Thread: Want to avoid jail - 900m close to a dwelling

Arms act 1983, section 48:
"48 Discharging firearm, airgun, pistol, or restricted weapon in or near dwellinghouse or public place
A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to a fine not exceeding $10,000, if the person, without reasonable excuse, discharges a firearm, airgun, pistol, or restricted weapon in or near a dwellinghouse or a public place so as to—
(a)
endanger property; or
(b)
endanger, annoy, or frighten any person."

Methinks you have a reasonable excuse in your duty of pest control. There are reasonable precautions to take such as using a silencer with subsonics, firing out of neighbours view, etc. etc. He sounds like a dickhead though ... so expect trouble either way. Don't take goats with just a .22 rimfire, SPCA may get involved. I'd have assumed 200m is reasonable distance from Mr Dick's dwelling so long as you don't whizz bullets over his roof.