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I've been shooting my BB gun in my yard in Dallas for years with no issues. I haven't been able to find anything regarding them in Dallas city code other than under brandishing replica firearms, but I seem to remember turning up a law in the past that basically stated the pellets/BBs couldn't cross your property line. I posted what I found below. You can see that a pellet or BB gun is considered a replica firearm in section 31-16, but the offense to discharge is related to a firearm. I did see that there was a penalty for discharging an air gun listed, but without the code, it's hard to tell what that really means. The three cops that live on my block have never given me any trouble.



SEC. 31-4. DISCHARGING A FIREARM IN A PRIVATE PLACE.

(a) A person commits an offense if he discharges a firearm, rifle, shotgun, automatic rifle, revolver, pistol, or other weapon designed for the purpose of firing or discharging a shell or cartridge, in a place not customarily open to the public, whether the shell or cartridge is blank or live ammunition.


SEC. 31-16.

(6) REPLICA FIREARM means any device or object that is a toy version or facsimile of, or is reasonably likely to be perceived as, a pistol, revolver, shotgun, sawed- off shotgun, rifle, machine gun, rocket launcher, or other firearm, and includes but is not limited to a starter pistol, BB gun, pellet gun, air soft gun, paintball gun, or air rifle.

(b) A person commits an offense if he recklessly displays or brandishes a replica firearm in a manner or under circumstances that cause another person to:

(1) reasonably believe that the replica firearm is actually an operable firearm; and

(2) fear imminent bodily injury from a firearm.