Reply #70: The frustrating part...

[renie408]

was that my business partner DID call the County Sherriff. We run a boarding and training barn south of Charlotte, NC, and along with the concerns for our own safety, we have to consider how this makes our customers feel. A sherriff came out and was very polite and offered to go talk to the people, but essentially, out in the county, you can fire weapons on your property as much as you would like. Even if it is a high powered rifle. It seems to me that weapons like that should be reserved for a properly set up shooting range. My BIL has a gun like that and set up dirt bank to fire into and the first time around, the bullet went THROUGH the bank and pretty far on the other side. He had to reinforce his bank. He thought it was 'cool'. *gag*

I am not talking about outlawing guns. I am talking about making them 'harder' to acquire through intense background checks and waiting periods. I am also talking about enforcing some kind of recreational shooting law. I know that the Billy Bob's around here have been headin' off to them woods to fire their guns for years. But in our area growth has been so incredible that those woods normally back right up to a subdivision these days. And that is just not safe. There needs to be a law that takes into consideration developement and kids and requires guns not to be fired within a reasonable distance of a residential area or other dwelling.