Discharge of a firearm in Sarasota county? (subdivision, living)

[loves2read]

Can anyone provide a link to the Sarasota County gun use ordinance or code?

[photoman_6]

think you need to look at florida statutes, not local

[bbronston]

I recall a news story earlier this year (possibly last year) that state law prohibited local governments from making local gun laws. Apparently, the law existed for many years but was largely ignored, resulting in a broad range of conflicting rules from location to location. Now, as I understand it (although I am not an expert), everything falls under the FL state statute 790.15. There may be others, too, but I had a customer who wanted to shoot on his large property and this was the law we found on the subject.

I imagine and hope that noise ordinances would go hand in hand with the right to shoot on one's own property.

[loves2read]

Ok
But I thought FL prohibited using a firearm in a populated/high density area
Like our subdivision
Someone living there said he had shot nuisance squirrels in hus backyard--and not w/BB or pellet gun
Frankly I have used guns since I was 8 and that is totally not proper gun safety IMO
Whatever the law is...

[blueherons]

I would just call the police department.

[LIFL]

Should be illegal, unless you have like atlest 1/2 an acre.

[bbronston]

Originally Posted by isles20

Should be illegal, unless you have like atlest 1/2 an acre.

There's a well-considered call for new legislation. Is there something magical about half-acre property lines that bullets can't penetrate?

It makes far more sense to have a law (as we do) that makes it illegal for anyone to launch a projectile that crosses a road, a property line, or a residence. It shouldn't matter if you live on 10 acres or a zero lot line property.

[beninfl]

1/2 acre is only a 100ft wide by 100 ft deep parcel. I can throw a baseball further than that.

A 9mm bullet can travel 7500 feet before falling to the Earth again. What can a 50BMG travel?

My *opinion* is that firearm usage should be restricted to discharge at a firing range or sportsman club with proper backstops to members whom pass a firearms safety course.

What the law is -- I dont know -- but common safety sense should always apply. If you dont know where the bullet will land, dont discharge the firearm. Never point it at anything you dont wish to destroy.

[loves2read]

My husband found the provision--
the way we read it seemed pretty straight forward that it is illegal to discharge a firearm in a populated area like a subdivision and mentions that shooting a projectile that crosses a public road or an easement or property line
but it does say that it is legal to hunt in approved areas that are 50 acres for rifles and 5 acres for shotguns...

it also reserves the right to use a gun in defense of property or person--the Castle Doctrine--even in a populated area....

I don't know why the sheriff that responded to the guy who was shooting squirrels didn't issue a ticket...unless he was able to say that his shot didn't leave his property...

[ArmyChief]

So, we don't live in a sub-division. I want to do target practice with my son using a 22 rim-fire. As long as my projectile does not leave my property..its legal?