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Soldier’s Target Practice With Air Rifle at His Home Results in School Lockdowns, Arrest at Gunpoint
Guns Save Lives.net ^ | Feb 21, 2014 | Dan Cannon

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

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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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Local News; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: banglist; bbgun; guncontrol; guns; harriscounty; secondamendment; swat; texas
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To: Moonman62

Probably a powerful pellet gun, not a BB gun. But shooter was pretty stupid to not know the 4th rule of gun safety.


21 posted on 02/22/2014 7:00:22 AM PST by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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To: RandallFlagg

The article lacks facts. We don’t know what the property owner experienced.


22 posted on 02/22/2014 7:01:56 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

Agreed. But that’s standard when it comes to the enemedia and guns.


23 posted on 02/22/2014 7:03:42 AM PST by RandallFlagg ("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
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To: Pollster1

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


24 posted on 02/22/2014 7:07:12 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

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?


25 posted on 02/22/2014 7:09:38 AM PST by gaijin
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To: KeyLargo

AH! So Texas USED TO classify air rifles as firearms, but they removed it from the law.
Thanks for clearing that up.


26 posted on 02/22/2014 7:11:11 AM PST by RandallFlagg ("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
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To: central_va
So you demand everyone be right-handed?
Sounds very dictatorial,maybe even Democrat to me!
I,of course, shoot,write,and use a scope with the left because that is my stronger eye.AND I can drive nails with either right OR left hand-although I prefer to use a hammer!
I can shoot right-handed-just a lot less likely to hit the target! And write right-handed ,albeit slower. Flexibility can be useful. There.I hope your brain is spinning!!!
27 posted on 02/22/2014 7:13:40 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: Moonman62

“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.”


28 posted on 02/22/2014 7:14:50 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: hoosierham

When I teach lefties the basics a the golf swing, I have to drink afterwords.


29 posted on 02/22/2014 7:15:47 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: RandallFlagg
They had NO reason to do this. Unless Texas considers air rifles as, "Firearms."

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.

30 posted on 02/22/2014 7:16:48 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: KeyLargo

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.


31 posted on 02/22/2014 7:17:25 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: KeyLargo

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.


32 posted on 02/22/2014 7:17:25 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: gaijin

Finally this story is starting to make sense ;’)


33 posted on 02/22/2014 7:19:07 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: KeyLargo

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.


34 posted on 02/22/2014 7:20:13 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: hoosierham

Be careful or you will find yourself on your own list of security craving, freedom hating chickens too.


35 posted on 02/22/2014 7:21:02 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: hoosierham


;-)
36 posted on 02/22/2014 7:21:18 AM PST by RandallFlagg ("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
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To: beebuster2000

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.


37 posted on 02/22/2014 7:24:02 AM PST by txeagle
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To: RandallFlagg
They had NO reason to do this. Unless Texas considers air rifles as, "Firearms."

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.

38 posted on 02/22/2014 7:26:55 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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To: hoosierham

The guy for Homeland is beyond stupid.


39 posted on 02/22/2014 7:27:28 AM PST by Red Steel
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To: txeagle

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!


40 posted on 02/22/2014 7:27:29 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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