Editing Firecracker (section)

===United States===
According to ''Reader's Digest'', as of June 2023 firecrackers are legal in every US state besides Massachusetts, though the exact types allowed vary.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bryant |first1=Kelly |title=These are the states where fireworks are legal in 2023 |url=https://www.rd.com/article/states-where-fireworks-are-legal/ |website=Reader's Digest |date=19 May 2021 |access-date=5 December 2023}}</ref>

In 2007, [[New York City]] lifted its decade-old ban on firecrackers, allowing a display of 300,000 firecrackers to be set off in [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Chinatown]]'s [[Chatham Square (Manhattan)|Chatham Square]].<ref>[http://www.nypost.com/seven/02172007/entertainment/can_you_pig_it__entertainment_ava_chin.htm Can you pig it? New York goes hog-wild for Chinese New Year] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219051214/http://www.nypost.com/seven/02172007/entertainment/can_you_pig_it__entertainment_ava_chin.htm |date=February 19, 2007}}, ''[[New York Post]]'', February 17, 2007.</ref> Under the supervision of the [[Los Angeles Fire Department|fire]] and [[Los Angeles Police Department|police]] departments, [[Chinatown, Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] regularly lights firecrackers every New Year's Eve, mostly at temples and the shrines of benevolent associations. The [[San Francisco]] Chinese New Year Parade, the largest outside China, is accompanied by numerous firecrackers, both officially sanctioned and illicit.