You'll shoot your eye out
Master
- Jan 21, 2011
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As I suppose many people do, I have a bucket of sand as a makeshift bullet trap. It's to be used for various questionable firearm safety situations. My bucket is here beside my little station where I play with my guns, cleaning, polishing, lubricating, coonfingering, etc. This desk is in an interior room of my home, on a residential lot inside the I 465 loop.
Now suppose hypothetically, for whatever reason, maybe a function test or a negligent discharge or even just plain orneriness, I were to pop a bullet or two into my bucket.......... What legal liability or ramifications could I encounter? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in my home? Or am I still discharging a firearm inside city limits just like I was shooting off my porch? Would the possibility of the faint but unmistakable sound of gunfire be probable cause enough to warrant a forcible search? Or could I say to any questioning policemen "Hey! You kids get off my lawn!"?
And because someone is going to ask, yes I have rode my motorcycle in the house too. The wife made me scrub black rubber marks off the white kitchen floor tiles. That's how I got caught.
Now suppose hypothetically, for whatever reason, maybe a function test or a negligent discharge or even just plain orneriness, I were to pop a bullet or two into my bucket.......... What legal liability or ramifications could I encounter? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in my home? Or am I still discharging a firearm inside city limits just like I was shooting off my porch? Would the possibility of the faint but unmistakable sound of gunfire be probable cause enough to warrant a forcible search? Or could I say to any questioning policemen "Hey! You kids get off my lawn!"?
And because someone is going to ask, yes I have rode my motorcycle in the house too. The wife made me scrub black rubber marks off the white kitchen floor tiles. That's how I got caught.