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  1. #21
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    Default Re: North Strabane Township Police Oppression

    It certainly looks like you've been practicing your double-taps.

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    Default Re: North Strabane Township Police Oppression

    Quote Originally Posted by fortysix View Post
    These are the particulars hopefully his lawyer can clarify. At least in my township, you cannot discharge a firearm within I think it's 200 yards or meters of an occupied dwelling or place of business. A third of an acre would make that a bit difficult in any direction, unless the adjacent lands are empty or abandoned (and even then there might be an issue because abandoned lands *could* be occupied, even if illegally). The police officer might have technical grounds beyond what is stated plainly in the law for his claims of *gonna git you sucka*. Again, this is what a professional lawyer is for, for us normal joes that can't or won't read the billions of little tiny technicalities that a determined *peace officer* or DA could string together to create an arrestable and prosecutable situation out of nothing.
    Thanks for the advice.
    The township has no required safety zones in their ordinances.
    I certainly don't want to risk legal jeopardy and have decided that going to the federal courts for relief will help in two ways:
    Getting past the small town politics and reestablishing my rights to target shoot soonest.

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    Default Re: North Strabane Township Police Oppression

    Quote Originally Posted by Shodan View Post
    It certainly looks like you've been practicing your double-taps.
    Yea talk about making a simple situation complicated

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    Default Re: North Strabane Township Police Oppression

    OP, I'm above Canonsburg lake - good luck - very interested in hearing the outcome...

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    Default Re: North Strabane Township Police Oppression

    Quote Originally Posted by deangelo1290@comcast.net View Post
    All are heavy industrial.
    You don't by chance live on Paper Street, stay up all night making soap and hitting golf balls do you?

    Rules are written in the stone,
    Break the rules and you get no bones,
    all you get is ridicule, laughter,
    and a trip to the house of pain.

  6. #26
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    Default Re: North Strabane Township Police Oppression

    Good luck. I'm betting they will change the ordinance.
    NRA Training Counselor, Chief Range Safety Officer, NRA Benefactor Member



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    Default Re: North Strabane Township Police Oppression

    Any help with court related fees?
    'It is Their Right, It is Their Duty, To Throw Off Such Government '

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    Default Re: North Strabane Township Police Oppression

    Good luck deangelo, I hope your lawyer wipes the floor with that police chief!

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    Default Re: North Strabane Township Police Oppression

    Maybe I'm missing something here, but I'm not so sure anyone is going to be wiping the floor with anyone.


    I'd be willing to bet that a good 85% of the people on this forum are "oppressed" in that they can't shoot on their own property due to local ordinances.
    If my neighbor decided to start target practicing in his back yard, I'd be the first to call the police. It's not safe to do so here - that's why there's an ordinance. It has nothing to do with "oppression."


    The OP doesn't really make his situation clear enough to make a call, but until I know more, all I can do is sit back and say, "This should be interesting."
    I called to check my ZIP CODE!....DY-NO-MITE!!!

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    Default Re: North Strabane Township Police Oppression

    Quote Originally Posted by rfgpitt View Post
    OP, I'm above Canonsburg lake - good luck - very interested in hearing the outcome...
    I will keep the forum updated.

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