I think a lot of customers are going to be buying more here because they won't have to drive a 20-minute drive to go to Tennessee."
Dania Sosa has sold sparklers, fountains and other small, nonexplosive fireworks for the past eight years at a TNT Fireworks tent in Dalton, Ga.
Business should pick up today, since Georgia’s new law loosening restrictions on fireworks sales takes effect, and TNT will open a storefront in Dalton and 50 other locations in the Peach State to sell formerly forbidden “consumer fireworks” such as bottle rockets, firecrackers and Roman candles.
“This year, we’re going to get all the big stuff,” Sosa said Tuesday. “I have a lot of people coming by and asking already. We’re excited to see how much product we sell.”
The new law means Georgia residents won’t have to travel to Tennessee, Alabama or South Carolina to legally buy fireworks.