Was it suppressed? Puhoi used to be a cool place. Has it turned into Lifestyle lawns now? I'm glad I moved south when I did.
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We had a supressed 223, a supressed 308 and an un-supressed 308. Can get out to about 200m on the property, and the neighbours are fine with it. The man who took the time to come walking up the road looking for the noise was the one not impressed. It was also mentioned on the local Facebook page. Its close to town/church (it was a sunday morning) so I kinda understand. I did wonder if we were actually breaking the law?
Ummm, is there a law against being louder than church bells? :wtfsmilie:
Maybe...
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1 - discharges a firearm? Yes.
2 - in or near a dwellinghouse; or a public place? Yes
3 - so as to endanger property or to endanger, annoy, or frighten any person? Yes. You annoyed someone.
4 - without reasonable cause? Maybe. Define 'reasonable cause'. What is reasonable to you, or the shooting community may not be reasonable to the person you annoyed, nor the judge.
'near' is deliberately undefined as well. And nowhere does it say that the person you've annoyed/frightened/endangered needs to be the owner/occupier of whichever dwelling you were 'near' when such offence was caused.
It'd be a long shot, but if you were 'near' your own house, and a passer-by walked past (on the road - a public place) and was frightened, then the above conditions have been met. It will all boil down to how close you were, and if you had reasonable cause to be discharging the firearm.
Plenty of threads on here about people having run-ins with crazy/unreasonable/anti-gun neighbours while shooting on their own property. Cops get called, guns get confiscated in a guilty-until-proven-innocent kind of way.
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Another situation a few years ago. Wayyy out the back of coatsville, shooting a 22 and a shotgun on friends farmland. Armed police arrive after being called by neighbours. Sight a FAL and let us go on our way, no worries - turned out the closest neighbour was banned from owning Firearms.