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Abraham Lincoln used to walk a few hundred yards from the White House to test fire new weapon designs brought to him by eager war profiteers.

Now unless you are Vince Foster, you darn well better not fire a gun inside the confines of Washington,DC.

ESPECIALLY the parks!!!

Best regards to all,

1 posted on 12/19/2010 10:37:31 AM PST by Copernicus
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Don't anybody tell these idiots that rifles shoot a lot further than 600 feet.
2 posted on 12/19/2010 10:46:24 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (DEFCON I ALERT: The federal cancer has metastasized. All personnel report to their battle stations.)
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I went to Ft Marcy Park some years ago. The Ranger there didn’t even ask me why I was there- without any prompting, he led me to where Foster was found.


3 posted on 12/19/2010 10:48:55 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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Now unless you are Vince Foster, you darn well better not fire a gun inside the confines of Washington,DC.

You have proof ole Vince actually discharged a firearm in the park?

4 posted on 12/19/2010 10:58:17 AM PST by umgud
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This may also, and I reference the number of old busy-bodies who are dead set against anyone having fun, restrict paintball, airsoft and homemade catapults.

It is incredibly important that our young ones learn how to handle guns and this is a very bad law. Very Californian.


5 posted on 12/19/2010 11:10:59 AM PST by texmexis best (`)
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This law, as I read it, forbids self defense with a firearm.


6 posted on 12/19/2010 12:04:53 PM PST by B4Ranch (Do NOT remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
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In MA it’s 500 feet. Never been an issue for me but of course I don’t live in a Penny Lane neighborhood either.


7 posted on 12/19/2010 12:45:24 PM PST by Peter from Rutland
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This is astonishing. Johnston county is full of farmers and moonshiners. Who wrote this piece-of-crap ordinance?


9 posted on 12/19/2010 1:02:02 PM PST by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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Shooting an arrow is not discharging a projectile, in any normal sense of the word, although firing an air gun or a firearm would be.


11 posted on 12/19/2010 2:03:18 PM PST by 2harddrive
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This smells like someone with the ear of one or more commissioners has a problem with a neighbor shooting on adjoining property — and I would bet it’s over the *noise*. IF anyone is in a position to inquire locally, I’d check with the Sheriff’s office for noise and/or nuisance type complaints about gunfire and see if the same complainant appears with any frequency. That would be a clue.


14 posted on 12/19/2010 3:11:26 PM PST by jaydee770
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”Freedom is never lost all at once,” Edmund Burke.
Statists start off with laws that are ‘Reasonable’ and ‘Common-sense’just to get them on the books. Then with the nose under the tent wall, they just modify those laws slightly until another freedom is eviscerated.
15 posted on 12/20/2010 7:38:16 AM PST by Doc Prepper (Freedom is never lost all at once - Edmund Burke)
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