MOCO,Can we pop off bb guns in the backyard?

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  • Occam

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    Feb 24, 2018
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    Pro Tip: go with wrist rockets and clay ammo balls. Builds muscles along with hand eye coordination and scratching the destructo urge.
     

    Alan3413

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    Mar 4, 2013
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    Pro Tip: go with wrist rockets and clay ammo balls. Builds muscles along with hand eye coordination and scratching the destructo urge.

    Elastic stretchey thingies that launch projectiles also banned.
     

    MaxVO2

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    Elastic stretchey thingies that launch projectiles also banned.

    *****This was my understanding as well. I used to use wrist rockets all of the time when I lived in Langley Park back in the day as it was cheaper than a BB gun, and didn't attract so much attention/could be hidden until we got into the woods, etc..

    Wrist rockets are great exercise for the forearms and fingers, etc.. and can certainly help improve hand/eye coordination, as well as learning the fundamentals of aiming, windage, etc..

    It's a shame MoCo is so strict, but that's what nanny government does for you.

    Dunno where in MoCo the OP lives but a cheapie starter bow set with like 15-20 lbs pull and some arrows are a lot of fun for a kid, and Lake Needwood has a nice range that is free to the public and is rarely full. I bought two very basic plastic bows and and they came with arrows and targets for less than $60 at Dicks Sporting Goods at the Rio Shopping Center in Gaithersburg and took a neighbors kids there to get them off the Playstation for awhile and they had a great time, got outdoors, and learned a cool new skill.

    But yea, BB guns in the backyard shouldn't be a big deal but in MoCo all it takes is for a neighbor or Karen type with a Moms Demand Action membership to flip out, call the cops, and accuse you of trying to train a youth militia to storm the capital or something..

    Some people are really crazy about anything that could be perceived as a weapon up to and including a bb gun, wrist rocket, pop tart shaped like a gun, or even a starter .50BMG Barrett with target loads and mildly depleted Uranium rounds shot into some old phone books in the next county, etc..

    It's crazy here in MoCo, that's for sure.
     

    Occam

    Not Even ONE Indictment
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    Feb 24, 2018
    20,239
    Montgomery County
    Elastic stretchey thingies that launch projectiles also banned.

    I found that Chevy Chase explicitly bans slingshots, but I haven’t seen that for the wider county in anything I’ve read. But it’s MD and MoCo so it could be buried beyond easy finding.
     

    mac1_131

    MSI Executive Member
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    Jan 31, 2009
    3,280
    Just want to take down some beer cans with some bad ass little ADHD's so they can get off an ipad for an hour.
    If you are outside of the urban area and have the required distances, yes. We shoot real guns out here. If you are inside the urban area, you are out of luck.
     

    Johnconlee

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    Mar 8, 2019
    1,149
    Mechanicsville
    Do it, let them lock you up for shooting a red ryder into a soup can in the backyard. The fact that this is even seen as a serious question is ridiculous. Where are the we will not comply people ? If you're really afraid of karen you could always shoot inside the house. 4H kids do 10 meter air rifle almost exclusively inside, we use homemade pellet traps and a backstop curtain for misses.
     

    Bob A

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    Nov 11, 2009
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    Thank God for the Nanny State!

    I'm 74 yrs old, and I can count on the fingers of no hands all the kids I've known who lost an eye shooting BB guns.

    The David vs Goliath sling is not on the banned list in MoCo, far as I know. However, it's more challenging to master, and can be lethal, which is obviously a plus. Theey go back well into the pre-Christian eras, a coule thousand years BC.

    Nice link on the weapon:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sling_(weapon)
     

    FrankOceanXray

    Ultimate Member
    Oct 29, 2008
    12,028
    Do it, let them lock you up for shooting a red ryder into a soup can in the backyard. The fact that this is even seen as a serious question is ridiculous. Where are the we will not comply people ? If you're really afraid of karen you could always shoot inside the house. 4H kids do 10 meter air rifle almost exclusively inside, we use homemade pellet traps and a backstop curtain for misses.

    Yup.
     

    outrider58

    Eats Bacon Raw
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    Jul 29, 2014
    49,815
    I once walked up on two Rooskies shooting pellet pistols on the Lake Needwood archery range. They said "...but sign says range...". LOL
     

    teratos

    My hair is amazing
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    Jan 22, 2009
    59,775
    Bel Air
    The short answer is no the long answer is I’ve been doing just that for 30 years

    Yeah, but when the MoCo SWAT team comes out, you flash your badge and they let your dog live.

    Only the police and military can get away with shooting BB guns in their back yard in MoCo.
     

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