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Originally posted by Dave Stones
(after all who hasnt dabbled with pencil lead and sulphur in chemistry class? 
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aluminium foil and caustic soda solution is more fun - and you don't have to be in school lab to get hold of the ingredients. Any chemists want to guess what you can do with it?
On a more serious note, a private member's bill passed this year giving the Government a lot more power to require licencing of larger fireworks displays, tighter licencing of those selling them and tighter controls over who can buy them outside of a fairly narrow period of time either side of November 5.
As is often the case in life, the vast majority of people are sensible and an outright ban would be a clumsy and unfair way of dealing with a problem caused by a small minority (most of whom are underage and shouldn't have them anyway - go figure!)