150 yards of a dwelling on private property? A little excessive.
That yard law is for hunting. Not target shooting.
Depends on the county I guess. St. Mary's simply says discharge of a firearm within 150 yards of a building that can be used as a dwelling. It doesn't say we can target shoot but not hunt. It just says "discharge".
It doesn't matter if it is hunting or target shooting. The topic of this thread is "celebratory gunfire".
Email I also received
McCarthy's shooting ban scheme would make it illegal in Cecil County to fire or discharge any firearm:
On the property of another person without written permission of the land owner or tenant;
In the direction of any residential dwelling; or school;
On public property without advance written permission
Wherein the projectile or projectiles traverse the property of another so as to endanger life, limb or property Within 150 yards of any residential dwelling or school without written permission of the property owner
The topic is celebratory gunfire, but, he is adding a lot of other things into it.
I agree completely. I just didn't want to get accused of "being rude"as I apparently am prone to do.WTF is your problem with this? Fuc^tards shooting in the air killed a little girl. This does nothing to ban defending yourself or hunting or even shooting off your own porch if you can do it safely. It seeks to ban endangering your neighbors or random strangers miles away. Gee if you have a neighbor 50yds behind your house you can't throw out a few sandbags and shoot your 30-06. You can't tresspass and shoot on somebody elses property. Your projectiles have to stay on your property. It even allows your bullets to leave your property if you can guarantee they won't hurt anyone. You can't just wander onto public property and spray bullets willy nilly. You have to clear it with authorities to verify nobody else is using the area. If you have neighbors within 150yds you need their consent because they are within the range of ricochets and potentially damgerous sound levels.
These are the same rules in place where I live and if you have seen the videos from my house we get downright extreme while maintaining safe lanes of fire and not endangering half the county.
Where this bothers me is...
I have a 100' high hill behind my home. It is probably 100 yards wide. Use to be a gravel pit. Neighbors home is 100 yards to the left of my home. I target shoot into the hill behind my home. Sheriffs office and state police say it is safe and does not put anyone in danger. This would effect me.
Again, I stated before, I don't agree with people doing celebratory gunfire. Especially after that little girl was killed.
Then it sounds like all you need to do is get your neighbor's OK to shoot at the hill (within reasonable hours) and you are GTG. Now if there is a school on the other side of the hill and your targets are near the top, that's a different story. But you started this with a link to an article about yahoos using their firearms in lieu of fireworks to celebrate.