Posted on 03/17/2006 9:29:47 AM PST by stevio
Man has range in yard. Bushkill Twp. officials to revisit creating ordinance regulating recreational shooting.
The arrival of police officers at the Bushkill Township house was hardly a surprise. Nearly every time Alan Birtchet or his sons have fired guns in their backyard practice range since moving in a year ago, neighbors have called police, and Saturday was no exception.
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Pennsylvania. I know, that drives me crazy too, but I did put that in the keyword section. ;^)
This is exactly why we need to push for taking suppressors off of the NFA list. Why should we have to pay a $200 tax and undergo a lengthy background check for a practically disposable item, when they are actually REQUIRED in many places around the world?
We need to promote the Young Sportsmans Hearing Protection/Noise Pollution Reduction Act of 2006. It will remove all restrictions on suppressors, making them regularly available at your local gun shop. Young hunters and shooters will be able to take part in their favorite sport without the danger of permanently damaging their hearing (which can cost taxpayers money in the future, when Medicaid is buying their hearing aids), and neighbors won't be bothered by the loud gunshots that can carry for miles.
Do it for the children!
An acre is 43,560 square feet.
That is probably so. I have a friend who has a relative near there and they indicate that those fleeing New York City have brought their liberal paranoia to this place.
''When Bushkill Township was a rural place, this was never really a problem,'' township solicitor Gary Asteak said. ''We're experiencing the clash of two cultures.''
TRANSLATION:
The left-wing, liberal, wussy urbanite Demcraps who haven't the slightest idea about what real America is, have now spread even further out to infect once safe areas not impacted by their odious, un-American belief systems and cultural "norms".
If they don't like the sound of gunfire - go back to Manhattan or Philly, or wherever they came from and stay there. Clean their own neighborhoods up before they mess up other peoples'.
I hate liberals. I expecially hate urban liberals.
No more bullseyes. When the cops arrive, tell them you were shooting squirrels, which are always in season, I believe, in Pa.
If the cops have been there several times and found the same people and the same guns and the same legal situation, they should be warning the complaining neighbor about making nuisance calls to the police.
You forget, due to their liberal disarmament of law-abiding citizens, the streets of Manhattan and Philly are far from being devoid of gunfire.
You and me both brother.
Yeah. But they made that bed, let them go back and lie in it.
I left Jersey some time ago because I hated their restrictive gun laws and other idiot legislation. I know there are still people back there who hate them too, but they are in the minority and should leave Sodom and Gomorrah before it devours them.
But the urban liberals can all sit there and rot for all I care, and I sure as hell don't want any of them in my neighborhood - people like these complaining wussies.
They shut down my old range in Jersey several years ago.
as long as they are shooting into a good backstop then the point is moot. Fire away!
Descent, conservative type people are going to have to leave that area soon, let the those who kill their babies, mate with the wrong sex and suck the economic life out of America rot and be forgotten.
There is a squirrel season in PA.
However, coyotes are legal to hunt 365 days a year in PA. It is the only animal in the state of PA that you can legally shoot in the two week rifle season for deer in PA.
Coyotes are the only animal that can be shot in the state of PA on Sundays. You can't even shoot groundhogs on Sundays in PA.
The guy was shooting at coyotes...
"However, coyotes are legal to hunt 365 days a year in PA. It is the only animal in the state of PA that you can legally shoot in the two week rifle season for deer in PA".
I meant, of course, other than the deer. And you can't even hunt deer on Sundays in PA.
I only have 10 acres, and I DO have a range - with a 40 foot hill as the backstop (safety first and always).
That's roughly 210 feet by 210 feet square as the post said.
Heck there's more gunfire in Philly on a dialy basis than there is in my rural neighborhood in the peak of deer season
Bushkill has been around longer than the Bush's have been presidents.
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