I believe that your first consultation with an attorney is free in most cases. Just a thought....
State preemption would nullify any county ordinance against discharging a firearm (Title 21, § 1289.24). And since Oklahoma counties aren’t general governments with home rule (they have very limited legislative power from what I understand), I’m not sure they could make such an ordinance in the first place. A municipality may prohibit discharging firearms, but @TonyKane1 stated he does not live within city limits.
Leo is allowed by law to lie to you, but you are prohibited by law from lying to them. Your second deputy may have the "public safety" in mind when saying its illegal or he is just spouting crap out of his arse.
Talk to a Lawyer.
I really believe he is lying or else the two other deputies that have been on the job for years would have told me I was breaking the law. But they specifically said I wasn’t. The guy was young and has only been a deputy for about a year he said. I could just tell by how he was acting and some of the things he was saying that he was trying to scare me into not shooting anymore. Like mentioning arresting me three times for “wrecklessly discharging a firearm”. I didn’t realize shooting safely into a berm is wrecklessly shooting. I had my nieces boyfriend talk to his grandpa the sheriff of pott county and have him call me. I’ll let you know what he says. But man I cannot find any statute whether it be state, or county that says I can’t shoot.
I got ahold of a family friend who is a state senator and he had his staff look up the laws to see if there are any that prevent shooting on my property. They said there are no laws that prevent it, even in town. But that if someone lives within city limits they have to check with the city to make sure there are no ordinances prohibiting it. I also searched the ok.gov site and our legislative sight and couldn’t find a single statute prohibiting me from shooting on my property. As long as I am being safe there is nothing that can be done. And that came straight form senator Sharp.
I hope you're right. I remember anyone can run for office (and win!), doesn't mean they have any real legal knowledge or authority. I don't know this Senator, not bad-mouthing him, just saying, I'd still want to talk to a practicing attorney, and might want to set up a meeting with the Sheriff to lay things out and get it all straight. I just know I wouldn't believe anything AOC told me is "legal", and I would be the one responsible, not her.
If you are 100% solid on being outside of incorporated city limits the only way you could be arrested is this: (from your previous post) “wrecklessly discharging a firearm”. There are state statutes on that.
If you have neighbors that falsely state you as doing such to a deputy, you might well get arrested. The deputies won't have much choice to do so if they get a complaint and they confirm you were shooting. All I'm saying is be careful.
If you have neighbors that falsely state you as doing such to a deputy, you might well get arrested. The deputies won't have much choice to do so if they get a complaint and they confirm you were shooting. All I'm saying is be careful.
If you are close enough to neighbors that you are getting numerous complaints, the prudent thing to do would be to either find another place to shoot, or move. The only other alternative is to continue to ignore complaints from neighbors and deal with the legal issues as they occur. legal costs, even if doing everything legally, are always expensive.
They cannot just arrest me because a neighbor says I was doing something I wasn’t. Shooting into a backstop with nothing behind it but woods is NOT recklessly discharging a firearm. If it were I would have been arrested this last time by the deputy came. The two prior deputies that same specifically said I wasn’t breaking ANY laws. They checked my backstop and said I was being safe. I redid the backstop to make it even better. So I am even more safe. If they can just lie to the cops to get me arrested then they could just say I was shooting recklessly when one of the other people across the woods shoots. They can lie and say it’s me. No other neighbor calls on me and none of them say a word. I don’t even shoot that much. That’s why I have had the cops called twice in the two years I have lived there. I have shot probably 20+ times since living there. And those have been spaced out. If you knew these people you would know why they call. They are anti gun liberals. She is a teacher at my sons school. No one likes her or her brat kids.
I haven’t had numerous complaints. Two in two years. From the same anti gun liberals. My closest neighbors don’t say a word. These particular neighbors live about 250 yards across the woods to the east of me. Seems by a lot of the comments you have made in the past that when an anti gunner complains of me or anyone else shooting we are supposed bend over and do whatever they want. I guess we live in two different America’s. I live in the one where I have freedom and rights. Just because some worthless neighbor doesn’t like me shooting doesn’t mean I should have to stop shooting or move. Especially when it is legal for me to do it. I don’t coward to other people. Especially to anti gun liberals. What if I go into the woods which a deacon in my church owns and shoot? Is that ok? Because they shoot all the time. But my worthless neighbor doesn’t call on them. And I know the same neighbor didn’t call the police on the cop that o bought the house from. He shot all the time. He is the one that installed the first berm. But since I’m no cop they call on me.
