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Originally posted by MovedGoalPosts
May be the answer here is to restrict sales of fireworks to specialist licenced retailers, who can be vetted and approved for suitability of premises, knowledge of what the firework will actually do when it goes off (so you can get an idea of how your display might work), and of course have their licence withdrawn if they sell fireworks to the under age.
Get rid of the corner shop - they can't carry a decent range anyway. If you ever go to buy from a specialist retailer, you'll see what I mean by the choice of more bangs for your buck that they can offer!
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I think I agree with this. Making it harder for anyone to get hold of fireworks will allow families to get them if they want - presumably by driving to the kinds of places where these things would go on sale - while making it harder for little *******s to acquire them from their local unscrupulous newsagent. I'm sure there would still be cases of abuse but surely far less.
Currently newsagents and the like can sell fireworks for only a set period. If sale was restricted to specialists, then a different restriction would be required - perhaps a minimum purchase value. We used to get fireworks from a specialist who set up stall at a local garden centre ready for Nov 5, and he used to say he could supply for any time of year but wouldn't contemplate any sale worth less than £30 (this was 10-15 years ago).