Zionsville IN council attempts to prevent firearms discharge on farms!

[Mr Potato Head]

This is not just a Zionsville problem. This is a any lawful firearms owner problem. It may be coming to your rural area soon.

“(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to fire or discharge a firearm within 150 yards in proximity to or within the range of any person or assemblage of people, adjacent private property, vehicle, farm, dwelling, house, apartment, church, school, airport, or other building, park, trail, pathway or recreational area, or to fire in such direction such that any projectile expelled could or does strike, hit, enter or pass through any of the foregoing.”

What is the definition of a “farm” or “trail”?

This needs to be stopped NOW. Do the math. Assume you have a 20 acre tract 1,000ft x 1,000ft, since you could not shoot within 150 yards of a property line you would have a 50ft x 50ft area in the very center of your 20 acre property that you could shoot within. If you stand 10yds inside your property you could not shoot in towards the center of your own property even if you owned 10,000 acres. Anything under 20 acres forget about it. No discharge of a firearm PERIOD! No teaching our children or grandchildren the safe handling of firearms. No target shooting with a .22 on a Sunday afternoon. NOTHING! This affects the farm area surrounding Zionsville. Not inside the Zionsville city limits!

As usual this is an attempt to disguise a leftist law with a protective name like “To Provide For Safety in Discharging Firearms”

It’s real name is “To Prevent Lawful Firearms Owners From Safely Firing Their Firearms On Their Own Property”.

Even the Boone County Sheriff Ken Campbell has spoken out against this and is asking for time to speak at the meeting.

This is EXACTLY what all of the rural owners were assured would NOT happen as feared during the recent annexation of this area. The city people move to the country and want to destroy all long standing country activities.

This is about firing guns, not being safe with them. There are plenty of laws on the books dealing with the unsafe discharge of a firearm already.

Even those not in this area PLEASE copy and paste the council members email address below in an email and let them know this is total nonsense.

Yes I know it's asking a lot but please consider it. You may be next!

jpapa@zionsville-in.gov; smundy@zionsville-in.gov; culmer@zionsville-in.gov; thaak@zionsville-in.gov; tschuler@zionsville-in.gov; ehopper@zionsville-in.gov; ssuarez@zionsville-in.gov; jyeo@zionsville-in.gov

 

[Mr Potato Head]

A meeting about the "Stripping the Second Amendment from Rural Boone County Residents” Ordinance, disguised as a gun safety law is up for review. The “Safety Meeting” Monday August 26th at 9am is at the Town Hall. This meeting is curiously absent from the Towns “Activities Calendar”. The article in the Zionsville Sentinel that was on the Sentinel’s website has also been pulled that had the date and time in the article. It appears someone doesn’t want to know what the residents think. It also seems that nobody knows who the socialist is that actually drafted this ordinance all ready for signatures without public review. As written it is so broad it will restrict discharge of a firearm anywhere in the area. They claim it’s not a second amendment issue. The right to bear arms also comes with the right to fire them. Without that they are simply clubs.

I smell a rat.

Remember this is not about inside the city limits. If you live anywhere in Boone County this concerns you as Zionsville expands into your area. Next will be restrictions on livestock, spreading manure in your fields etc. This is not just about Second Amendment rights it’s about landowner rights.

I plan on being there.

Tell your friends and neighbors!