Shooting guns on new years eve.

[HardDrive]

I'm all for celebrating, but some people just take it a bit too far. For example, last night some drunken moron was in my backyard shooting a .22 pistol at midnight. The nerve of some people!

[porsche4life]

What were you shooting it at?

[nynor]

i spent a new year's eve in KC, MO. it was nuts. guns were going off everywhere.

[genrex]

Was it windy, and snowing big snowflakes? I bet those are hard to hit...

[Rick V]

Someone was popping off a few here last night, woke me up, and I decided they were far enough away that I could go back to sleep.

[azasadny]

No gunfire here, but more fireworks than I ever remember there being on New Year's Eve. It sounded like the 4th of July. Our Golden Retriever was not impressed...

[Don Ro]

I lived in Menlo Park, CA for ~40 yrs. Not too far away was East Palo Alto...in the early years EPA was a drug haven and lots of shooting in the air on July 4th and New Years Eve.
While tilling my garden one spring I found a .45 slug.
One year a little girl was killed when she was hit in the top of her head.
Not too long after the druggies were driven off by a massive Fed. & local LEO task force.
Thank God!

[masraum]

I hope you were shooting into the dirt/ground not the air. Shooting up is dangerous and potentially deadly.

[HardDrive]

We just moved here from Seattle, and I was shocked at how much gunfire there was here in Columbus. Lots of shotguns/pistols going off. Sounded like a few centerfire rifles as well!

I remember being a kid in the 1970s, and spending new years in Muskegon, MI at my grand parents. My dad and grandfather took me outside to shoot a 12 gauge. About 30 seconds after midnight, there was this strange sound, as if it were raining. It was birdshot coming down on the cars like rain!

[HardDrive]

Originally Posted by masraum

I hope you were shooting into the dirt/ground not the air. Shooting up is dangerous and potentially deadly.

I didn't want to get too close to the drunken fool, but he did appear to be shooting directly into the lawn.

[mikesride]

My daughter was hit and injured from a bullet falling almost straight down on her when she was about 12 years old.....not her best memory of a weekend at the cottage......some azzshats should not be given the privilege (or right...I get it,,,its your right I am not talking about normal decent folks here) to own any firearm.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

I didn't want to get too close to the drunken fool, but he did appear to be shooting directly into the lawn.

excellent

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

I didn't want to get too close to the drunken fool, but he did appear to be shooting directly into the lawn.

He was just trying to help you get rid of moles

[flatbutt]

Sorry but such "recreational" gun firing is never a good idea. IMHO.

[yetibone]

My neighborhood sounded like a war zone last night, too. After the fella two houses down (a damn good neighbor, actually) emptied his Tommy spoon @ 24:02 I did ponder using a rock, a gallon size Ziploc bag, a cutting torch, and a burning newspaper to return fire, but alas, I didn't wanna break any windows.

[Racerbvd]

Only with Tracer rounds, over the river..

[red-beard]

We heard some on Monday night and definitely Tuesday night. Not unusual in Mexico...

[Hard-Deck]

I wish you had asked me about Columbus before you moved there. I have volumes of stories...not good ones.

We just moved here from Seattle, and I was shocked at how much gunfire there was here in Columbus. Lots of shotguns/pistols going off. Sounded like a few centerfire rifles as well!



I remember being a kid in the 1970s, and spending new years in Muskegon, MI at my grand parents. My dad and grandfather took me outside to shoot a 12 gauge. About 30 seconds after midnight, there was this strange sound, as if it were raining. It was birdshot coming down on the cars like rain!

[Rusty Heap]

with reference to the OP.................."what a waste of .22 ammo"


9mm is almost cheaper to blow through.

[Tobra]

^yeah^ what is up with .22 rimfire prices?

I heard a few guns around midnight, not too far off.