Posted on 02/02/2015 10:57:51 AM PST by GIdget2004
Another good reason to deregulate gun mufflers, and make them cheap and common.
“As an addendum to my prior comment, if YOU were my neighbor and decided to exercise your right to turn your back yard into a gun range, I would then exercise my right to set off loud fireworks outside your bedroom window about 2:00 a.m. every morning......”
I suspect that there are noise ordinanced, and that he will have to obey them.
This guy set up an amateurish, half *ssed BB gun target range in a crowded suburban neighborhood, and thinks he can freely fire off 9mm?
That kind of idiocy wouldn't even be allowed in the mostly rural county directly north, in the mostly rural area's, where the minimum private acreage is generally about 5-10 acre lots.
This area of Florida is almost entirely flatland, and sparsely wooded.Even when I lived way out in the country, my defensive rounds were special hollow points, lest a stray shot travel too far...
I wouldn't mind the noise disturbing my neighbor if I needed to defend myself, but neither one of us would appreciate it if the shots fired damaged his property, or God forbid, anyone in his house or yard!
From what I have read, backyard ranges were common up until about 1950, even in New York State.
Shooting in urban areas has gradually been demonized for decades.
It is hard to say if these ordinaces reduced accidents with firearms.
A lot of short range shooting is done with reduced loads.
Firearms accidents today are at the lowest level in a hundred years.
I'm not advocating for a team of black-clad BATF paratroopers to jump into the guy's yard to stop him (although that would be kinda cool to watch - you gotta get 'em on the fly to be legal and the limit is four) but come on, guy, show a little common sense. This thing can engender multiple angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin impassioned discussions about personal rights versus community safety, but this one is just plain dumb. Here's the bottom line: if he shoots into that pile of junk long enough somebody is going to get hurt and it may well be him. He's free to take that risk for himself but not to pass it on.
That said, my next-door neighbor has a 50-ft range in his barn and I'm all jealoused out. It's .22 only due more to ventilation than anything else, but nothing is going to escape the place. My place is sort of downrange but I see the care he's taken for safety and it doesn't bother me a bit. The guy in the article, not so much.
Perhaps someone will give him a hand in setting up a somewhat safer trap.
A Tampa range gave him a free membership, if he dismantled his stupid and dangerous private crappy set-up.
I'm torn on this one.
While I'm glad the neighbors are no longer endangered by this particular idiot, that's not going to stop the nanny state government pushing for a “new law for all”, supposedly for the public safety.
He will be back in the news one day.
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