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Posted on 02/22/2014 6:44:46 AM PST by KeyLargo
[Video] Soldier’s Target Practice With Air Rifle at His Home Results in School Lockdowns, Arrest at Gunpoint February 21 2014
by Dan Cannon Share This Post
A current active duty soldier and Iraq War veteran’s target practice with an air rifle landed him in hot water this week.
The soldier was shooting at a target he setup on the side of his home with an air rifle. One of the projectiles (likely a BB or pellet) struck the glass at an under construction home nearby. It’s unclear if a ricochet was to blame or if it was a bad miss.
Unfortunately for the soldier, a Homeland Security agent who was a potential buyer of the home was inside it at the time. He called in an active shooter situation to local authorities. This resulted in two nearby schools being shutdown, a massive police response, including SWAT teams as well as an armored vehicle, and the soldier, 25-year-old Ramon Hooks, was taken into custody at gun point. He now faces charges of criminal mischief.
According to KHOU,
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Probably a powerful pellet gun, not a BB gun. But shooter was pretty stupid to not know the 4th rule of gun safety.
The article lacks facts. We don’t know what the property owner experienced.
Agreed. But that’s standard when it comes to the enemedia and guns.
I found a link to Texas law regards air rifles.
Like most such laws the focus is on safety and projectiles crossing property lines, etc.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/pdf/SB01400I.pdf#navpanes=0
People here are ignoring the possibility he had counterfeit NFL merchandize bought at a Boston strip bar — if so that would require DHS to get paid to return to the strip bar.
For much more investigation.
You see?
AH! So Texas USED TO classify air rifles as firearms, but they removed it from the law.
Thanks for clearing that up.
“The article lacks facts. We don’t know what the property owner experienced.”
“Turned out, an Iraqi war veteran was using an air rifle for target practice. He accidentally fired a shot into one of the homes under construction. An off-duty Homeland Security agent – and potential buyer — just happened to be inside that house when the glass shattered right next to him.
He looked out and saw the soldier holding what he thought was a telescopically high-powered rifle so he called the sheriff.”
When I teach lefties the basics a the golf swing, I have to drink afterwords.
Most cities do classify pellet guns as firearms. In our town, a kids plastic bow and arrow cannot be discharged in your own back yard.
P.S. I do shoot grackles with my pellet guns.
It looks a whole lot to me that this world is getting more and more full of fear. This is another example. A small, unfortunate accident resulted in an anti-terrorism-scale response.
Terrorists of this age are not even so much generating the fear as riding on the crest of a wave of demonic activity. If the 9/11 events had never happened, Satan would have found something else. And God has let this fear happen because He wants us to take warning that there is something better.
Maybe I’ve been sounding like a snake oil salesman by pressing the gospel here, but it truly is the way to “get right with God.” When that happens you can be fearless again, and even better tolerate the others who aren’t as fearless. God is a God of courage. He hasn’t given us a spirit of timidity. If we choose that God will be whom we fear, then we needn’t fear anything else. What is the worst that can happen then? We die, then go to heaven.
I think the Homeland Security is a bunch of wannabe Rambos who are just as fake as the movie.
The day Bush announced the creation of the agency he was added to my list of persons inimical to American liberty.Pretty much everything Bush did in the War On Terror was BS.It has been a War On Freedom instead.
Finally this story is starting to make sense ;’)
And then like this worldful of chickens he did what?
In an earlier age, he might have marched over to the soldier, said hello, and then demanded an explanation.
Be careful or you will find yourself on your own list of security craving, freedom hating chickens too.
Call the police? Maybe my sensibilities are not as finely tuned as yours. Most likely I’d amble over, point out what happened, politely ask him to man up for damages and after all that would probably help him set up his target a little better.
It’s a freakin’ BB gun for God’s sake. Take a deep breath and step away from your 911 auto-dialer already.
Texas law states that you cannot discharge a firearm on any subdivided (less than 10 acre) property, within 100 feet of a highway, and 300 feet of an occupied residence.
However, a BB gun or pellet air gun is not considered a firearm in Texas.
That said, shooters cannot fire their BB guns in public or across the line of any private property. Should the shooter break this law, he could be charged with a Class A misdemeanor for disturbing.
The guy for Homeland is beyond stupid.
Seems to say that this DHS honcho “thought” he saw a high powered rifle.
But seems also to me that if a high powered bullet had gone through that window it would have made a “bit” more of an impression than a mere pellet. Like that bullet would have sang as it went. And if a wall existed past the glass, it would have gotten punched through.
Someone isn’t teaching these honchos the difference between kinds of ammo. Buck-aw, chicken!
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