For the most part, you can legally drive with fireworks in your car as long as you have less than 1000 
pounds. If you have more than 1000 pounds your vehicle has to be placarded (specified signs on the 
outside of the vehicle). If you are driving through a state where fireworks are illegal, it is supposed 
to be OK as long as your destination is another state where fireworks are legal. Of course there will 
always be local authorities who won't know this, or will disagree with this, and may try to confiscate 
your fireworks. This happens sometimes at state lines, if fireworks are illegal in one of the states. It's 
nonsense. As long as your final destination is a place where fireworks are legal, and you can prove that's 
where your destination is. The1aw is on your side. But... 

Every year, the problem of temporary border check points comes up. Some officers in some states where 
fireworks are illegal, but a neighboring state sells fireworks legally, seem to think it is their duty 
to set up a roadblock at the state line and stop all cars and check for fireworks being brought in. 
The constitutionality of this type of search is doubtful, especially since a recent Supreme Court ruling 
regarding car searches and seizures. But try arguing the constitution with a bespectacled, grumpy, 
overweight officer standing there at a state line with a gun in his holster. Your best bet, if you know 
there are going to be roadblocks, is to shop very early in the season before they set up these roadblocks. 
If you wait until late June or July to make your purchases, you might be driving into a trap. Try an 
alternate route to cross the state line which may not have a blockade. 

You cannot take fireworks on commercial airlines in the United States, period. Not in checked baggage, 
not carry-on baggage, not on your person. No fireworks, period. Not even a pack of firecrackers, not even 
a few sparklers. Don't bring fireworks to an airport or attempt to hide them in your luggage, not even a 
small quantity. This is not new - this has been the ru1e for many years. 

For the past few years, people are saying things like, they brought home an interesting pack of firecrackers 
or a box of sparklers from some foreign country or even within the United States, and it was well hidden in 
their luggage, and they "got away with it." Don't do it: The possible legal penalties are severe, not to 
mention the fact that you would be compromising the safety of the flight. 

What if you're in some faraway, exotic place in the world, and you get some rare, unusual, beautiful pack of 
firecrackers that nobody at home has ever seen, or even heard of? Resist the temptation to put that pack in 
your suitcase. Carefully remove the paper label from the pack, and just take the paper label home with you. 
Leave the actual firecrackers behind and forget them. The label alone will have some value to collectors. 

Also, you cannot ship fireworks by air courier services such as FedEx and many others. You can not mail 
fireworks through the U.S. Post Office in any way. They do not accept fireworks. UPS does Dot accept fireworks 
either. The only way to send fireworks in the U.S. is by private, commercial trucking lines and transportation 
services that will accept fireworks and not all will. Fireworks should never travel by air at anytime, in any 
country. They should only travel by surface means (car, truck, rail, or boat).