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So… pretty much everyone in the area had a shooting range except the accused?
A "backstop" is not a shooting range...
It's usually just a pile of dirt.
It's wild for a bunch of people in a neighborhood to all be doing this, because even if the first couple are kind of safe about it, every idiot starts thinking jt's safe to just shoot at a can or anything. All they know is they hear gunshots
Sounds like a terrible neighbourhood to live in, shots going off from everyone all the time
I used to play a game with friends in Tacoma, WA, USA where we would sit outside at night and guess what the caliber was when we heard gunfire every 5 or so minutes.
That's so painfully American
I'm picturing celebratory gunfire into the air every weekend.
My parents have a place to shoot in their yard. It's a stack of old railroad ties four deep, two wide and ten tall with dirt piled up around the back. There is an empty field for over a mile behind that. I can't imagine using it if anyone was any closer.
Under the right conditions, the NATO 5.56 x 45 mm can travel u to 3600 meters (4,000 yards). If one round, for some reason is shot above the berm, one mile is not enough. It does not take much to fuck up.
At least there is a berm, unlike the guy from the article.
Rent must be hella cheap
This is Oklahoma.
Exactly. Why didn’t he have a shooting range too?
Apparently he did, just lacking the important part of a fucking backstop.
Backstop is not sufficient. You will miss it eventually. Should be a backstop and no one living behind it
Honestly anything less than a 15' berm or reinforced wall should not be a permissible firing location in a residential area. And I still wouldn't put it past people to miss.
Not that we really need personal firing ranges in everyone's backyard.
Ricochets and unintended discharges happen at ranges all the time.
infamous for the bombing incident.
Yeah, this happened literally 4 houses down from me. We all shoot guns, but we have targets, and those that dont go down to the bridge and fire into the creek bank. This whole thing is because he was lazy/stupid.
Just checking, you go to the stream and shot lead bullets it? That then infiltrates the watershed. So there's a lead poisoning problem in your area?
Indeed, I would not drink their well water. It's fucked.
This happens everywhere. The VFW in the next town over has a "turkey shoot" where they shoot bird shot over a river at a pavilion with targets on the side. All that bird shot just goes straight into the river. The VFW is in the center of town, so it's not like it's ever been a secret.