I **** the mattress in the spare bedroom erroneously. Someday my wife is giing to find that little .380 hole and confiscate my guns. I can promise after the ringing in my ear stopped, i decided a bucket of ssnd wss better than the mattress.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.
My dad was letting the hammer down on his Commander one night around 0300 after his shift sometime in the mid 1970's. Back then you could carry personal weapons if you qualified. It was summer and his hand was sweaty, so you can guess what happened. The slug went down in the corner of an end table, burying itself in the leg a few inches down.
Fast forward to a couple of years ago, we have the end table in our basement. He made a matching pair along with a coffee table and we have our basement family room/bar setup in a retro '70's style (on the bar I have this cool ceramic ash tray with a woman's hand poking up, fingers splayed to hold a cigarette). Anyway, my daughter was 17 and had some friends over, she held up the end table and told her friends "my last boyfriend had to use this as a shield from my dad" with a sad face.
Apple didn't fall far from the tree there... she is a smart aleck through and through. I was quite proud of my little girl that night
My ex-father-in-law found that out when he discharged a Tec 9 from his porch and got arrested in the small town of Mascoutah. But that was in the communist state of IL where anything to do with firearms seems to be illegal.Again, is this a state statute or what? There's no state statute regulating that that I'm familiar with. Most places have an ordinance against it, my city does not.
Sec. 451-2. - Firearms generally.
(a) Within the police special service district, it shall be unlawful for any person to fire off, shoot at another person or otherwise use any dangerous weapon for any purpose other than in defense of his life or the life of another person, or the protection of his property or property entrusted to him by another person, or for practice at a range under the supervision and operation of a governmental entity, or without the prior written approval of the department of public safety.
(b) This section shall not apply to the United States Army, Navy or other armed forces, the National Guard, or to any duly constituted and authorized law enforcement and peace officer of any governmental unit, or to manufacturers and to repair facilities for testing purposes within a private range.
(Code 1975, § 20-187)
18" of red oak always worked for me with .22LR and .223-5.56 but it is not sufficient for 147gr 300 blk which is a surprisingly good log splitter.
A bucket of sand sounds like a mess waiting to happen.
Well, THAT video will get stricken. Eventually.
Oh, I’m sure. I should have shot it with a hijab and a gay pride t shirt and then they couldn’t take it down!
I can state with authority that a 5 gallon bucket of play sand will stop a .308,...
You shouldn't own any phones.You shouldn't own any firearms.
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You shouldn't own any firearms.
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Used to shoot .22 Aguila Colibri's out of a Single Six into a bullet trap all the time in the basement of my first home.
You shouldn't own any phones.
How do you figure?