Thread: What you think people's ?

The offence is not "shooting near a house". The offence is made if the court considers that you frightened or annoyed somebody shooting near a house. So in today's namby-pamby world his neighbours must have been terribly upset or really scared. Simple phone call to next door would have sorted it, I think!

Discharging firearm, airgun, pistol, or restricted weapon in or near dwellinghouse or public place

Every person commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding $3,000 or to both who, without reasonable cause, discharges a firearm, airgun, pistol, or restricted weapon in or near—

(a) a dwellinghouse; or

(b) a public place,—

so as to endanger property or to endanger, annoy, or frighten any person.