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Posted: 10/9/2010 11:56:42 PM EDT

State police indifferent... local prosecutor, not so much...

http://www.lohud.com/article/20101008/NEWS04/10080372/Vietnam-vet-charged-in-firing-of-33-gunshots-in-VFW-basement-in-Putnam

Posted: 10/10/2010 12:16:50 AM EDT

[#1]

The 63-year-old Air Force veteran, a retired Con Edison worker, fired his 22-caliber Beretta gun at a cereal box in the basement around midnight.

Cereal Killer

Posted: 10/10/2010 4:26:09 AM EDT

[#2]

"I wouldn't have done that if somebody else was around, or if the bullets were ricocheting around," he said. "I'm not that stupid. It may sound that way, but I'm not."

OK, then.

Posted: 10/10/2010 5:50:03 AM EDT

[#3]

Seems like a case of State Police using their discretion but the DA wanting to be in the papers.

Posted: 10/10/2010 6:12:53 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Seems like a case of State Police using their discretion but the DA wanting to be in the papers.

yup

its good to at least see the State Police not get in a uproar tizzy over something stupid though.

I dont see an issue with ...safe basement ranges

Posted: 10/10/2010 6:15:03 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Seems like a case of State Police using their discretion but the DA wanting to be in the papers.

yup

its good to at least see the State Police not get in a uproar tizzy over something stupid though.

I dont see an issue with ...safe basement ranges

Especially .22s...

Posted: 10/10/2010 8:18:29 AM EDT

[#6]

So they are saying that you need to be more than 500' from any building?, even if indoors? If that is the case, I know a couple of indoor ranges that are closer than 500' to another building. Why is not anyone getting arrested for that?

Posted: 10/10/2010 9:35:09 AM EDT

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Quoted:
So they are saying that you need to be more than 500' from any building?, even if indoors? If that is the case, I know a couple of indoor ranges that are closer than 500' to another building. Why is not anyone getting arrested for that?

From what i gather all you have to have is permission from the owners of the dwellings within 500 feet (not yards) of you.

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