A Colorado family has seen great business in recent years for their firework sales company thanks to a relatively new shop in Wyoming. The Elliott family built “Artillery World Fireworks” just north of the Colorado and Wyoming border in an effort to sell fireworks to Coloradans that are otherwise illegal to sell in the centennial state.
Coloradans have long traveled to Wyoming to purchase the fireworks they cannot find in Colorado. However, now when they enter Wyoming, they are greeted in-part by a large white building that is covered with signage boasting of the ownership’s Colorado ties.
Pete Elliott is the owner of the fireworks company which was started by his father in Colorado in the 1960’s. Since then he has expanded around Colorado and now into Wyoming.
And in tradition, Pete has included his family in the success of the company today.
Working the store in Wyoming is a 13-year-old a big personality and a work ethic of an executive. Aubrey Elliot, Pete’s daughter, is one of his four kids that help out at the family business.