I heard about the fireworks debaucle, I wasn't around then. I spent the better part of the 80's jumping out of perfectly good aircraft.........

I lived in Minnesota for a while not long ago, and personal fireworks were against the law. The legislature passed a law while I was there ok'ing the sale of spaklers and other relatively harmless ground based fireworks. You should have heard and seen the hand wringing and teeth knashing. You would have thought someone proposed giving the chimps in the zoo loaded pistols...