And Idaho, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one of those Californian's that screwed up their state and are now in Idaho complaining how "red" this state is with our "personal resposiability" and "gun loving", "freedom Loving" ways.....lol
My buddy lives out in the boondocks of King County. Very rural. It's an "open shoot" area which means as long as one has a proper backstop, it's perfectly ok to go into the backyard and shoot some rounds. Very cool.
The first time he did so, the count cops were called. They told him they received a call about gunshots coming from his property, called in by a neighbor. He said they were pretty cool and once they saw he had a backstop and thus wasn't shooting recklessly, they left. Didn't disarm him or any of that crap.
Apparently, his neighboor is a Seattle (read: CITY) transplant to the rural area, built a McMansion on the plot next to my friend's and can't accept that in the country, all the big city Seattle rules DO NOT APPLY. The next time my buddy shot (I was with him that time) in the backyard, the neighbor called the cops again. It was a different guy who responded this time and he did the same thing, just checked out the backstop. My buddy asked him if there was some way he could make a notation in their database that he was firing legally, so the cops wouldn't come out every time he shot. The cop said he could, but it would depend on if the responding officer did some checks in his computer system, that some guys don't do (if it's anything like my dept, it's old timers that dont like to use the computer, aren;'t super comfortable with it, so use dispatch mostly w/o doing research on their own on a property before responding).
The cop said he would speak with the complainant and explain that he lived in an open shoot area and he'd have to suck it up, if he didn't like his neighbors doing some shooting on a weekend afternoon. Apparently, the neighbor had never heard of "open shoot" and was incensed that people could just shoot their guns on their property (the cop returned to my buddy's house and told him the outcome of talking to the neighbor). TOUGH! The cop told him that now that they had checked and determined the backstop was valid, that the guy needed to stop calling the police for shots heard, since it had already been safety checked and could border on harassment. Apparently, the guy got livid etc.
The lesson is - research this crap BEFORE you move to a jurisdiction. This guy just assumed, as a big city denizen, that things in the country worked just like they do in the big city. hell no!
The former Seattleites are like the above mentioned CAlifornian. They move from their place to another place (whether Idaho or the rural county in the example I gave) and expect the locals etc. to conform to THEIR way of life. Au contraire. My buddy's neighbor can bitch and moan all he wants, but he should have done his due diligence BEFORE plunking down a million (or whatever) on his dream home in the country. A country boy can survive and all, and that includes shooting. The town that I live in very suburban and doesn't have "open shoot", but in the wide open county, it's a different story - very gun friendly.
I know a guy with a machine gun license. It would be AWESOME if he came out and shot with us. I can just imagine the neighbor hearing automatic gunfire and freaking out
