Clayton County : "Sec. 62-5. Discharge of weapons"

[Oscar Knight]

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(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to fire a gun, rifle, pistol, revolver, cannon, air rifle, firearm of any type or shoot a slingshot or bow and arrow within the unincorporated area of the county within 1,000 feet of any residence, place of worship, business or public meeting place; except, that this section shall not apply to any law enforcement officer while in the discharge of his official duties, nor to any county animal control officer as provided below, nor to any person hunting upon his own property or the premises of another with the owner's written consent in that area of the county zoned for agriculture by a zoning ordinance, order or resolution of the board of commissioners; provided that such person hunting on the premises of another shall at all times have the written permission of the owner of such property on his person.

(b)
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit events commonly known as turkey shoots; provided, that before any turkey shoot may be held within the unincorporated area of the county, a permit therefor shall be acquired by the sponsoring entity. The permit shall be issued by the director of community development for no fee; provided that:

(1)
The sponsoring organization is charitable or nonprofit.

(2)
The applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the director of community development that it has made adequate provisions for and will provide for the safety of all participants and for members of the public at large.

(3)
No sponsoring organization may hold more than three turkey shoots in any calendar year.

(4)
Permits issued under this section shall be valid for 30 days from issuance.

(c)
Clayton County Animal Control Officers are authorized to possess and use self contained, compressed air powered rifles issued by the county for the specific intended purpose of sedation and capture of animals.

(Code 1973, § 2-19-10; Ord. No. 2007-56, § 1, 3-20-07)

[Oscar Knight]

www.claytoncountyga.gov/pdfs/commissioners/resolutions/2007-56.pdf

STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF CLAYTON
ORDINANCE NO. 2007 -56

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, AS AMENDED, $PECIFICALL Y, CODE OF CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, CHAPTER 62, OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS, SO AS TO AMEND SAID CHAPTER AND TO DELETE IN ITS ENTIRETY THE PRESENT SECTION 62-5 "DISCHARGE OF WEAPONS", AND ITS SUBSECTIONS, AND TO SUBSTITUTE IN LIEU THEREOF A NEW SECTION 62-5 "DISCHARGE OF WEAPONS", AND SUBSECTIONS; TO REPEAL CONFLICTING LAWS, ORDINANCES, AND RESOLUTIONS; TO PROVIDE SEVERABILITY; TO PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF CLAYTON COUNTY AND IT IS HEREBY ORDAINED:

Section 1. The CODE OF CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, as amended, is hereby further amended by amending Part II, CODE OF CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, Chapter 62, Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions, by deleting the present Section 62-5, entitled "Discharge of weapons", and substituting in lieu there of a new Section 62-5, "Discharge of weapons" to read as follows:

"Sec. 62-5. Discharge of weapons

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to fire a gun, rifle, pistol,
revolver, cannon, air rifle, firearm of any type or shoot a slingshot or bow and arrow within the unincorporated area of the county within 1,000 feet of any residence, place of worship, business or public meeting place; except, that this section shall not apply to any law enforcement officer while in the discharge of his official duties, nor to any county animal control officer as provided below, norto any personhunting upon his own property or the premises of another with the owner's written consent in that area of the county zoned for agriculture by a zoning ordinance, order or resolution of the board of commissioners; provided that such person hunting on the premises of another shall at all times have the written permission of the owner of such property on his person.

(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit events
commonly known as turkey shoots; provided, that before any turkey
shoot may be held within the unincorporated area of the county, a
permit therefor shall be acquired by the sponsoring entity. The permit
shall be issued by the director of community development for no fee;
provided that:

(1) The sponsoring organization is charitable or nonprofit.

(2) The applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the director of
community development that it has made adequate provisions for and
will provide for the safety of all participants and for members of the
public at large.

(3) No sponsoring organization may hold more than three turkey
shoots in any calendar year.

(4) Permits issued under this section shall be valid for 30 days from
issuance.
(c) Clayton County animal control officers are authorized to possess
and use self contained, compressed air powered rifles issued by the
County for the specific intended purpose of sedation and capture of
animals."

Section 2. All laws, ordinances and resolutions, or parts thereof, which conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.---

Section 3. If any part of this Ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect the remainder of this enactment, and such remainder shall remain in full force and effect.

Section 4. This Ordinance shall become effective upon its approval by the
Board of Commissioners.
SO ORDAINED, this the 20th day of March, 2007.
CLAYTON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

Eldrin Bell - Chairman
Sonna Singleton -Vice Chairwoman
Virginia Burton Gray - Commissioner
Wole Ralph - Commissioner
Michael Edmondson - Commissioner

www.claytoncountyga.gov/pdfs/commissioners/resolutions/2007-56.pdf

[Oscar Knight]

Gunfire Locator Systems

Sensing method

Gunshot location systems generally require one or more sensing modalities to detect either the fact that a weapon has been fired or to detect the projectile fired by the weapon. To date, only sound and visual or infrared light have successfully been used as sensing technologies. Both applications can be implemented to detect gunfire under static and dynamic conditions. Most police related systems can be permanently mounted, mapped and correlated as the sensors remain in place for long periods. Military and SWAT actions, on the other hand, operate in more dynamic environments requiring a fast setup time or a capability to operate while the sensors are on move.

Acoustic

Acoustic systems "listen" either for the bullet bow shockwave (the sound either of the projectile or bullet as it passes through the air), the sound of the muzzle blast of the weapon when it fires the projectile, or a combination of both.

Due to their ability to sense at great distances, to sense in a non line-of-sight manner, and the relatively low bandwidth required for transmitting sensor telemetry data, systems deployed for law enforcement, public safety and homeland security in the United States have primarily been based on acoustic techniques.

Acoustic-only based systems typically generate their alerts a few seconds slower than optical sensing systems because they rely on the propagation of sound waves. Therefore the sound reaching a sensor 1 mile from its origin will take almost 5 seconds. A few seconds to accommodate pickup from distant sensors and to discern the number of rounds fired, often an indicator of incident severity, are both tolerable and a drastic improvement for typical police dispatching scenarios when compared against the several minutes that elapse from when an actual discharge occurs to the cumulative time of several minutes that pass when a person decides to place a 9-1-1 call and that information is captured, processed, and dispatched to patrol officers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfire_locator

[Oscar Knight]

......Clayton County created a county ordinance that it is against the Law to discharge a firearm in this county.

....Why create these Laws if no intentions are place into enforcing this law ?

...I wonder how many Law Enforcement Agencies, in this county, has these "Gunfire Locator Systems" ?

.....From what I have been hearing,with my own ears, probably none

[Oscar Knight]

.......This County Ordinance NO. 2007 -56, reminds me of our Gun Control Laws :

Joe Biden :“We need more gun laws because we don’t have time to enforce the ones we have.”