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Closed Fireworks should only be sold in registered gun shops

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Restrict the sale of fireworks to just registered gun dealers. Gun dealers are competent and qualified in firearms and ammunition so are certainly the right people for judging whom they sell too.
This will prevent fireworks from falling into the hands of youths and the wrong people.

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    Nearly 750,000 people have signed petitions about fireworks in the last three years.

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