Originally posted by Ephemeral
It's illegal for him to own the weapon, not to use it. If the appropriately aged owner of those weapons had been standing in the vicinity, it's a non issue. As the cop can go "hey.. ahh you own these and you're letting them shoot them? ahh gotcha." but without that person right there they can say they have all the permission on earth but the cop isn't going to believe them, is going to hassle them, and is going to threaten something of which they are blatantly not guilty of, and cause all kinds of grief. See?
His post above just illustrates just exactly how much the sheriff will be willing to harrass the guys doing the shooting for the above reason. It's a crap shoot. They chose not to push it, and I don't blame them.
Jerome all you need is a backstop that the rounds will not penetrate through, and yes I'm aware that's asking quite a bit for the 7.62x39, but enough sandbags, a large mound of moved earth, will all do the job.
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