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Air Gun Home Forum Index » General Air Gun Questions and Topics » Air Guns in your yard Goto page 1, 2  Next    View previous topic :: View next topic  Air Guns in your yard   Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:37 pm SureShot_ca Member Joined: 23 Oct 2011 Posts: 43 Location: N.B. Canada I have a spot in my backyard behind my garage that I use for target practice. On my way out to my "pistol range" I keep the air gun concealed. I don't want the neighbors to get frantic. My Sig Sauer looks pretty realistic. Do you fellows have problems using your air guns in your yards? _________________ Benjamin NP Trail (0.22) SIG Sauer X-Five Open (0.177) Marksman 1792 (0.177) Crosman 3576 (0.177) Crosman 1377 (0.177) Elite II (0.177)   Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:48 pm Jr. Squirreler Veteran Member Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 419 Location: New York I live in the "Hardwoods," so no one really cares around me. However, in Town there are people that have actually gotten the Cops called on them for their Air Rifles/Pistols.   Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:16 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA It's illegal in my town to discharge a BB or pellet gun within the city limits, so I don't shoot outside in my yard. Those rabbits messing up my wife's garden must have been hit by a stone flung by a car tire. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:31 am SureShot_ca Member Joined: 23 Oct 2011 Posts: 43 Location: N.B. Canada Slavia wrote: It's illegal in my town to discharge a BB or pellet gun within the city limits, so I don't shoot outside in my yard. Those rabbits messing up my wife's garden must have been hit by a stone flung by a car tire. That's your story and you're sticking to it right? LOL Y'know it never occurred to me that I'm not allowed to discharge an airgun within my town limits. I should ask somebody before I get a visit from "the authorities" and have them confiscate my airguns. _________________ Benjamin NP Trail (0.22) SIG Sauer X-Five Open (0.177) Marksman 1792 (0.177) Crosman 3576 (0.177) Crosman 1377 (0.177) Elite II (0.177)   Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:44 pm Nightshade Member Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 14 Slavia wrote: It's illegal in my town to discharge a BB or pellet gun within the city limits, so I don't shoot outside in my yard. (snip) Yes, draconian laws like this were caused by kids careless use of air guns back when every kid had at least a BB gun. As an example about 15>20 years ago every plate glass window in our business district was shot with one or more pellets causing thousands of dollars in glass damage. City council then banned all air guns. They caught the kids that did it and their parents paid plenty but the law is now on the books.........forever.   Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:18 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA A few years ago I got the law changed to allow the use of airguns for "educational or training purposes, with city council permission." This let us use the 4H building at the fairgrounds. I suppose (hypothetically) if I were to contemplate a basement 10m range I would need to apply for permission. I would hope that my tax dollars aren't being used to fund a secret BB S.W.A.T. team that goes out at night, crawling in the dirt to peer into people's basement windows in search of possible violations. But you never know. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:19 pm HotFudge Member Joined: 23 Oct 2011 Posts: 13 My neighborhood is pretty cool with it, and there are no laws against it. As long as I don't point or shoot towards one of there houses (which I never would anyway), they're fine.   Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:07 pm Nightshade Member Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 14 HotFudge wrote: My neighborhood is pretty cool with it, and there are no laws against it. As long as I don't point or shoot towards one of there houses (which I never would anyway), they're fine. THIS is the way it should be. You can do any peaceful activity on your property that you want.   Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:21 pm RVTMaverick Member Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 59 Location: VA. IF I may ask: What City and State are you in that you can't even shoot in your own yard?! We are aloud to here in Suffolk, Va., YOU just have to make sure NO Pellets\bbs go out of your yard. Also for the comment about being in the books forever.... Don't think like that because just this Year BOTH Chesapeak and Portsmouth just changed their laws about this, so PEPS can once again shoot in their own yards!   Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:51 pm Nightshade Member Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 14 RVTMaverick wrote: IF I may ask: What City and State are you in that you can't even shoot in your own yard?! We are aloud to here in Suffolk, Va., YOU just have to make sure NO Pellets\bbs go out of your yard. Also for the comment about being in the books forever.... Don't think like that because just this Year BOTH Chesapeak and Portsmouth just changed their laws about this, so PEPS can once again shoot in their own yards! I live in a small midwestern rural town where the city code say......."It is illegal to discharge any firearm or air gun within city limits. " By use of the word "discharge" it is illegal to even have a range indoors!!!!!   Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:42 pm SureShot_ca Member Joined: 23 Oct 2011 Posts: 43 Location: N.B. Canada I asked the people at my local town hall and they said that they didn't have any by laws at all about discharging any type of firearm (airguns included I assume) within town limits but they did ask me to check with the RCMP. However after a quick survey of my yard I realize it's not big enough to do shooting at any decent distance. Time for a drive out to the local rifle/pistol range. _________________ Benjamin NP Trail (0.22) SIG Sauer X-Five Open (0.177) Marksman 1792 (0.177) Crosman 3576 (0.177) Crosman 1377 (0.177) Elite II (0.177)   Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:24 pm cactusrat Member Joined: 20 Dec 2010 Posts: 64 Location: South Texas I got to be careful when I shoot my airguns in the yard. I don’t want to bother the neighbors while they are blasting away with their shotguns, rifles and pistols. Why heck, while I was writing this post, someone fired off a shotgun and it’s almost 10 pm. Must have been a skunk. So bottom line is nobody cares if I shoot my toy bb guns. _________________ Glenn South Texas   Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:26 am SureShot_ca Member Joined: 23 Oct 2011 Posts: 43 Location: N.B. Canada cactusrat wrote: I got to be careful when I shoot my airguns in the yard. I don’t want to bother the neighbors while they are blasting away with their shotguns, rifles and pistols. Why heck, while I was writing this post, someone fired off a shotgun and it’s almost 10 pm. Must have been a skunk. So bottom line is nobody cares if I shoot my toy bb guns. Well, you do live in Texas. Need I say more? _________________ Benjamin NP Trail (0.22) SIG Sauer X-Five Open (0.177) Marksman 1792 (0.177) Crosman 3576 (0.177) Crosman 1377 (0.177) Elite II (0.177)   Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 11:26 am BBgunNoob Veteran Member Joined: 18 Dec 2008 Posts: 327 Location: Pa hmmm i have 30 acres to the left of me is a guy with 20 acres used just for hunting to the right is 80 acres that my brother in-law's brother owns behind me is my sister with 130 acres and across the street there's 300 acres where a woman just went into a nursing home so the lands sitting.... i have lots of room for fun   Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 11:14 pm Ltpro New Member Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 8 Thank God I own a few acres and I have about 20K acres behind me so I shoot my airgun rifle , and powder rifles with no issues .Also both guys to the left and right of me hunt and sometimes shoot as well,I lucked out on that one. _________________ Nitrogen Powered TF87 Air Guns in your yard     Air Gun Home Forum Index » General Air Gun Questions and Topics You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum All times are GMT - 5 Hours   Page 1 of 2   Goto page 1, 2  Next All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First  Select a forum Main Forums----------------AirGunHome Q&AGeneral Air Gun Questions and TopicsPicture GalleryTarget Shooting: Casual, Fun and CompetitionHunting, Pest Control, Varminting People/Events/Airgun Issue Discussion----------------Introduce YourselfThe BS TopicClubs/Events/Regional/Political Airgun Issues Maintenance, Modification and Reviews----------------RiflesPistolsAntique, Collector and Novelty AirgunsBB GunsPellets/AmmoOpticsAccessoriesAirgun Smithing Buy, Sell or Trade Forums----------------For SaleWant to Buy   Note: If you are seeing "Please enter your username and password to log in." 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