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Mandatory 1-year prison for celebrating New Years Eve

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Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:55 AM

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video: www.azfamily.com/news/local/Glendale-police-ready-to-track-random-gunf
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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- It's a felony in Arizona to randomly fire a weapon, and with New Year's Eve, a holiday often marked with celebratory gunfire, just days away, police are getting ready to track offenders.

The state law that makes random gunfire illegal is called Shannon's Law. It was named for a 14-year-old girl who was killed by a random bullet in 1999. Shannon Smith was talking on the phone in the backyard of her Central Phoenix home when she was hit. She died instantly.

Sgt. Brent Coombs of the Glendale Police Department gave Bruce Haffner the lowdown on his department's high-tech gunfire-detection system. It's called SpotShotter and it's extremely accurate.

"If you fire a round, that equipment is good enough that it can tell us exactly -- to the house -- where that round was fired from," Coombs said.

Coombs said people still don't consider the inherent danger of firing a weapon into the air.

"If you fire that gun, that bullet is going to go up, but it's coming down somewhere and it's going to do some damage somewhere," he said.

Until Shannon's Law was enacted in 2000, firing a gun into the air was a misdemeanor. Shannon's Law made it a class 6 felony. Conviction on a first offense carries a mandatory minimum prison sentence of one and one half years.

Of course everyone shooting safely into the ground will also be sent to prison, and everyone shooting fireworks will be arrested by SWAT team. But 50-million illegal aliens are immune to arrest. That's Amerika.

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Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:46 PM

DMAANLILEILTT

I would say it's a good thing people can't randomly fire lethal weapons but I guess personal safety is a crazy left-wing phenomenon.

"I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?"

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Thursday, December 30, 2010 5:58 PM

ANTHONYT

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Hello,

Shooting firearms within populated areas is dangerous, except in specially constructed shooting range facilities.

Anyone who wants to shoot firearms for fun around here can drive 30 minutes into the desert and go hog wild.

Guns. Explosives. Whatever.

But not in the city, and for good reason.

As an aside, I have sincere doubts about the utility and accuracy of their gunfire detection system.

--Anthony

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Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:02 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Back in Baltimore we used to call it the "lead rain", cause right after there would be the patter-patter of the rounds coming DOWN...

You shoot a bullet in the air, it's gonna come down *somewhere*, and I am of the firm opinion that you have a responsibility for every single bullet you fire - which I am however unwilling to press so long as a badge insulates some from the penalty of indiscriminately blazing away, but nonetheless you ARE responsible for where your rounds go.

I do find it grimly amusing that some cities, including Detroit, felt the need to make such a public announcement, kinda reminds me of the scene in Independence Day when they ask folk not to shoot at the space ships, heh.

That said, I dislike the idea of shot-tracking systems on principle, as an aggressor will be long gone by the time the police get there, but a defender will be on the spot, and once again comes the "how-DARE-you-defend-yourself" issue I have despised all my life - there were no few times I had to snap off a couple rounds in my defense back in Baltimore and then flee the area, to the point where I used subsonic rounds to limit the problem since the question of not being technically old enough to carry woulda come up, despite being old enough to be left swinging in the damn breeze about it.

Anyhow, maybe if they didn't outlaw fireworks to ludicrous degrees, some of these folk might choose a (albeit not much) safer method of their celebration, but since when have good sense and the law ever been even cousins, neh ?

I find that even MORE ironic on the 4th of July though, that our primary method of celebrating it is in most cases illegal - makes a damn mockery of that holiday in the first place.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Friday, December 31, 2010 6:30 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

My Dad used to buy blanks specifically for the Holiday. I used to build blackpowder fireworks mixed with iron filings or copper filings for colorful sparks.

Those were the good old days. My poor Dad has no real options in Florida anymore. I, at least, can drive out to the desert and have a tannerite party.

--Anthony

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Friday, December 31, 2010 6:47 AM

PIRATENEWS

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Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Back in Baltimore we used to call it the "lead rain", cause right after there would be the patter-patter of the rounds coming DOWN...

Same in the country, mainly shotgun pellets. Low-velocity, low impact.

Rule 1 in hunting, don't shoot anything unless there's a solid background to catch the bullet.

But shooting birds requires shooting in the air...

I bet this "gunfire detection system" spends 99% of the time evesdropping on people's conversations, with the remainder locating fireworks. If there's real gunfire, the cops will go in the opposite direction.

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