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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:13:33 PM EDT
[Last Edit: HDLS]
[#1]
Sometimes. I live in the 3rd largest city in San Diego County.
1. The police range is probably about 1 mile away. If I'm outside or the windows open sometimes you can faintly hear them shooting at times. 2. The edge of Camp Pendleton is about 1.5 miles away. Conditions have to be just right to hear gunfire from there. 3. It's been a couple decades since I've heard anything that I thought was gunshots from other than those 2 places. I'm sure there are, but I haven't heard them. There was a car jacking shooting a few years ago about 3/4 mile away on halloween but I was already inside and didn't hear it. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:14:23 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Need4Guns]
[#2]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RealityCheck0311: Are they gun people that recognize a gun shot? A lot of noises in cities can sound like gun shots. I've had friends over that are non-gun people and they assume everything is a gun shot. From a car backfiring, college kids lighting firecrackers, someone slamming a dumpster lid, etc.. Just the other day I walking my dogs and a friend was convinced someone nearby had a machine gun. I then explained what an anti-lag system was on a turbo car. 30 seconds later a lowered WRX drives by popping away. Lol, yeah they're "gun people" and live in Richmond proper, whatever you want to call that. It's not the hood but the hoods not far. Gunshots are a regular thing. Having driven through where they live I can believe it. Most major cities are garbage unless you're in the gated part. Even then I would bet you can still hear shots. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:16:08 PM EDT
[#3]
Independence Day, New Years Eve, and other odd occasions, sure. Dallas suburbs know how to Fiesta!
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:17:06 PM EDT
[#4]
Originally Posted By Need4Guns: Whether you're rural (like me) or city/suburbs, do you hear shots from your home? |
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LA, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:17:58 PM EDT
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I’m suburbs, we are just outside city limits and live on 3acre lots. Neighbor catty corner from me likes to shoot… he has a 1-2ft tall burm and my other neighbors house as a backstop. Dudes stupid as fuck to shoot around here, but it’s technically legal until he misses that burm and hits a neighbor or their property.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:18:11 PM EDT
[#6]
Almost nightly and multiple times as well. Surrounded by the hood.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:18:14 PM EDT
[#7]
Yes. Sometimes the sound of freedom can be heard from the near by fort. Sometimes I guess it is hood rats
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:18:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bob6012: I hear artillery regularly. Does that count? Fort Pickett is 40ish miles from me and when they do artillery drills my windows rattle. I can't imagine living within 10 miles of that base. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:20:02 PM EDT
[#9]
I don’t live in the sticks, but there are four gun ranges within 1/2 mile of my house.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:20:14 PM EDT
[#10]
I live across the road from Hurlburt Field, AFSOC. I hear everything from 9mm to 105mm. Love those AC130s.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:20:53 PM EDT
[Last Edit: JaredGrey]
[#11]
I live…not that far from a part of this city where I don’t walk after 10pm.
I have occasionally heard gunfire at night. There were a couple of nights during 2020 when my car got parked sideways across the alley along my house, and the sofa was moved against the front door. Just in case. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:21:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By -MainDisconnect-: Yes, our private range is less than one mile away. 0900-dark. Very similar here, 180+ acre fish & game club less than a mile away. The gate to the club property is 1/4 mile from my driveway, and their ranges start another 1/2 mile away. I hear gunshots frequently but not daily. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:23:20 PM EDT
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There's a canned hunting preserve kind of near me, so sometimes. And sometimes I hear what might be guns or fireworks. When it is really weird timed pops I tend to perk up. You know, when it doesn't sound like a string of firecrackers or a cake-type firework.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:24:35 PM EDT
[#14]
Yes, from the gun range on the other side of the village
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:25:05 PM EDT
[#15]
Yes, but I live next to the public school system track. Heard quite a bit of gunfire from the HS track meet yesterday.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:25:57 PM EDT
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I hear automatic gunfire almost daily out here from multiple directions.
This is Idaho where almost everyone shoots. |
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WI, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:26:59 PM EDT
[#17]
I live in the thick of the burbs, but a law enforcement range is about 3 miles west of me. If the wind and humidity is right I can hear rifle fire.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:27:39 PM EDT
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IA, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:27:41 PM EDT
[#19]
No the constant ringing blocks out that tone
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:29:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Need4Guns: Lol, yeah they're "gun people" and live in Richmond proper, whatever you want to call that. It's not the hood but the hoods not far. Gunshots are a regular thing. Having driven through where they live I can believe it. Most major cities are garbage unless you're in the gated part. Even then I would be you can still hear shots. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Need4Guns: Originally Posted By RealityCheck0311: Are they gun people that recognize a gun shot? A lot of noises in cities can sound like gun shots. I've had friends over that are non-gun people and they assume everything is a gun shot. From a car backfiring, college kids lighting firecrackers, someone slamming a dumpster lid, etc.. Just the other day I walking my dogs and a friend was convinced someone nearby had a machine gun. I then explained what an anti-lag system was on a turbo car. 30 seconds later a lowered WRX drives by popping away. Lol, yeah they're "gun people" and live in Richmond proper, whatever you want to call that. It's not the hood but the hoods not far. Gunshots are a regular thing. Having driven through where they live I can believe it. Most major cities are garbage unless you're in the gated part. Even then I would be you can still hear shots. You think everyone in every part of a large (major) city can hear gunshots in every other part of the same large (major) city? That's ratarded. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:56:21 PM EDT
[#21]
Multiple times a day/night when I lived in Aurora, but not now. There is a bagged salad plant nearby that pops high pressure reliefs every few days which causes a lot of OMG posting on next door.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:56:58 PM EDT
[#22]
Nope.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:05:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HDLS: You think everyone in every part of a large (major) city can hear gunshots in every other part of the same large (major) city? That's ratarded. Well I can only speak for Richmond but I can imagine at least a dozen other major cities off the top of my head that would be the same. Normally most folks would agree. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:06:53 PM EDT
[#24]
Out in the country.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:09:28 PM EDT
[#25]
Yes. There are three neighbors within a few hundred yards, and we all shoot. There's also a public range, about a 1mi drive away.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:12:50 PM EDT
[#26]
There are at least three ranges in this pic; one of them is mine.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:15:05 PM EDT
[#27]
Pretty much every day and I live within the city limits of a small city in southern Middle Tennessee. Of course, it's the only city in TN which owns its own range open to the public and it's literally on the other side of a hill from my apartment complex. The sound of freedom is glorious.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:21:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Merlin: There are at least three ranges in this pic; one of them is mine. https://i.imgur.com/LfOaVS4.jpg |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:26:49 PM EDT
[#29]
I live in a decent neighborhood. Heard gunfire last night right down the street but who knows what they were doing. I don’t care. Growing up shooting in my back yard it’s just another day.
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IL, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:31:13 PM EDT
[#30]
LOL, not as much as of late since the farmer next door rented out the place, but YEAH, he clearly shot all the time in the barn.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:32:21 PM EDT
[#31]
Nope. Upscale area. Any gunshots from the Miami locusts leaving the beach would be drowned out by the traffic on 75 (especially the bikes winding out to 10k rpms.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:43:37 PM EDT
[#32]
at the moment? no.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:46:17 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 50-140]
[#33]
Neighbor has a problem with ground squirrels and they have horses, so .22's are common, Other neighbor has coyotes come around so .223 is heard, I keep my 6.5x55 at the ready if the yotes want to come over to my place.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:47:10 PM EDT
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I live next to a high security facility and the closest presidential emergency facility to DC. Their security staff trains regularly with all kinds of glorious devices.
And occasionally you can hear private folks shooting too |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:50:23 PM EDT
[#35]
I live about a mile and a half from the local club. Despite a large hill between us l know when someone is at the range.
Probably the echo of the large mesa they use as a backstop. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:50:30 PM EDT
[#36]
Yup. Shakes my house sometimes.
25mm,120mm tank and mortar, 155mm, Machineguns, demo, etc. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:53:33 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Scott_S]
[#37]
Yes, I do hear gunfire from my home, but it’s hunters on the large acreage nearby. I live in Austin.
When I lived in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas it wasn’t hunters. 
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:59:27 PM EDT
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Yes
Every few days when the weather's nice I should've never taught my cats to hone there fire a nd maneuvering tactics out back My shooting bench  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:01:20 PM EDT
[#39]
Just about every weekend out here in rural ag land.
I've heard shooting in the suburbs on the edge of rural land back in central Florida, but I was never sure if it was people doing bad things or just people shooting at the edge of legal areas. Only time I've heard shooting in a city was when I was staying at my sister's house in south Boston back in the 80s. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:04:55 PM EDT
[Last Edit: j3_]
[#40]
Yes, but I live in a residential neighborhood with the lots 2 acres and up. Used to be someone that hunted the power line coming through the neighborhood and it kept the deer population down. It stopped a few years back but luckily someone is back to hunting/shooting on their lot every now and then but not enough. Someone pistol shoots every few months a little and every now and then you hear someone I guess testing a new gun they got with a few shots. At night on occasion you hear a shot I guess someone shooting at an unwanted critter.
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MS, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:07:29 PM EDT
[#41]
Neighborhood here. Yes, usually because it’s me shooting.
Earlier today, because fuck these assholes. 
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:08:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: jsg7162]
[#42]
Almost daily. Small arms, LMG, 50 cal and EOD/Ordnance. I have a training base for a neighbor. They were lighting off a shit ton of ordnance last week.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:11:45 PM EDT
[#43]
Heard them when we lived in the city. Decided to GTFO.
Still hear them out here in the sticks, but it's different. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:12:13 PM EDT
[#44]
Generally only from me or during hunting season. I do have one weekend/seasonal neighbor who I do not care for and who does not hunt but enjoys shooting. I just do not appreciate him firing hundred of rounds starting at 7am on a weekend.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:15:58 PM EDT
[#45]
The most dangerous thing I hear is Lions roaring.
Serious. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:23:25 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SAE]
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MedmanKS: The most dangerous thing I hear is Lions roaring. Serious. Maybe we could hook up? I will bust a cap on one of those bad boys with my .270 Win mag and fuck they world up real good. You know, unless it wasn't cool and stuff like that. 
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:24:16 PM EDT
[Last Edit: tac556]
[#47]
Rural acreage- all the damned time! Every day basically, from multiple directions. Nobody cares, it is cool…
I add to it occasionally, but try to be polite- no really loud guns, so mainly pistols/suppressed stuff. It isn’t that far to the neighbors, and I have a membership at an actual range as well. People opposed to gunfire noise need to stay in the cities and suburbs. Added- I hear it occasionally at late at night as well. Figure it is someone taking out a coyote, so I generally I am thinking “aim well!” but also kind of irritated if it wakes me up. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:25:40 PM EDT
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I voted "Everybody out in the sticks shoots" but it actually isn't everybody. I shoot at my place.
There's definitely 3 families/locations around me who shoot automatic weapons too (which is great). Nobody calls the sheriff's office about it (and if they did, it wouldn't work anyway) since it's not illegal. There is a city on the other side of this county where people shoot at each other almost every month, but their marksmanship is generally poor.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:27:50 PM EDT
[#49]
Of course.
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PA, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:29:51 PM EDT
[#50]
Yes, don’t live in the sticks but have a couple gun ranges within earshot range.
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