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``It is unlawful to discharge a firearm within five hundred feet from a dwelling house, farm building or farm structure actually occupied or used, school building, school playground, or occupied factory or church.``

``It is unlawful to willfully discharge any firearm either in a public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby.``

``Generally, it is unlawful for anyone under the age of 16 to possess any firearm; however, a rifle or shotgun may be possessed by a person between 12 and 16 who is engaged in target shooting on a range supervised by a military officer, certified instructor, or a parent, guardian or a person over the age of eighteen designated in writing by such parent or guardian provided the adult has a hunter safety certificate.``

http://www.nyfirearms.com/blog/nys-gun-laws/

[In 1957 you could buy a rifle when you were 14. So this is another restriction from what was practised. My mother, who is 93, was plinking rats behind the local grocery store when she was 12. She got paid a nickel per rat.

My cousin was firing his father`s .22 English sniper rifle when he was 8 years old plinking rats at the town dump with his father. Thus you can see the infringements upon the Second Amendment as it was practiced for 230 years here and has only changed since 1970(?). I do not know the dates of these laws.]

Our farm is 40 acres. We used to shoot apples, cans, offa logs etc for target practice here since 1950`s. But now [same farm] if you shoot a .22 on the same farm, if it is heard by someone who doesn`t like guns, they will report you to the NY State Troopers, coz the local police already know and they had guns doing this when they were kids, so they don`t enforce this illegal unconstitutional law at all. So we go in the woods at night and target practice to prevent such harrassment except during hunting season...