Nah. Have the all who are in control or in proximity to the balloon arrested and then haul it down and slice it up with a nice sharp box cutter. Rifle shots would represent a danger to anyone near where the shots land after passing through the balloon.
Oh, I don’t know. I would have loved to see that thing get shredded in a hail of gunfire from a Phalanx of armed, pissed off Patriots wearing MAGA hats.