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Tom is going out with a bang.

Lucas: This sucker is filled with 150 grains of black powder. AKA gunpowder. Strap two of these together, and it's bigger than an M-80. Five of them, we've got ourselves a stick of dynamite.
Max: You wanna kill that thing with fireworks?

One of the wackier ways to cash in your chips, at least in cartoons. As fireworks contain many of the chemicals used in the manufacture of weaponized explosives, they can be a form of Improvised Weapon. In animated shows this tends to backfire, with the user riding a rocket into the air, where it explodes into a firework shaped like the person who was riding it. Of course, they'll still be none the worse for wear because of Amusing Injuries.

This also covers fireworks accidents, even when it doesn't necessarily result in death. It's about the use, intended or not, of fireworks to cause serious harm.

This is Truth in Television. Every year people are killed and injured by accidents involving/deliberate misuse of fireworks. There are persistent efforts to restrict fireworks to organized displays only due to danger, accidents, misuse, nuisance, noise etc. There are regulations for consumer use such as in the Canadian province of Ontario, where the sale of fireworks is restricted to a few days before the holidays Victoria Day and Canada Day respectively. Pets are often traumatized by them and many pets are lost (bolting)/killed (by running into traffic etc.) by fireworks going off.

There's a chance these fireworks can be used as Chekhov's Gun, especially if they were used earlier. See also Flare Gun, which has its own trope. Compare Fantastic Fireworks, which aren't weaponized.


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    Anime & Manga 
  • Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Inverted in the third Sound Stage, where Nanoha re-purposes her Starlight Breaker spell as fireworks to celebrate the anniversary of Fate and Arf's familiar contract.
  • One Piece:
    • Inverted in one instance were a lot of bazooka-wielding Marines are surrounding the Straw Hat crew, Brook uses his Magic Music to make them hallucinate being in a party, and then tell them to fire their bazookas upward like fireworks.
    • Sanji's Aloof Big Brother Ichiji uses this his signature elemental power, creating flashes of light with his punches that can pierce through enemies or explode on impact. It's earned him the nickname "Sparking Red" Ichiji.
  • Pandemonium Wizard Village: Brow steals one of Zipher's fireworks and causes a massive fire to break out by setting it off wrong. Thankfully, Zipher saved him, though Zipher loses an eye in the process.
  • Sailor Moon: One of the Daimons, Soyia, had this ability. She used it to make Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars look like laughing stock by firing fireworks into the air and making them have to dance to avoid them.

    Asian Animation 

    Fan Works 
  • Firework magic is featured in Blossoming Hearts, which also doubles as Chloe's specialty.
  • In The Rigel Black Chronicles, the Weasley Twins give Harry a small disk of their own invention before the first Triwizard Task, enchanted with the equivalent of several crates of fireworks. It's first and foremost in case she needs a serious distraction, but if it's not needed, it's also a way to celebrate the finish. She uses the first one to scare off a dragon, and later uses a second one in an enclosed space to cripple two attackers.

    Film — Animated 
  • An American Tail: At the end when the mice drive off the cats, the Giant Mouse of Minsk they build includes batteries of fireworks rockets that they fire at the fleeing cats to give them just that much more motivation to leave.
  • Kung Fu Panda 2: Lord Shen uses cannons that shoot firework-like projectiles. In this universe, peacocks used fireworks for centuries, but Shen was the first one to weaponize them and use them to take over China.
  • Mulan: At the end, Shan Yu is blasted by a firework that was lit by Mushu. It then hits a tower filled with them, triggering a explosion that kills him. Mulan launched a firework earlier in the movie that hit the peak of a mountain, triggering an avalanche that killed off Shan Yu's entire army (though in that case it was more akin to primitive mortars, already being intended as weapons).
  • The Rescuers: The animals set off Mr. Snoops' fireworks inside Madame Medusa's riverboat to distract the villains and destroy the riverboat while they save Penny. No one is hurt, but Mr. Snoops' clothes in particular do reduced to tatters from this.
  • Toy Story: Sid ties Buzz to a rocket with the intent of firing it and watching it and Buzz blow up. Woody later uses the rocket to catch up to the moving van (or the car Andy's in, to be more specific), jumping off just before the explosion.

    Film — Live Action 
  • Athena (2022): Downplayed. Fireworks are heavily used by Athena's inhabitants and Karim's followers, but they don't kill anyone. Instead, they are used to keep the police at a distance and start fires.
  • In Cold War, mercenaries recruited by the movie's Big Bad rig up some fireworks on the rooftop of a high-rise building when the Special Duties Unit storms the area during an anti-terrorist operation. The SDU was led to an ambush when the fireworks were used as improvised rocket launchers. This caused severe casualties with several SDU operators killed or heavily wounded, partially due to limbs lost in the ambush.
  • The climactic action sequence of Deep Blue Sea involves stuffing the black powder of multiple flares inside of a hollow spear shaft to create a makeshift pipe bomb and then shooting it at the remaining genetically engineered mako shark to blow it up. It is mentioned that the amount of black powder that the heroes are firing (salvaged from about five flares) is enough for 2.5 sticks of dynamite. This whole scenario was tested by the Mythbusters and it was utterly busted — the only thing that wasn't in the realm of Artistic License – Explosives is that black powder explodes.
  • Dumb and Dumber To: Harry and Lloyd decide to "prank" the (unbeknowst to them) hitman who has joined them on their journey by filling his bedroom with about a hundred firecrackers while he's sleeping. This results in him being set on fire and jumping into the nearby pool to get out of it relatively unscatched.
  • Final Destination 3: The finale takes place at a tricentennial, featuring fireworks. Said fireworks set off a horse that manages to nearly kill one character (and upon failing to do so, kill another), and at the end of the scene, the fireworks nearly hit the three main characters, only to cause the death of the film's only human antagonist.
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix modifies Fred and George's triumphant exit from Hogwarts to include a dragon shaped firework chasing Umbridge harmlessly in a shout out to the Fellowship of the Ring example.
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Thankfully not fatal, but fireworks encountered by the Crumps in the shop's basement were pretty close...
  • Land of the Dead: The so-called "Sky Flowers" (as Charlie refers to them) are used to distract the zombies and turn them into sitting ducks to either be ran past or killed off effortlessly. It's a major Oh, Crap! moment late in the film when the zombies stop falling for it.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring has a comedic, non-fatal example: at Bilbo's birthday party, Pippin and Merry steal and launch one of Gandalf's firework rockets, ending up with an Ash Face.

    Literature 
  • Discworld
    • The Fifth Elephant: In the finale, Vimes fashions a makeshift rocket from a road flare, despite knowing that the tremendously inaccurate propulsion will make it almost impossible to hit anything. He's counting on his enemy, a werewolf, to fall prey to his own instincts and catch it.
    • In Jingo, Leonard of Quirm has designed a rocket launcher weapon, but because of having to make it in a hurry from available materials, the rocket has "A riot of coloured balls and stars" written on it.
  • In The Fantastic Flying Journey, the passengers of Belladonna use fireworks to scare away a pack of Savage Wolves from a herd of musk oxen.
  • Non-fatal, but a thrown firecracker in Follow My Leader leads to Jimmy losing his sight permanently.
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Weasley twins use fireworks as one of many ways to harass Umbridge. In the film version, they attack her with fireworks while making their epic get away.
  • In Kim, on his way to find Mahbub Ali, Kim joins a firework-maker who takes him to a party for a local king in Patiala. At the party, the fireworks were lit all at once, causing a blast that killed eleven men, including the firework-maker, and blew Kim accross a tent, but of course survived.
  • In Utopia, by Lincoln Child, Dr. Warne kills a terrorist using a fireworks mortar as an improvised bazooka and stops the terrorist's armored truck by using his pet robot, which is carrying about 10 pounds of flash powder, as a suicide bomber.
  • The Wheel of Time: Despite fireworks having been around for about a thousand years, nobody has weaponized them, apparently because the Guild of Illuminators that monopolizes the technology has sought to prevent it. After Mat accidentally discovers their destructive capabilities in the third book, he occasionally uses fireworks as backup weapons, until he is able to work with a disgraced Illuminator to use her expertise to make actual cannons.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Altered Carbon. Harlan's World is girdled by "angelfire", a network of Elder Kill Sats that automatically fire on anything that flies too high. On Harlan's Day the inhabitants shoot firework rockets into the sky which erupt when the angelfire opens fire on them. When Governor Harlan wants to eliminate some suspected traitors before Colonel Carrera can interrogate them, she has them Bound and Gagged and strapped to the firework rockets at her official reception.
  • Batman (1966): In the episode, "The Joker's Flying Saucer", the Joker ties Batgirl to a giant fireworks rocket.
  • Code Red: In the episode, "Fireworks," a teenage street dealer in illegal fireworks causes havoc in the city, including accidentally starting a structure fire that Chief Rorchek's battalion has to deal with. Later, Joe has to reprimand Danny for fooling around with sparklers, the firefighters give a presentation describing how dangerous the careless use of fireworks is and Danny has to help a friend who is severely burned when a firecracker explodes in his hand.
  • Doctor Who: In "The Five Doctors", the Second Doctor uses a firework to drive off a Yeti in the tunnels under Rassilon's Tower.
    • In Doctor Who 2022 NYS "Eve of the Daleks" (which takes place in both a timeloop and a storage unit complex]] the Doctor and companions (and episode guest stars) discover one storage room just FILLED with illegal fireworks. The last loop sees them tricking the Daleks into firing into it and it causes a chain reaction which blows up the complex and the Daleks inside.
  • London's Burning had a Very Special Episode set on Guy Fawkes Night in which this trope natually played a role. Blue Watch only had to deal with one directly fireworks-related callout — most of the episode was spent putting out excessively large bonfires that were threatening to take nearby houses with them — but it was a truly spectacular one: A partygoer managed to inadvertently launch a rocket through his host's kitchen window and set the building on fire, and as if that wasn't enough property damage for one night the responding fire trucks had to nudge their way through a mass of parked cars to get to the scene. The man whose recklessness caused the fire in the first place got his brand new car's rear wing thoroughly bashed in.
  • A Scare at Bedtime has the Halloween Episode "Never Shove a Banger Up Your Arse on Halloween", where Fester and Ailin sing a charming ditty about handling fireworks responsibly, all the while interspersed with shots of twitching, blown-off hands. In addition, Ailin is mentioned to have had a firework lodged inside of him, and that it could go off anytime soon...
    Fester (noticing Ailin near the bonfire): "A-Ailin, you're awful close to the fire there, I don't think- (BOOM) Ooh, Jesus..."
  • Stranger Things: Downplayed. Although Lucas extols this trope's potential ("Strap two of these [fireworks] together, and it's bigger than an M-80"), the fireworks the characters hurl at the Mind Flayer's earthly form seem to be minor annoyances at best.
  • The Whiz Kid And The Carnival Caper: In the climax, the eponymous Whiz Kid Alvin sets off a fireworks display in order to disorient the bad guys trying to rob the carnival and to alert the police that something is going on they should investigate.

    Puppet Shows 
  • In the Direct to Video film Muppet Classic Theater retelling of "The Three Little Pigs", Miss Piggy (portraying the third pig) thwarts The Big Bad Wolf's attempt to break in through the chimney dressed as Santa Claus by firing an enormous rocket up it, sending the wolf soaring into stratosphere.

    Radio 
  • Our Miss Brooks: In the episode "School Safety Advisor", Dumb Jock Stretch Snodgrass brings an enormous firecracker to school, preparatory to setting it off for the Fourth of July. Stretch accidentally gets the fuse wet, so he attempts to dry it off with a match. This lights the fuse; fortunately a quick-thinking Miss Brooks throws the firecracker into an empty supply room. Alas, the room wasn't so empty after all! Principal Osgood Conklin emerges relatively unharmed from that minor explosion!

    Tabletop Games 
  • Pathfinder: The spell Snapdragon Fireworks, most likely inspired by the Lord of the Rings example, allows you to shoot off a tiny dragon-shaped firework each round that damages and dazzles opponents. In a campaign that allows the existence of gunpowder, a wide variety of fireworks can be crafted by anyone with a good rank in alchemy and used as weapons, albeit seriously unpredictable and dangerous ones.
  • Turnip 28: St Alamei's Rocket Batteries are poorly maintained, rickety fireworks racks, guarded by troops who are themselves carrying a quantity of similar items. The Batteries don't actually do much damage - they bypass saves, but five shots with a 6+ Inaccuracy isn't going to intimidate anybody that much - but not only will the target unit take panic tokens, the nearest unit to them will as well, and the troops protecting the Batteries can calm themselves down by blowing up their own models and spread more panic tokens around when they're wiped out.
  • Warhammer:
    • The Throne of Chaos describes a Cathayan army shooting enchanted fireworks against an invading Chaos horde.
    • The Imperial Helstorm Rocket Battery was inspired in-universe by the inventor witnessing the fireworks display given by the Cathayan ambassador to the Empire, and the name comes not from its effects against enemies but the storm of profanity emmitted by an Imperial noble nearly killed by the thing.

    Video Games 
  • Battle Realms: Dragon Clan Chemists use firework rockets in battle to rain explosive damage on enemies from afar.
  • Borderlands:
  • Bully has few types of firecrackers (one what can be thrown at people and one what is set on the ground and detonates after a while) as weapons.
  • In CarnEvil, Final Boss Ludwig von Tokkentakker gets desperate when his health is low and begins launching a barrage of fireworks at the player.
  • In Dead Rising 2, fireworks are usable not only as distractions but also as combo weapons to kill zombies.
  • In Epic Mickey, Mickey and Oswald defeat the Shadow Blot by launching fireworks at him.
  • Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator allows you to cause whatever undue chaos with fireworks you want, including setting fires and even causing a gas station to explode.
  • Genshin Impact: Yoimiya is a young, energetic lady who works as an artificer for Inazuma, the region she lives in. She's also an archer who weaponizes said fireworks, empowering her attacks with them. Appropiately enough, she has a Pyro Vision.
  • Get Amped: One of the pick-up weapons you can find is a fireworks stick that you can use to launch fireworks at enemies. One of the "accessories" lets the user use different kinds of fireworks to attack enemies.
  • Grand Theft Auto V has a weapon called the Firework Launcher, which is a make-shift rocket launcher that shoots fireworks.
  • In Higurashi Daybreak, Satoko has two weaponsets based on fireworks.
  • Jade Empire: Subverted, as the philosophers grudgingly hosting Sir Roderick Ponce von Fondlebottom complain that he keeps winning duels with that "strange firework" of his. By which they mean his gun.
  • Kid Icarus: Uprising: One of powers is called Celestial Fireworks, what launches a firework upwards what blows up after a short while. It is also one of Palutena's moves in Super Smash Bros.
  • Kingdom Hearts:
  • Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards has the Fire + Bomb combination, which allows Kirby to turn himself into deadly fireworks.
  • MadWorld features the boss of the China Town area being a bulky sumo fighter who Jack can't beat unless he wrestles him into fireworks cannons. Three goes kills him.
  • Megaman And Bass: Inverted with Burst Man, as the CD Data entry explains that he likes to shoot off his weapons as fireworks in his downtime.
  • Metal Slug: Occasionally, the Rebel soldiers will attempt to assault your player character with flung fireworks, that can kill your character in one hit (much like everything else in the game).
  • Minecraft: In the 1.11.1 update, firework rockets were updated to cause damage to anyone caught in the blast. When crossbows were added to the game, players became able to create rocket launchers by loading crossbows with firework rockets.
  • Mugen Souls:
    • The undisputed goddess Chou Chou's special attack Seven's Impact has her release 7 energy streams that explodes in a barrage of fireworks on her enemy, knocking them high up in the air.
    • Ryuto's special attack AbsoRyutoly Heroic turns his enemy into a ground spinner after he impales them with his sword.
  • In Ōkami and Ōkamiden, the Cherry Bomb brush technique explodes into a shower of fireworks.
  • The Price of Flesh: One of the numerous possible ways you can die is by Derek scorching you with fireworks before finishing you off with a firecracker in your mouth.
  • Super Mario Bros.:
    • Mario Party 5: The minigame Rain of Fire begins as Bowser uses his fire breath to ignite a cannon's fuse so it launches a large firework skyward. When it explodes, its debris begin falling onto the characters' area in the form of small fireballs. The objective, logically, is to dodge them. Those who get hit by any fireball will lose the minigame and face whatever punishment Bowser decided prior to the start of the minigame.
    • Paper Mario: Color Splash: At the end, fireworks are fired during the party to celebrate Mario's saving of Prism Island. At one point, Bowser and his minions are seen in a patched-up airship struggling to fly when a stray firework collides with it, exploding and sending the ship, Bowser and the Koopalings crashing.
  • Project Zomboid has sparklers that you can scavenge from household utility drawers. These are completely useless—you can't even combine them with matches or a lighter to have a little celebration. Unless you are the Engineer profession, in which case you can use them as the fuse on an incendiary bomb made from hairspray.
  • Sengoku Basara 3 Utage: In one stage, beating Kanetsugu causes him to be knocked into a giant fireworks cannon and is fired from it alongside a firework what blows up on him.
  • Senran Kagura: Hanabi uses fireworks as part of her fighting style alongside a hammer what itself can store fireworks to turn it into a Rocket-Powered Weapon and launch fireworks.
  • Sly Cooper:
    • Panda King attempted to become a firework artist but after he was shunned by the nobles due of his poor background, he used the knowledge of fireworks to use them as weapons, eventually becoming the demolitions expert of the Fiendish Five.
    • In Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, the world of aforementioned Panda King has fireworks laying around which you can ignite to launch at enemies or at obstacles.
    • Panda King would later join the Cooper Gang following a change of heart in Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, and as such, became playable. His specialty is being able to lock onto multiple targets with a volley of fireworks, which he manually loads into a launcher he has strapped on his back. Once the launcher is fully loaded, he releases all the fireworks like guided missiles, seeking all targeted opponents.
  • Spyro the Dragon: The original trilogy has several instances where Spyro is able to light up fireworks that can be used to destroy otherwise indestructible chests or powerful enemies. In fact, the third game has an entire level built around the concept (Fireworks Factory).
  • Starbound has the Zephyr Spark Launcher. In a subversion of this trope, its rockets do piddly damage against enemies. This might have something to do with the fact that the fireworks in this game are merely toys and not weapons. That said though, there do exist mods that can buff its damage output into something more serviceable.
  • Sunset Overdrive:
    • The Roman Candle shoots out red and blue fireworks in rapid-fire succession. The weapon is a good crowd clearing weapon, because of small explosions made from contact.
    • Firework rockets fired from the One-Handed Dragon set fire on anything they stick to. The burning targets will soon be met with spectacular green explosions when the rockets explode.
  • Super Smash Bros.:
    • One item in third installment is a fireworks launcher that functions as a portable mortar.
    • In the fourth installment, Villager uses a fountain firework as an upward smash attack.
  • Terraria has the firework rockets sold by the Party Girl. They're furniture that can deals 150 damage to whatever they hit. And yes, you can kill enemies and bosses with them... very quickly in fact.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has Crossette, a DLC-exclusive Fire elemental Blade who is themed around fireworks. Her special moves all involve blasting the enemy with increasingly elaborate firework displays.

    Web Original 
  • Dream SMP: At the Manburg Festival, Schlatt orders Technoblade to perform a Public Execution on Tubbo for treason and being The Mole, and Techno winds up using a firework-loaded crossbow to do so. However, when the splash damage winds up killing Schlatt as well, Techno goes on a rampage and starts shooting fireworks at the audience who are Forced to Watch as well.
  • Life SMP: While their first major use in combat as explosive projectiles is on Day 6 of 3rd Life, during a skirmish at Dogwarts, it isn't until Last Life when they play a major role in a player's demise.
    • For Last Life, Lizzie fills most of her hot-bar with firework-loaded crossbows and unleashes a fair amount of them onto Bdubs when he betrays her on Day 7. While Lizzie loses her final life, her firework rockets weaken Bdubs enough that he's killed by his fellow Red Names when he tries to run. On Day 9 of the same series, Grian and Joel arm themselves with firework rockets for their rampage and end up killing Pearl with them.
    • In the Double Life finale, Joel decides to utilize the same plan to kill Scott for burning the Relation-Ship in the previous episode, only with stronger rockets. He credits Lizzie for the idea from the last season.
    • From Day 6 of Limited Life, the T.I.E.S. use firework-loaded crossbows as weapons in fights alongside normal bows, melee weapons, and End crystals. While other factions like the Bad Boys also use crossbows, the T.I.E.S. are the only ones to use firework rockets as projectiles.

    Western Animation 
  • Classic Disney Shorts: In the climax of "Magician Mickey", Donald Duck grabs Mickey Mouse's prop gun and uses it against him. It fires firework-like blasts that sends Mickey up into the rafters with stagehand Goofy. Then Donald fires one more shot up at them, which is a huge firework rocket that brings literally the house down. Amazingly, no one seems to have been killed in the inferno caused by the fireworks, but Donald in particular is much the worse for wear.
  • The Donald Duck short "Donald's Nephews" had this as the explanation for why Huey, Dewey, and Louie came to live with him. They had placed a firecracker under their father's chair. DuckTales (2017) would later use this as a Mythology Gag to explain how Scrooge ended up looking after Donald and Della in the episode "The First Adventure!".
  • The main plot of the Family Guy episode "Whistle While Your Wife Works" kicks off when a firecracker blows up in Peter's hand, scattering his fingers, forcing Lois to cover for him at work.
  • Merrie Melodies: In "It's Hummer Time!", one of the punishments the dog gives the cat is "Happy Birthday," where the cat is given a birthday cake with firecrackers instead of candles and he must blow them out before they go off. Of course he doesn't succeed.
  • Mister Go: One short has the titular character celebrating New Year's Eve with his dog Bip, and bringing a boxful of fireworks rockets. After setting off one indoors he decides to launch another out the window, but when it seems to be a dud, Mr. Go angrily grabs it and shakes it trying to make it work, and only then does the rocket take off, taking him along for the ride. The rocket eventually crashes and explodes, leaving Mr. Go to celebrate the New Year as a Bandage Mummy.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "To Where and Back Again, Part 2", Trixie uses her homemade fireworks as weaponry when fighting the changelings — their Anti-Magic barrier does quite little to protect them from a face full of bottle rockets.
  • The New Adventures of Superman: In "Luthor's Fatal Fireworks", Lex Luthor captures Jimmy Olsen to lure Superman to the West Coast where he unleashes a bombardment of fireworks laced with kryptonite.
  • Phineas and Ferb: In "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together!", Dr. Doofenshmirtz tries to strap his archnemesis Perry the Platypus to a giant rocket/firework. Perry, of course, escapes, and Doof ends up strapped to the rocket when it goes off.
  • Tom and Jerry:
    • In "The Yankee Doodle Mouse", Tom and Jerry throw firecrackers at each other, and at one point Tom fires Roman candles at Jerry. The short ends with Tom's hands tied to a large firework rocket, right before it takes off.
    • In "Safety Second", Jerry keeps being subject to exploding fireworks being set off by Nibbles on the 4th of July. Later they both team together to attack Tom with fireworks which ends with Tom holding onto a firework rocket and being launched for a display of death.
  • Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner: Wile E. Coyote would often purchase these from Acme Products to combat the Roadrunner, especially the rocket ones, which he would usually ride. (And would usually blow up in mid-air with him on it.)

    Real Life 
  • Explosions in fireworks factories are both pretty and terrifying.
  • In imperial China, the "hive of bees" weapon involved archers conventionally loosing an arrow to which was attached a rudimentary rocket. At first intended to greatly lengthen the effective range of arrows, this aspect was dropped when it was realised that an attached and lit rocket made the arrow wildly inaccurate. However, a hundred or more archers each firing such an enhanced arrow at the same time, in the general direction of an enemy, could exert a massive morale impact due to their noise, general unreliability and propensity to explode on impact. And being hit by an arrow is bad enough: being hit by one that then explodes would be worse.
  • On the strike of New Years Day 2016, a drunken man in the Philippines was killed by hugging a giant firecracker.
  • Flare Guns were used as weapons in World Wars I and II, with the German army even developing grenades that could be fired from the guns, and infamously in the Korean War Lieutenant Edward Mastronardi killed a Chinese soldier with a flare gun. On the civilian side they are often seen as an attractive choice for a self-defense gun, as they are loud and bright (likely to attract attention), could easily blind or ignite the clothing of an assailant, and are rather easy to obtain, but they're not guaranteed to do any of this and thus overshadowed by legitimate self-defense weapons if available, like tasers, pepper spray, or conventional firearms.

 
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