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I made the comment I wont shoot anymore in my backyard just due to the fact that being able to shoot firearms is one thing, but when you have them pointed at you a lot of things go through your mind. The biggest thing is when I heard something right up beside my house I could have grabbed my gun to check out whatever it was. I could have died! Having firearms as a hobby is cool, but everything went out the window when It could have killed me. When your not doing anything wrong you don't exactly expect the police to show up and point so many guns at you. It also reminded me about gun safety and the 10 commandments. Ill come back around but its like I'm picking up firearms for the first time and starting from scratch

Haha tresspassing on my own property, and reckless shooting! I'm glad you got to hear about it seems they had a good reason to take me in. I have a pretty good backstop so I thought. I've been shooting out here for years and noone has complained guess my new ar15 was loud. I also have a lot of respect for them. My brother is a deputy sheriff. I understand they needed to do what they did. First time I've ever really been in fear for my life. I just won't shoot anymore. I was thinking though just bringing in 3 truck loads of dirt and setting up a really high berm but probly not don't want to offend anyone

im just glad i didnt grab my gun to check it out when i heard something outside my house, and glad I just happened to have caged my dogs. They would have never bit anyone

When they came I double checked by asking them if I broke the law by shooting out here. They said it was ok that I shoot back here, they just didnt care for my backstop but behind that i have so many woods it didnt matter. They wanted my backstop to be " As tall as the telephone poles"

This is Harris County

A Sergeant was there as well. I think it was anyway. On his uniform he had all his color pins on. I would really like to find out more about this.

no warrant or anything. I have my chl and stay out of trouble as much as I can. i just said yes sir, no sir and went with it. It just left an empty feeling in my stomach and felt like I could have been shot just for looking at them wrong.

The funny thing i noticed is one of them had a benelli m4, and another had a full auto colt. Alot of firepower to point on a good guy

Tell me what yall think of this. Today before the football game I just finished assembling an ar15. I had my buddy over and we decided to go out back and try it. I live outside city limits and about 10 acres of woods behind me. I still had a dirt berm setup that I shoot into to make sure it isn't going to go anywhere. I have been shooting out here for years as well as some neighbors. So I shoot about 10 rounds and give the ok and go back inside to clean it. As the game is on I get a knock and go outside to find out that the police had surrounded my house and had 3 shotguns on me and 2 ars on both sides of the house. They told me to come out and handcuffed me and my friend. They had to clear my house and such looking for anyone else. They let me know that there had been a vietnam vet that was shooting at houses around there and thought that it was our house. Anyway to make a long story short in cuffs I had to show them my berm and woods behind the house. They thought my berm wasn't high enough and that I needed more. So after everything was said and done they let me go, and told me it could have been deadly conduct. Never again will I shoot in my own backyard. I felt really embarrassed with my neighbors wondering wth is going on, just never again! On top of that I just happened to have my dogs in their cage and they let me know that if my dogs were running loose in my house they were going to shoot them