What more is there to say? Fireworks are a mature technology. Machine guns are a mature technology. Flare pistols are a mature technology. Combine in one affordable mass=produced consumer package for instant impromptu celebratory displays. Sidney Harber-Bryge eat your heart out.
-- pocmloc, Jan 02 2016

Mk 47 Striker https://en.wikipedi.../wiki/Mk_47_Striker
Incredibly expensive to use, appalingly addictive .. [8th of 7, Jan 02 2016]

Colourful blanks colourful_20blanks
Admittedly, only on a personal scale [wjt, Jan 03 2016]

Automatic shotguns https://en.wikipedi...i/Automatic_shotgun
Not too many around, but they do exist. Flare shells exist in 12 gauge, so I suppose that combo there makes this somewhat baked. [Custardguts, Jan 04 2016]

Harry Potter and the Ghetto Street War https://www.youtube...watch?v=G0OGjPzHOB0
baked, apparently [sninctown, Jan 05 2016]

Fireworks shotgun shells are also a "mature technology"
-- FlyingToaster, Jan 02 2016


[suggested-for-deletion], Baked & WKTE. And great fun.

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Honorary [+], but sadly not an innovation.
-- 8th of 7, Jan 02 2016


I'm using ”fireworks” as a technical term here, and the Mk 47 seems to not actually shoot fireworks, but shells. Also, I have yet to see an automatic shotgun (am I showing my naïvety there?)
-- pocmloc, Jan 02 2016


Yes.

The Mk 47 has a wide range of stores available; illumnating and signal flares, coloured smokes (including airburst), WP ... definitely pyrotechnics.
-- 8th of 7, Jan 02 2016


I know there are machine guns that shoot airburst rounds but I've never seen one specifically designed just to make pretty patterns in the sky like you could with this.
-- doctorremulac3, Jan 02 2016


Only gets a bun if it's 1) it's a gatling gun and 2) it's powered by many hamster wheels geared together. Getting ear protection in hamster size could be a problem.
-- not_morrison_rm, Jan 03 2016



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