Happy New Year - Shooting tonight?

[Armed-N-Ready]

NO WAY!

I'd like to think most responsible gun owners have more common sense than that. I can believe it happened in Chicago and Detroit (refer to my last statement).

 

[Que]

Growing up in Detroit, and living in Chicago the celebration included shotgun salutes and mag dumping. I know it happens in the ghetto, but in a respectable gun community, do you participate in the celebration?

My father and his VA buddies participated in this kind of celebration in our paltry west side community in Chicago. I now understand how dangerous it was. Now that I live in a "respectable gun community" I do not. Hopefully, the police will make plenty of arrests tonight and the DA will help with rescinding any valid LTCHs.

 

[parson]

As a pastor I have participated in many New Years Eve services that typically have the people gather at the front for prayer as the new year begins. Several years ago, in the middle of such a time, there was a loud noise that got everyone's attention. The next day we discovered a hole in our roof and a bullet trapped between insulation and a steel beam directly above where folks had been standing the night before.

This bullet had penetrated a steel roof, and possibly would have penetrated a skull had it not been stopped by the beam!

Such irresponsible firearm usage is beyond stupid.

 

[nipprdog]

Just did my shooting for the day at Applied Ballistics.

 

[Judy]

Not since I grasp the law of gravity. Besides I will probably be asleep.

 

[Bill of Rights]

I only shoot at targets on a range or things that are trying to do me harm. Since the sky and moon are neither and the range will be closed, no, I have no plans of shooting tonight.

Blessings,
Bill

 

[RangeJunkie]

I plan on being downtown tonight so that's a no no for me

 

[ghitch75]

i'll be shootin' tonight into a dirt bank.......

 

[minx]

Found this. It almost needs its own thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3-FwC6sWWU

Failed celebration.

 

[LionWeight]

Absolutely not. This type of behavior is totally irresponsible, immature, reckless and STUPID. Love my guns, but NEVER discharge them unless I know exactly where the bullet is going. Anyone who does this is an idiot. Remember just last month the Amish girl who died from a gunshot to the head from a black powder hunter who cleared his gun by firing it in the air? Why in Gods name anyone would be so reckless is beyond me.

 

[Hookeye]

We used to load blackpowder rifles with just powder and maybe a cardboard wad.
Yrs ago, from a judges yard (acre in town).
Never anything with shot or bullet.

 

[E'villeGunner]

Every New Years, 12 gauge Rem. 1100 with #9 shot. Been doing it for 24 yrs.

 

[96firephoenix]

no. its irresponsible. we always have shot in our driveway on Jan 1 from some jerk 2 streets over with his shotgun...

 

[GunSlinger]

We (best friend, grandson, and son-in-law) punched a few holes in paper this evening at my backyard range. Shot an AR, M1 Carbine, Mosin, Rem 870, and a .380 just before sunset. The muzzle flash from the AR and especially the Mosin is very impressive!!

IMO only idiots and the mentally defective fire weapons into the air.

 

[JohnP82]

Nope, not going to do it. Just irresponsible in my opinion.

Although I got woke up by what sounded like the start of WWIII