flintknapper wrote:txinvestigator wrote:flintknapper wrote:txinvestigator wrote:Boma wrote:I know it can be unsafe to shoot a gun in the air, but if you shoot at the ground (grass not concrete) will it be ok?
(7) discharges a firearm in a public place
other than a public road or a sport shooting range, as defined by Section 250.001,
Local Government Code;
(9) discharges a firearm
on or across a public road;[/b]
Ummm, don't these statements contradict one another?
Maybe it should read "private" road in (7).
What am I missing?
Nope. One might shoot from land you own (not a public place) across a public road, to other land you own (not a public place). If they only had (7), then it would not be illegal to shoot across a public road from private property TO private property.
Having both covers it.
Maybe I'm just "thick", but the way #7 is written, it seems to suggest that it is an offense to shoot anyplace in public "other than"
(or except) a public road or a sport shooting range.
Then in #9 it goes on to state what we all know to be unlawful.
It still seems contradictory to me, or at best redundant. Who writes this stuff anyway?
It is as clear as mud - you can't see it
