders in the Des Moines metro have said they are considering implementing their own local ordinances banning fireworks' use. Iowa halted the sale of most retail fireworks about 80 years ago in the wake of two devastating fireworks-related blazes in northwest Iowa. In Spencer, nearly five blocks of the city's main business district were destroyed in a 1931 fire after a boy dropped a lit sparkler in a drugstore fireworks display. Twenty-five buildings were lost, and 50 more were damaged. In Remsen, a girl dropped a sparkler on a pile of gasoline-soaked rags in a garage on July 4, 1936, destroying 20 businesses and leaving 100 people homeless. The new law just saved us a trip to Missouri. We've snuck across the state line every year to purchase our 4th of July fireworks. This will provide local businesses with additional sales. There are also those "tent" sales opportunities for enterprising entrepreneurs. The states coffers are expecting a $17.4 million influx from the new revenue sources. |
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5/31/2017 5:55 pm |
Just watch... it will be those same Nanny staters who will be first in line with their social experiments they want funded with the tax money.
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5/31/2017 5:57 pm |
I'd discussed this topic with our legislators last year and they finally came through.
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5/31/2017 5:59 pm |
I'll be shopping around over the next few days.
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5/31/2017 6:37 pm |
What was failed to be mentioned with the Spencer fire is the city was plagued with LOW water pressure and the Brand NEW firetruck failed to function and burned up right out in the street from the drugstore where the fire started....
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Happy Fireworks Day!! Please be careful with them. I guarantee Rosie won't like them.
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5/31/2017 7:14 pm |
Happy Fireworks Day!! Please be careful with them. I guarantee Rosie won't like them.
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5/31/2017 7:34 pm |
Have to buy them in Cerro Gordo not Polk from what I hear. You know the lib's can make their own laws.
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5/31/2017 8:35 pm |
Have to buy them in Cerro Gordo not Polk from what I hear. You know the lib's can make their own laws.
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5/31/2017 8:37 pm |
You can't fix stupid... besides I am in favor of draining the murky end of the genepool anyways
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5/31/2017 10:27 pm |
I am glad you can by fireworks now
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6/1/2017 2:44 pm |
Dam next thing u no Ioway will be gettin some of dat elextricity and floorid in da drinkin wader
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6/1/2017 10:14 pm |
Don't you just love those Civic leaders who think you are too stupid to handle fireworks properly and safely?
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6/1/2017 10:15 pm |
watch it and I bet all the k9's will not like them.
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