Posted on 07/31/2011 8:24:30 PM PDT by marktwain
My parents live in the middle of ten acres of woods in a small community in central Alabama [not shown]. Since they moved there, houses have sprung up all around them as people who want to “live in the country” have migrated there from nearby cities. A few years back a developer put a “manufactured housing developemnt” (a.k.a., a trailer park) in a field across the road from them. Enter my brother and his collection of firearms . . .
For years he’s been target shooting whenever he’s visited the ‘rents. There’s a natural berm on the backside of the property where he sets up cardboard targets, cans, or what-have-you to squeeze off a few (hundred) rounds. No one’s seemed to care about this until one fine day this last spring.
On the day in question, he was out there with my father getting in some target practice. A sheriff’s car pulled and a deputy got out. My brother put down the rifle he was shooting and they met him halfway to see what’s going on.
The deputy explained that “someone” had called to report they’d heard gunshots and asked them to investigate “before someone gets killed.” He wanted to know what was going on. They took the officer back to show him where they were shooting and told him that they’d been doing this for years.
So what’s the officer to do? He was there investigating a “shots fired” compaint. He had to confiscate the weapons and arrest them because they were wrecklessly endangering the neighbors’ lives, didn’t he? He had to cite them for disturbing the peace, right?
Wrong on all counts. He said they were doing nothing wrong. He then made comments about how dumb it is for people to move to the country then expect things to be like they are in the city. He told them they had a right to do what they wanted on their own property as long as it wasn’t illegal – and that safely shooting a gun at a target certainly was not illegal. He wished them a good day and left.
Let’s hear it for sane enforcement of the Second Amendment!
We dare defend our rights. War Eagle!
Wonder if he went over and reminded the complainer that this is (still) the USA.
For now. Barack's on it.
Most are the good kind, especially in rural America like you said, but they don’t make the news. It’s the idiots that we usually hear about.
Better would be to dismiss the anguished call(s) from the pussified with "no response required."
"Gunshots in the country? What are you going to call us about next, dirt on the ground?"
My brother in law & son in law were up in the mountains target practicing when a female game warden drove up. My son in law wanted her to feel comfortable so he set his pistol on the tailgate or his truck and stepped away.
She wrote him up for having a loaded handgun in a vehicle.
She damn lucky she made it off the mountain.
She wants to do her part for The Legal Industry. That ticket is a revenue producer.
The Legal Industry is composed of LEOs, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, various clerks in the court house plus the city, county or state that all get a cut of of the take.
I had a similar interaction near Madison, of all places. ...but we were only shooting BB guns at the time.
The officer did remind us that Dane County people are a bunch of anti-gun nutters and suggested we find someplace more friendly to shooting since she would have to come out any time a neighbor decided to call.
Few months after we got settled in, heard a chainsaw one day, Knew what Daniel Boone felt upon hearing the sound of an unknown axe clearing ground. Within a year we had four families move into the valley.
The guy who sold to us said he had the properties on the market for years and nothing had sold until we moved in. He wanted to thank us for helping start the sales. I know it was wrong, but felt like using an ax on him for saying it.
http://www.infowars.com/sheriffs-deputies-disdain-for-constitution-captured-by-their-own-recorded-comments/
Most ammo is supersonic, at about 1,126 FPS.
Now that was a good cop. Only way it could have gotten better is if the cop took a few shots.
>Most ammo is supersonic, at about 1,126 FPS.
Most, yes; though I do believe that [most] .45 ACP is the exception here...
Now he knows why the term “dickless tracy” is applied to LEO’s with no Y chromosome.
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