Anyone here have their gun taken away by the Law?
I’ve been lucky, as the houses here are very close together, and before getting my TSS, I was shooting a C02 gun that was much louder, but had no complaints after many hundreds of rounds. But I always wondered what would happen if the cops did come around while I was shooting. From what I understand, living in LA city limits, it’s against the law to shoot a airgun ANYWHERE, even in your own backyard. So, technically, I guess they could take your gun if they wanted to, fine you, or just give you a warning, all of which I hope I never have to experience.
Wondering if anyone has any stories in this regard. I don’t mean years ago when you were a kid, but more like the last 5 years or so. I know this really isn’t much of an issue in certain parts of the country.
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This is how I met the neighbor AND how I found out he was a cop. I was shooting in the backyard with a small springer (gamo delta) and the neighbor suddenly gets up on the fence and says “STOP SHOOTING THAT D@MN BB GUN IN THE BACKYARD!” or something like that. So I go inside thinking phew glad this is over and I close the garage door and see this suv racing around the corner.
My mom asks whats the matter, I say nothing. Then, the doorbell rings. I get called to the front door and he goes off and says I was hiding behind the fence and shooting at him and shooting over the fence or some made up crap and then he starts saying he could take me to juvy right then and there, but he was going to let me off with a “warning”. 😡 👿
Hi,
i`ve got a little story about a sheridan bleu streak taken by the Dutch law.
It`s a story a friend of mine told me.
R. was shooting with one of his buddys in the backyard. R`s old man, kind of a religious fanatic didn`t want that shooting on a sunday in the backyard and told his son to take e hike.
They strolled to the backyard of the friends house. The sheridan was neatly stashed in a gunbag, the scope sticking out.
A copcar noticed them , took a U-turn and asked `m what they`re stashing in the bag. Everybody jumped in the policevan, one of the smartass cops took the Sheridan from the bag. Looked up en down, jerking around with the gun. Ofcourse he squeezed the trigger, the gun went of an the sucker got a sheridan slug in his foot. He was screaming like a pig that`s raped by an elephant. The two amigo`s got kicked out of the van, and the van speeded to the emergency of the nearby hospital.
About a week later R. called the policestation to ask when he could come and pick up his Sheridan. The telephone lady said she didn`t know what he was talking about. R. told the story of the cop shooting in his own foot. The cow on the phone told nothing like that had happened. R. never saw his Sheridan again.
Roel13
I lived in an apartment complex in Dumfries Va and my apt was in the back facing the woods Was on the 3rd floor in the back bedroom shooting out the window When the maintenace man in the unit below started yelling up at me and then came knockin. Lower class redneck that was helping the old man and lady runing the joint. Pissed me off so I called the police. In Virginia you must be 200ft from an accupied dwelling. But I’m not done yet…. The so called maintanence man was on parole and I knew he couldn’t be bonded. The police had been called on him many times by his girl friend. A cop there once gave me his history. So I called the Management company that owns the joint and they found out he was getting an apartment free to help out the couple running the place. He got booted and the couple got fired. They were worthless also. The moral of the story is “watch out who you’re messing with. It might come back and bite you in the @$$!
Alienhogg
Lama quote: “Why can’t more people be like that, and if they have a problem, talk to you about it, and not go straight to calling the police?”
Very good point Lama, I’m pretty sure my immediate neighbors would come to me first before doing that. I got to know Jim, my neighbor to my left, because of my shooting. Nice guy. I made sure he knew that I was responsible with what I was doing, showed him my target box, and let him know I’m not just shooting hary cary at anything and everything, with pellets flying everywhere. Turns out he used to shoot airguns alot himself a few years ago. I asked him if he wanted to hop the wall and try his hand at it, and although he didn’t, I could tell he was thinking about it.
You and your neighbor showed reason and respect for each other, which obviously is the way to go if at all possible. You can still shoot, and make your neighbor feel comfortable with things at the same time.
I have one lady that lives on the corner of my neighbors house that is great. One cold cold winter day a couple years ago, I was shooting at the end of the house. The ground was frozen, and it was bouncing off and landing in her yard. She has a couple little dogs. I went out to check the target, and she waved me over. She told me what was happening, said she didn’t mind my shooting, but if I could try and keep it from doing that it would be good. I told her I thought it was the frozen ground, so I’d stop shooting for the day. She said ok, I don’t shoot anymore when the ground is frozen, and noone has a problem.
Why can’t more people be like that, and if they have a problem, talk to you about it, and not go straight to calling the police?
As far as kids and bb guns, I think it all depends on the kid. I had a bb gun since I was 5. I have always been safe with them, and if I had shot a window out or something, I’d take responsibility for it. On that same note, my brother got a red ryder when he was 6 or 7, and he shot out my uncles back window. When asked why, the stories varied as far from there was a bird on the window, to he didn’t do it at all.
Some good stories here. No doubt the times have been a changin.’ I feel kinda goofy saying this, but I STILL watch the Andy Griffith show lol.
I guess there’s many places in LA that would be far worse to live if you wanted to shoot an airgun, I live in the extreme N/E corner of the San Fernando Valley, still kinda red-necky, pick-up trucks, Harley’s, people even ride horses nearby. Many people here own dogs, like big mean ones in many cases, and firearms I’m sure are common place in most households. So, I get the feeling that airguns just don’t freak the folk out around here as it might in many other areas of the city. Doesn’t mean I’ll become complacent though!
This guy was also just like Andy Griffith, couldnt ask for a better cop for a small town.
One night he walking his beat, which was through the city park and back to his office.
He was walking past the slide, and heard a “bang-bang”. Looked up and a little kid was pointing his daisy red-ryder at him, mouthing the shooting sounds.
The officer play-acted, pretended to draw his gun and “bang-bang” back at the kid, then the kid cocked his gun and shot the cop in the chest with a bb.
This kid was only about 6 years old. All the cop did was climb the slide and pull the kid and gun down the slide with him.
No charges filed, nobody held accountable for nonsense laws or any of the crap in the books these days. The kid even got to keep his bb gun, but his Dad bent it around a post and threw it away.
No the kid wasnt me, he was a friend of mine though. If I remember right, he grew up better with that experience under his belt.
WOW!!! 😯
I almost forgot about the town cop when I was a kid in Montana.
This guy was also just like Andy Griffith, couldnt ask for a better cop for a small town.
One night he walking his beat, which was through the city park and back to his office.
He was walking past the slide, and heard a “bang-bang”. Looked up and a little kid was pointing his daisy red-ryder at him, mouthing the shooting sounds.
The officer play-acted, pretended to draw his gun and “bang-bang” back at the kid, then the kid cocked his gun and shot the cop in the chest with a bb.
This kid was only about 6 years old. All the cop did was climb the slide and pull the kid and gun down the slide with him.
No charges filed, nobody held accountable for nonsense laws or any of the crap in the books these days. The kid even got to keep his bb gun, but his Dad bent it around a post and threw it away.
No the kid wasnt me, he was a friend of mine though. If I remember right, he grew up better with that experience under his belt.
I have not, but these people have.
CAUTION: May make you question what is happening in America right now…
Here is my story,
In 2001, I lived at a lake community, 14 lakes from 200 acres to 5 acres.
I was in the back yard shooting my IZH46 match pistol. I saw a police car
come down the street. ( i lived on a dead end ) I didnt see him pass the other side of the house, heard a car door close and he walked up to the fence to the backyard. It was the town marshal, I asked him what was up? He asked me if he could come back and talk to me. I said ok and he told me someone called and told them I was shooting a gun here. I said yes, I am shooting this 10 meter pistol. He asked me if it was an air pistol, I said yes and showed it to him. He told me that they were leagl, and just asked what I was shooting at. I showed him the trap I was shooting into and when he saw the target, he freaked out and said “man that thing shoots dont it!” I said “it’s a shooter”, you wanna try it? he jumped at it. He was probably on his 20th round when I asked him if the chick next door called the cops, He said she did and I told him she probably dont like the idea of you out here shooting with me. He laughed and said he would go talk to her. Never had a problem after that. That town marshal was an Andy Griffith kind of cop, If you werent causing trouble, he left you the hell alone. The way it aught to be. The town marshal showed up about a week later and had a brand new IZH46 and asked me if I would cut finger grooves and stipple the grips for him like I had done on mine.
That summer, he would stop by every couple of weeks and we would shoot there in my backyard.
I am sure it pissed off the chick next door, but she had issues anyway.
LOL Cyg, that is priceless.
Jolly good show old chap!
Heh-heh.
back 4 years in denmark the cops came by when me and a buddy was shooting…i had a condor with silencer, and he had an eliminator
cops came driving very fast down the little road…with screeching tires stopped outside my house…we had just wrapped up the rifle ready to hunting…all dressed in camo (what we where gonna do was not legal)
anyhow…they had gotten a report that two psychos has been running around the neighbourghood shooting airguns all over the place….told we had just been shooting so maybe they meant us…they asked to see the rifles…and where impressed…then they wanted to see my backstop…about 4 gamo targets with the 8-9-10 ring shot out and no misses or flyers…(only been shooting 30 yards) they where impressed…
i asked if they would like to try…and they both tried a few times….impressed it hit them…why the hell are you dressed in camo to shoot in the backyard….
told them we where gonna shoot some photos..my buddy in a danish military uniform(goverment property) and they started to ask him questions about it
in the end they said that a female had called, and she would get contacted for lying to the police…
they took off…and then drove around the neighbourghood for 10 minutes…we where keeping an eye on them…and decided we better go do the photos we had told them….5 minutes later back at my house cause i had forgotten pellets…we saw the cop car at the neighbourgs house…guess who the bitch was !
guess they had breen driving around just to check the area, incase other than us where shooting…and then decided to go pay the bitch a visit for lying …..rofl
she was sending the meanest eyes for about a week, she never could keep her eyes to her self….allways spying on our house…then she finally said to me she didnt like me shooting….she was afraid i was gonna hit someone (her kid) i kindly told her in calm voice..”listen you called the cops…they came they saw they didnt have a problem with it…so take you concerns and go showe them where the sun dont shine…” followed by an exchange of “!¤%”#%
they would after that, every time i was shooting go out in their driveway which is paralell to where i was shooting….to see if they could catch a strey pellet.
i got them good ….took a bunch of pictures clearly showing her staring into our house….and filed a report with the police….
then the husband dropped a box of nails on my property…my dog…back then a puppy had a thing with eating evrything and we found him munching on the big nails….trip the wet showed he had not ingested anything…but the bill close to 500 bucks…was sent to neighbourgs…from our petinsurance..no option for them but to pay lol
then i finally found the property corners marked by a piece of water pipe hammered into the ground….neighbourg had dug and sawed most of it off…but we found it about 2 feet down(should be right at the surface)…got it measured by a pro….turned out his garage was measly 3-4 inches onto my property (it had to be, otherwise he couldnt fit his car and get out of it) a quick complaint to the city….and he was told to take that crooket shit down…including those concrete blocks everything was sitting on….even turned out they had to move it 50cm (1½ feet) further in …which would mean it would be useless
and the 2 weeks later we moved to the states….lol
vandeta vandeta for me pappa
had they been nice i would never done anything about their garage….or the doggy’s bill….
I dont know whats worse.
Not being able to shoot next to your neighbors, or not having any choice but to use a pump.
I live in the boonies, nearest neighbors shoot centerfires all the time in the summer. People try to hunt on my 5 acres but I tell em to bug off.
The only reason I muffled my Condor is because of my dogs. When I went shooting with my father-in-law, he was shocked at the report of the Condor without the shroud. Its almost as loud as my 22magnum rimfire.
The only choice I might have for HPA is the fire department, but the fire chief is a by-the-book dickhead. Nearest dive shop is Portland Oregon, 125 miles downriver. With current price of gasoline, thats about $45 per trip.
I guess its a tradeoff I can live with, once I get the damn pump fixed. Right now the SOB wont intake air anymore with a bottle attached, but pumps fine before pressure builds up. Aggravating.
I’m probably about one of the luckiest SOB’s around. Back in the mid 80’s, my older brother was in an Army engerneering batallion out of Ft. Hood. One day they were tasked to get rid of some C-4. He got rid of it all right. Blew most of it up like they were susposed to but decided to keep a 1lb. brick for himself and bring it home with some blasting caps. I came home from school one day to find him sitting in the livingroom chair with a set of wires running from the coffee table out the back sliding glass door. Seems he had taken a large marble size ball of C-4 and stuck it on the end of a blasting cap. He then stuck the blasting cap in a small brown paper bag filled with #8 buckshot. He twisted the whole thing up and set it next to the birdbath. He had thrown a bunch of birdseed out and was waiting for a squirrel. Well, wouldn’t you know it… 10 minutes later, a tree rat came down for his last meal. My brother grabs the 6v lantern battery and touches the wires to it. BOOOOM!!! The squirrel was less than 6 inches from the C-4 and when it went off, it literally blew him over the 6 foot wooden fence into the neighbors yard. Thank god most of the neighbors were at work or the po-po would have surely been knocking down our door and I would be telling you this story with my cellmate Bubba breathing down my neck. 😆
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They seriously get carried away some times. I was in florida, and we go the cops called on us for throwing a water bottle into the pool. ❓ ❗ wtf. Then they yelled at me and my friend for 5 minutes, turned to me and said “Were you throwing things” I said “no” (because I didnt). That set them off. YOUR LYING TO US KID. WE KNOW YOU THREW SOMETHING!!! The cops around here are pretty lenient though. Whether its guns, trespassing, or (w/e).