Fun With Guns: Your Backyard Edition
Apparently the state of Florida neglected to make it against the law to set up a target practice range in your own backyard even if you live in a neighborhood.
I am certain that there is no law against wrapping your nakkid self in Saran Wrap and running up and down the street on a pogo stick yelling, “The Russians are coming!” but most people know that would not be a good idea so there are no reported cases of that — even in Florida.
Doug Varrieur has a home in Big Pine Key, Florida. This morning he has a “makeshift shooting area” in his backyard. In Texas that would mean a couple of recently emptied beer cans on a tree stump. I don’t know what it means in Florida except that you’re real likely to shoot your neighbors.
Along with fear of stray bullets, some of Varrieur’s neighbors are upset about the noise generated by the shooting. One woman circulated a petition in an effort to stop the shooting. But the Monroe County attorney said the county cannot put any noise ordinances in place to stop the residential shooting.
“And if they want to shoot a fully automatic weapon, and have a class 3 license, technically they would not be in violation of anything,” Ramsay told the Herald.
Let’s hear it for Florida, the new damn redneck heaven.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
When someone gets killed because of this, do you think the shooter will use the Stand Your Ground defense?
1Perhaps they didn’t consider that the neighbors can shoot back.
2Once again, my county has one helluva tough gun law about shooting anything in a high population area, even if there are wooded areas gracing the scene. You really get your a** kicked around here on that. Thanks for the heads up on this Florida “private shooting range”. Its just one more reason I will never go even as tourist to Florida! Yes, I am neck deep in Arctic cold right now, but damn! I’m alive and not ducking or dodging or worrying about some shoot ’em up idiot!
3It’s time for a “Don’t Want to Lie Under Your Ground” law. Something which could trump the insanity that passes for legality.
4Sadly there is no law against stupidity and self-entitlement.
5@LynnN: Getting the lege to pass a law against stupid or self-entitlement, not that hard. Getting timely enforcement on the other hand, very hard.
6So there’s no state law about “reckless” shooting within a certain distance of an occupied dwelling? The Florida sun must bake people’s brains.
7“New” redneck heaven? New, it’s not.
8There’s a shooting range near Austin where rounds have already hit houses, but when there was a hearing about it, guess who mostly showed up…yup, the shooters.
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