What happens when your neighbor is anti-gun???

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What happens when my neighbors are anti-gun?

They get to watch me clean my firearms on the picnic table and get to see freshly punched targets from the range. :D

Whats better is they also get to see knives thrown from 16 ft, or further, into a nice 18"x18" plywood board. Just so they know that knives can be a projectile weapon as well. Then it begs the question. Should we have knife control? If the answer is yes. The screw drivers come out or the wood chisels and even a sharpened crow bar or two. ;)

What really makes them cringe is when you use base balls or river rocks in leather sling and pummel the deer dummy. They really don't like to think that a person can reach out a "touch" anything with just about anything they can pick up.

The buddy system is really fun. When you and two friends can use a several large bungee cords and a large leather pocket to hurl 16 lb. bowling balls for a great distance with accuracy. They most definitely don't like the idea of a virtually silent cannon ball launcher.:eek:

Some folks are just insecure and will try to push that off upon others. Especially when the realize that no matter what they do it is the individual that they really can't control.

I can see them now. We need a law. No one should be able to have arms of any kind, including the arms attached to their bodies. :rolleyes:
 
Massachusetts already has knife control well in force.

Chapter 269: Section 10. Carrying dangerous weapons...

(b) Whoever, except as provided by law, carries on his
person, or carries on his person or under his control
in a vehicle, any stiletto, dagger or a device or case
which enables a knife with a locking blade to be drawn
at a locked position, any ballistic knife, or any knife
with a detachable blade capable of being propelled by any
mechanism, dirk knife, any knife having a double-edged blade,
or a switch knife, or any knife having an automatic spring
release device by which the blade is released from the
handle, having a blade of over one and one-half inches,
or a slung shot, blowgun, blackjack, metallic knuckles
or knuckles of any substance which could be put to the
same use with the same or similar effect as metallic
knuckles, nunchaku, zoobow, also known as klackers or
kung fu sticks, or any similar weapon consisting of two
sticks of wood, plastic or metal connected at one end by a
length of rope, chain, wire or leather, a shuriken or any
similar pointed starlike object intended to injure a person
when thrown, or any armband, made with leather which has
metallic spikes, points or studs or any similar device made
from any other substance or a cestus or similar material
weighted with metal or other substance and worn on the hand,
or a manrikigusari or similar length of chain having weighted
ends; or whoever, when arrested upon a warrant for an alleged
crime, or when arrested while committing a breach or disturbance
of the public peace, is armed with or has on his person, or has
on his person or under his control in a vehicle, a billy or
other dangerous weapon other than those herein mentioned and
those mentioned in paragraph (a), shall be punished by
imprisonment for not less than two and one-half years nor more
than five years in the state prison, or for not less than six
months nor more than two and one-half years in a jail or house
of correction, except that, if the court finds that the defendant
has not been previously convicted of a felony, he may be punished
by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for
not more than two and one-half years in a jail or house of correction.
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Be careful. A hysterical neighbor can get you in trouble with the law. In Connecticut, if two neighbors feel threatened by you and complain, the State Police will come seize your guns.

For this reason I keep my gun ownership confidential (no stickers on car or windows) and I don't let my neighbors see me carrying guns to my car. In my area, I don't think anyone would complain; however, somebody could start some gossip that I have guns and therefore my house would be a good place to rob.

I think especially that adolescent behavior with guns creates a bad image (swaggering, bad attitudes, threatening signs on doors, etc.)

Most of the people who hate guns can be won over by your good will and decency. It's worked for me.
 
Most of the people who hate guns can be won over by your good will and decency. It's worked for me.
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I'm with Hallucinator. I'd just spend more effort being a good neighbor than being all 'within my rights' with them, and keep the whole thing on the DL. This country is too screwed up to be cavalier about this kind of stuff (at least down here in S Fla).
 
I recently found out that my neighbors have absolutely no idea about my hobby. We have some teenagers who recently moved into the area and are terrorizing the neighborhood. They'll eventually get theirs, but the elderly lady that lives between me and them said to me one day "if anything happens, you can come over to my house, I have a shotgun and I know how to use it" :rolleyes: If she only knew...
 
"but the elderly lady that lives between me and them said to me one day "if anything happens, you can come over to my house, I have a shotgun and I know how to use it" If she only knew..."

Fair enough, but that lady is my kind of people. I bet she *does* know how to use it.

Tim
 
They get to watch me clean my firearms on the picnic table and get to see freshly punched targets from the range.
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I clean on my deck in plain view of both sets of neighbors, neither of which are gun people and I have a "human target" from my CCW test hanging in my garage. While not my best shooting, it's fairly imposing. I had a salesman in my house recently (had to replace the heat pump) and he looked at it and said, "Shoot much?" I said "Only when I have to." He changed the subject.
 
No offense intended, but don't you guys think it's rather childish and immature to flaunt your guns all over the place in front of your anti-gun neighbors just to "annoy" them? All you're doing is feeding fuel to their fire. Just ignore them and enjoy your hobby. I'm not saying don't clean your guns outside to avoid harmful fumes, but don't do it just to spite your neighbors. Come on guys.

Now, I've never had anti-gun neighbors, but rather some anti-hunting neighbors. My friends and I used to just take our kills through the ally if the anti-hunters were outside in front yard.
 
It's a joke guys. Would you really want people to know what kind of firearms that you have? Especially ones that would love to take or steal them from you?

As for the slings and knives, well. I do like to use them and there are no humanoid targets used. If they are intimidated by a person enjoying eye hand coordination exercises or training to hunt with ancient hunting tools. That is their problem. There are no laws that say you cannot practice archery or similar arts here in VA.

Brandishing a firearm is illegal and would be very stupid. Just cleaning them could be misconstrued as brandishing in public.

Yes, there is knife control going on in England. I wouldn't be surprised if California tries that too. Then we can move on to shoe string control or sock full of steel washers control, maybe even pocket full of rocks control. :rolleyes:

One thing is for sure, some folks are just plain scared of their own shadow. Maybe we should ban shadow boxing too. :D

Heck, We could even ban mean looking people. Make it illegal to not have a permanent smile. ;)
 
I got sent to the office in fourth grade for "smiling in class."
No kidding.
Then there was the time I got sent to the office when the teacher walked in the room just as I was airborne to pounce on a milk carton. I admit I probably deserved to go that time.

Seriously, some folks have no sense of humor, and will do mean vindictive things over little or nothing just because they don't like you. Don't advertise to your neighbors. Nothing good will come of it.
 
i love living where it doesn't matter

i know of 4 houses on my block with archery targets in the back yard (i'm one of them) and i live accross the street from the local highschool:D
 
I feel for ya, Dutchy. And I can empathize, living in California.

Some years ago, a friend's roomate took his AR-15 apart and couldn't get it back together. My friend took the rifle into the garage to reassemble it on his workbench. Since it was mid-summer, when his wife went grocery shopping he left the door open. One of his neighbors saw him with the rifle and called the PD. When they arrived, the cops were very cautious until he showed them it was partially disassembled. The cops left, suggesting he close the garage door "to keep the neighbors from wetting themselves".
 
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