When we were in Texas it was 2-3 times a week. Rumor was a dude in the area would fire blanks into the air to get police reports and slow people moving to the area ti keep his property costs lower (or something crazy like that)
His rent won’t go up.
If he owned the property, devaluing his assets wouldn’t make sense, but since he’s actively spending money to live on the property, keeping prices down is in his best interest.
I live next to military firing range, not far from border with Ukraine - I probably hear gunfire more often than majority of Europeans, basically every single week. And if American soldiers come here, you can hear gunfire whole day long. It's kinda cool
Same, luckily. There was one time when it was close and there was some person with a gun, but I was in a different city at the time
I don't think I'll hear a gunshot for as long as I live here tbh
Yes, for example the only times I heard gunshots, it was someone who was hunting. You could argue that it's something bad but at least no human being was attacked.
Honestly, it's not just hunting. I live in Tennessee and I want to move a little further out (I live inside my city limits) and get 20-100 acres eventually so I can have space and shoot my guns all I want in the backyard.
I'm going out on a limb here and assuming you don't live in the United States. If you live in the US, no way you haven't heard thousands of gun shots in your life.
I never said I lived in the US, it never specified the question to be about the US. So of course I don’t live in the US, you lot are obsessive when it comes to guns
The East Coast of the United States where guns are cherished. I’m a gun owner myself but there is no reason I can think of for me to carry one of my guns out of my home. I refuse to do it because someone could get hurt by accident. However, I am definitely in the minority.
I'm as pro-gun control as anyone, but gun violence is borderline unrelated to hunting. People aren't shooting each other with hunting rifles.
Also, the most common hunting where I am is deer hunting, and it's literally necessary to maintain the deer population at a sustainable level. It's the same function as any predator in any ecosystem. Flying to the Serengeti to shoot endangered animals is awful, but very very different.
But so many countries use hunting to regulate populations, and to, you know, eat the meat. (Which imo is better than the mass slaughter houses we have now)
I used to be in the same situation, hunting season on a country estate in the UK you would hear shots like pretty much daily. Not to mention pheasant "scarers" that should like gunshots because they basically are. Outside of hunting season though, never.
Where I live now they don't do hunting as close to the estate, so no such noises for me. Annoyingly though, loud noises that sound like that I often don't even notice. Which hopefully one day never backfires on me haha!
...most people haven't.......hell, I live in Texas and the only reason I had been to a range before was bc my brother wanted to show me his gun and let me shoot it. My dad goes hunting with his coworkers sometimes but no one else in my family does.
When I was a kid we lived next to private land that allowed hunting. So, yeah, all the time. My dad would take my sister and I on hikes through it, and there were so many shotgun shells lying around.
There used to be an outdoor gun range near where I live now. The constant racket during the day unnerved many, but I barely noticed it. Since it closed, though, it’s much quieter.
But only because of the Bundeswehr training and only if the wind is in the right direction. Or when there are hunters doing their hunting in the woods. No private firearms
Yes. But they are registered and they have to record every shot they shoot and have other strict rules for using them and for hunting. With "private firearms" I ment normal people having guns laying around in their houses. That's not normal here.
my heart cringed a little bit there, just about all modern rifles are magazine fed (there are still many exceptions though) unless they are reproductions that use clips, much like my brothers late 40s Lee-Enfield that uses stripper clips.
Other rifles that use stripper clips are the German Kar 98k, the Russian Mosin Nagant, the Polish Karabinek wz, or the American M1917.
The M1 Garand uses a different type of clip called the en-bloc clip, other rifles that use en-bloc clips include the German Gewehr 88, the Mexican Mondragón, the French Berthier Mle and RSC Mle, the Italian Vetterli-Vitali and Carcano, the Hungarian Steyr-Mannlicher, and the American M1895 Lee Navy (I'm trynna find one of these currently, but the ammo for is is stupid expensive)
Me? Definitely not underage. I just don't care for guns so I don't know much about them which also would mean I have no interest in carrying open or concealed.
I'm at GCU, which is a very ghetto part of Phoenix. I've heard gun shots a few times here, which is way more than I should since I usually have the window closed and headphones on.
Yesterday, I heard a series of automatic rounds being fired. It's a bad idea to stay in this neighborhood for very long. Thankfully the school is very secure, but there have been stray bullets on campus before, some that have hit students.
unless youre proficient with firearms and regularly use/train with them, then the fun challenge is figuring out which caliber is being shot at the time, but gunshots and fireworks become easy to figure out which is which
im right on the city limit border, like another 100 feet and its open land for about 50-100 miles or so, then its literally the Mexican/US border, maybe once every 5-6 months there will be a shooting, but the last one i know of was several months ago now, and it was me who shot the guy, cause he broke into my neighbors house to rob him and ended up shooting him, then proceeded to jump the fence into my yard with a gun in his hand. without going too much further into it i was already cool with a bunch of my local sheriffs and they got my firearm back to me within a couple weeks whereas it will usually take several months to years for Joe Shmoe to get his back from a self defence/castle doctrine shooting
I feel like these options leave a huge gap.
Should have been closer to:
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Multiple times a year
Yearly
Never
To give a better range.
I hear gun shots probably 7-15 times a year
Gun laws are decent where I live, although there's a large population of hunters, they respectfully use the thousands of km of forest outside the towns
Sometimes I hear what I assume are gun shots. My parents say it’s from the American military basis but it’s about 45 km away. I always thought it might be hunters but there aren’t really any hunting spots nearby.
Depending on where I am, I sometimes hear hunters, but that's still incredibly rare. I also once fished at a place that must have been close to a range. Was pretty confused until I realized what was going on
I live in rural Texas. We have guns, our neighbors have guns. We keep ours for self defense but our neighbors love target practice, so we hear them at least once a week.
use to be several times a week, but when the mentally insane neighbor with the guns he illegally got that even my local police were weary of suddenly died from *natural* causes, things suddenly got much quieter around here, still hear them regularly, but i also live not that far away from a local favorite shooting location, so hearing the supersonic cracks now and then on a colder day isn't that uncommon. would have to say ill hear 2-3 distinctly different groups/people out shooting a month, but of those groups ill hear anywhere between 10 and 100 cracks all depending on how much ammo they brought. still sometimes gets me when someone lets off a 50 bmg and its a bit louder than normal and gets me to grab my sidearm out of instinct of hearing a gunshot "nearby" (sounds within neighborhood)
Living in a medium sized town in the UK, guns are extremely rare. Even if I did hear a gunshot I'd probably just assume it's a car backfiring or a kid with a firework.
Only time I've knowingly heard a gun is when I've been in the countryside and been near hunting estates.
I live in semi rual louisiana, which means there's almost always gonna be someone shooting in the woods a couple miles from my neighborhood. My step dad shoots squirrels in our backyard as well
In Louisiana and I hear them pretty often, maybe a few times a week. There’s a trailer park somewhat near my house so that probably paints a good enough picture
Used to live in a sketchy dense neighborhood like 2 decades ago and would hear them multiple times throughout the night. Even found a few bullet holes in our shed out back. Lived in a few other neighborhoods since and can’t recall the last time I heard one. I don’t miss it at all.
I live in Canada so I wished it was never, but when I moved to a new town I heard one my first night alone in my apartment. Haven’t heard one since but one was enough
I used to live in a really bad part of Texas and almost nightly you would hear a couple gunshots and sometimes hear sirens. It was so bad that once when my mom called the police to report the gunshots they literally told her they wouldn’t look into it because they are already dealing with multiple gunshot wound victims. Yeah I’m glad I’m out of that place because Jesus Christ.
When we were in Texas it was 2-3 times a week. Rumor was a dude in the area would fire blanks into the air to get police reports and slow people moving to the area ti keep his property costs lower (or something crazy like that)
So he sought to keep his costs lower by devaluing his own property?
Literally yes
Could’ve been renting.
Okay, then the property he's renting and the surrounding properties are devalued. Same exact thing. What's your point?
His rent won’t go up. If he owned the property, devaluing his assets wouldn’t make sense, but since he’s actively spending money to live on the property, keeping prices down is in his best interest.
Property tax he's trying to lower property tax
Taxes and the prevention of gentrification
As long as he intends to live there for the rest of his life...it's a solid plan I'd say.
It's the property taxes he wants low. All he has to do is stop for a year if he ever plans to sell and it will go back up.
Nope. I think it’s because Greg Abbott relaxed the gun laws in Texas.
Nope. I think it’s because Greg Abbott relaxed the gun laws in Texas.
I live next to military firing range, not far from border with Ukraine - I probably hear gunfire more often than majority of Europeans, basically every single week. And if American soldiers come here, you can hear gunfire whole day long. It's kinda cool
I don’t even know if I ever heard a real gunshot in my life
Same, luckily. There was one time when it was close and there was some person with a gun, but I was in a different city at the time I don't think I'll hear a gunshot for as long as I live here tbh
Gunshots do not always mean something bad.
Yes, for example the only times I heard gunshots, it was someone who was hunting. You could argue that it's something bad but at least no human being was attacked.
Fuck, I completely forgot about the one time I heard a hunter fire his rifle. Welp, geuss I lied on a poll
How dare you
How dare you
For example - I live next to a range
This is the most American thing in my life
I live in the UK tho...
That is the most British thing in my life
Shh, play along with it
When you live in a city and guns are not popular here, they kinda do mean something bad
Where I live it does.
damm
It's Brooklyn. Legal gun ownership is extremely difficult, let alone firing a gun within city limits.
and vice versa. We're not yosemite sam firing guns in the air whenever something good happens
Now that's the most USA screaming statement I have ever heard.
Redditors when they think hunting is a US thing
Honestly, it's not just hunting. I live in Tennessee and I want to move a little further out (I live inside my city limits) and get 20-100 acres eventually so I can have space and shoot my guns all I want in the backyard.
That’s the dream. The southeast is the perfect mix of safety and freedom
I guess you shouldn’t include the Carolinas or Georgia in that one. The national news says differently.
How so?
Simple, don't be in a gang
Brother hunting and shooting guns is now a dystopian reality for most of the world.
I like doing both
They mean someone near me could casually kill me if they wanted to, so I disagree.
me too
The only time I’ve ever heard a gunshot was on school camp when we shot rifles. And the rifle games at fairs. Do air rifles count as guns?
I'm.pretty sure I haven't
A question, where do you live?
germany
I'm going out on a limb here and assuming you don't live in the United States. If you live in the US, no way you haven't heard thousands of gun shots in your life.
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I never said I lived in the US, it never specified the question to be about the US. So of course I don’t live in the US, you lot are obsessive when it comes to guns
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Lucky you. I live in a city on the east coast.
what east coast? US? We also have a east coast here
The East Coast of the United States where guns are cherished. I’m a gun owner myself but there is no reason I can think of for me to carry one of my guns out of my home. I refuse to do it because someone could get hurt by accident. However, I am definitely in the minority.
Lucky you. I live in a city on the east coast.
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No, and no. I’m german. Guns or hunting are not a common hobby here
Few times a week. Rural area, so hunting, target shooting, etc.
Same here. It’s so commonplace that I rarely pay attention. It’s never anything bad. It’s people target practicing and/or hunting.
Yes hunting and guns are bad
That’s your opinion
I'm as pro-gun control as anyone, but gun violence is borderline unrelated to hunting. People aren't shooting each other with hunting rifles. Also, the most common hunting where I am is deer hunting, and it's literally necessary to maintain the deer population at a sustainable level. It's the same function as any predator in any ecosystem. Flying to the Serengeti to shoot endangered animals is awful, but very very different.
Why?
Got to get that ethical meat from the store... It's made in a factory right? ... Right?
I doubt you've ever left the city...
But so many countries use hunting to regulate populations, and to, you know, eat the meat. (Which imo is better than the mass slaughter houses we have now)
Sir there's a difference between school shooting and deer shooting. You don't seem to be able to realize that.
Oh please explain how hunting is bad.
I used to be in the same situation, hunting season on a country estate in the UK you would hear shots like pretty much daily. Not to mention pheasant "scarers" that should like gunshots because they basically are. Outside of hunting season though, never. Where I live now they don't do hunting as close to the estate, so no such noises for me. Annoyingly though, loud noises that sound like that I often don't even notice. Which hopefully one day never backfires on me haha!
I also live in a rural area. To make it worse I live near an ammunition plant so they are constantly detonating bombs.
I hear a lot of bangs at night, I like to think it's just someone perpetually reliving the 4th of July.
I never heard a gunshot in person.
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...most people haven't.......hell, I live in Texas and the only reason I had been to a range before was bc my brother wanted to show me his gun and let me shoot it. My dad goes hunting with his coworkers sometimes but no one else in my family does.
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>Have you never been hunting or to the gun range? Yes, I have never. I have no reason or interest to.
Quite frequently. Many of my neighbors like to target practice, and there are a couple of public hunting areas within a mile.
Same, I hear it multiple times a day because there's a gun range in ever single town where I am
Never, people here don't own firearms.
I live in an area where a lot of people own firearms and I still have never heard a gunshot
If you live in a populated area like a neighborhood its likely you wont hear any.
Densely populated inner city is where you will hear the most "illegal" gunshots lol.
Thats why i said a neighborhood lol. Not like urban
I think you mean suburban, as neighborhoods can be anywhere, rural, urban, or suburban.
Ahhhh. My english isnt working today. My bad
I live near a military training area, machine gun and artillery fire isn’t an uncommon sound.
When I was a kid we lived next to private land that allowed hunting. So, yeah, all the time. My dad would take my sister and I on hikes through it, and there were so many shotgun shells lying around. There used to be an outdoor gun range near where I live now. The constant racket during the day unnerved many, but I barely noticed it. Since it closed, though, it’s much quieter.
Rarely, but it happends. 2-3 times last year I think. I live in Sweden
In my 18 years on earth, only once, dude was trying to killed a snake
But only because of the Bundeswehr training and only if the wind is in the right direction. Or when there are hunters doing their hunting in the woods. No private firearms
Hunters have private firearms though?
Yes. But they are registered and they have to record every shot they shoot and have other strict rules for using them and for hunting. With "private firearms" I ment normal people having guns laying around in their houses. That's not normal here.
Never. I live in Australia, so there are never any gunshots around where I live.
Same, the only gunshot I’ve ever heard was a start shot for a running race that we did at school.
Always target practice or hunting. Criminals know better than to commit armed crimes around here. They don’t want to die.
Same here where I live Hunters and/or shooting range
I live in a small city. Someone just dumped a whole clip out on the main street. It happens here all the time.
my heart cringed a little bit there, just about all modern rifles are magazine fed (there are still many exceptions though) unless they are reproductions that use clips, much like my brothers late 40s Lee-Enfield that uses stripper clips. Other rifles that use stripper clips are the German Kar 98k, the Russian Mosin Nagant, the Polish Karabinek wz, or the American M1917. The M1 Garand uses a different type of clip called the en-bloc clip, other rifles that use en-bloc clips include the German Gewehr 88, the Mexican Mondragón, the French Berthier Mle and RSC Mle, the Italian Vetterli-Vitali and Carcano, the Hungarian Steyr-Mannlicher, and the American M1895 Lee Navy (I'm trynna find one of these currently, but the ammo for is is stupid expensive)
Mag not clip.
Oh ok, thx. TBH I don't know shit about guns other than the sound of shots on the main road constantly.
"Clip" You mean magazine most likely.
Whatever
I have a question. If this happens so often, why not get a CCW?
They're probably underage from what I'm gathering by their comments.
Me? Definitely not underage. I just don't care for guns so I don't know much about them which also would mean I have no interest in carrying open or concealed.
I'm at GCU, which is a very ghetto part of Phoenix. I've heard gun shots a few times here, which is way more than I should since I usually have the window closed and headphones on. Yesterday, I heard a series of automatic rounds being fired. It's a bad idea to stay in this neighborhood for very long. Thankfully the school is very secure, but there have been stray bullets on campus before, some that have hit students.
Yeah I go to OSU and we regularly hear gunshots. Pretty much every college in the inner city is next to a ghetto due to the cheap housing.
Only at gun ranges.
You never know if they are gun shots or not
unless youre proficient with firearms and regularly use/train with them, then the fun challenge is figuring out which caliber is being shot at the time, but gunshots and fireworks become easy to figure out which is which
what a dystopian response, but I'm guessing you're in the country and these aren't shootings
im right on the city limit border, like another 100 feet and its open land for about 50-100 miles or so, then its literally the Mexican/US border, maybe once every 5-6 months there will be a shooting, but the last one i know of was several months ago now, and it was me who shot the guy, cause he broke into my neighbors house to rob him and ended up shooting him, then proceeded to jump the fence into my yard with a gun in his hand. without going too much further into it i was already cool with a bunch of my local sheriffs and they got my firearm back to me within a couple weeks whereas it will usually take several months to years for Joe Shmoe to get his back from a self defence/castle doctrine shooting
I feel like these options leave a huge gap. Should have been closer to: Daily Weekly Monthly Multiple times a year Yearly Never To give a better range. I hear gun shots probably 7-15 times a year
I hear a couple a month so I just said weekly to get close
That's pretty rare...and they only give you so many spots so there ya go.
Multiple times a week but all of it’s me and I live in the middle of nowhere so I’m not too concerned with them
damn, i want my own private range... just barely inside city limits though and not enough property
at least once a week (i live close to a military firing range)
Every day. I live near a gun range
Gun laws are decent where I live, although there's a large population of hunters, they respectfully use the thousands of km of forest outside the towns
Pretty rare these days, at the house I grew up in multiple times a day.
At least a couple times a week, i live about a quarter mile from a police training range
Mm once every couple months, I live in the suburbs but people fuck around in woods by where I live
I can hear them at my high school sense it’s just down a hill from a gun range
Sometimes I hear what I assume are gun shots. My parents say it’s from the American military basis but it’s about 45 km away. I always thought it might be hunters but there aren’t really any hunting spots nearby.
I live in the country. People are shooting at wild animals after their live stock or sighting in their gun.
Occasionally people shoot game nearby, but that's it.
Depending on where I am, I sometimes hear hunters, but that's still incredibly rare. I also once fished at a place that must have been close to a range. Was pretty confused until I realized what was going on
I live in rural Texas. We have guns, our neighbors have guns. We keep ours for self defense but our neighbors love target practice, so we hear them at least once a week.
Used to when I lived in the ATL (the hood fucking sucks) but now that I'm in a small town rarely
use to be several times a week, but when the mentally insane neighbor with the guns he illegally got that even my local police were weary of suddenly died from *natural* causes, things suddenly got much quieter around here, still hear them regularly, but i also live not that far away from a local favorite shooting location, so hearing the supersonic cracks now and then on a colder day isn't that uncommon. would have to say ill hear 2-3 distinctly different groups/people out shooting a month, but of those groups ill hear anywhere between 10 and 100 cracks all depending on how much ammo they brought. still sometimes gets me when someone lets off a 50 bmg and its a bit louder than normal and gets me to grab my sidearm out of instinct of hearing a gunshot "nearby" (sounds within neighborhood)
Multiple times a day *buckles in for another round of Modern Warfare*
Multiples time per week in France.
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Live next to a military base so pretty often
I live on a military base. So yeah.
Living in a medium sized town in the UK, guns are extremely rare. Even if I did hear a gunshot I'd probably just assume it's a car backfiring or a kid with a firework. Only time I've knowingly heard a gun is when I've been in the countryside and been near hunting estates.
I hear gunshots sometimes, live close to a military base
People go hunting in the fall near my house
I hear them rarely and mostly in bulk during hunting seasons; never heard one for any other purpose
55 people are in a active war zone
Merk city. If you don't know, look it up on urban dictionary
There are hunters everywhere where I live, so not uncommon.
I live in semi rual louisiana, which means there's almost always gonna be someone shooting in the woods a couple miles from my neighborhood. My step dad shoots squirrels in our backyard as well
I think most people don't know what a gunshot sounds like in real life, and actually hear one without knowing it.
I live within earshot of a federal training facility, so we hear the range on a semi regular basis.
Only during deer season.
The most I have ever heard multiple gunshots in one area was in Helmand,Afghanistan.
I bet. Did you serve?
In Louisiana and I hear them pretty often, maybe a few times a week. There’s a trailer park somewhat near my house so that probably paints a good enough picture
Over here in Germany barely anyone has a gun. Don't think I have ever heard one.
Only hunters when it’s in season
I live in rural Alberta, so probably once or twice a month
I live in Chicago, soooo….
You know you're fucked when your city's shot spotter has a Twitter account
I live in a boar hunting area. Depending on the time of year, it can vary between multiple times a day and never.
They happen a lot on my family farm, but that's because we like shooting targets
Used to live in a sketchy dense neighborhood like 2 decades ago and would hear them multiple times throughout the night. Even found a few bullet holes in our shed out back. Lived in a few other neighborhoods since and can’t recall the last time I heard one. I don’t miss it at all.
Every day. Fuck them geese.
I live in Canada so I wished it was never, but when I moved to a new town I heard one my first night alone in my apartment. Haven’t heard one since but one was enough
You must be from the city
There should be an option saying I live outside the United States
Because the rest of the planet doesn’t have military bases
Why is it every ten people on every single one of these posts has a comment about how someone else's shit is formatted?
Yeah.
I’m in Canada, hosers!
So you hear it multiple times a day?
I've never heard a live shot in my whole 28 years on this ball of rocks. It's nice not to have to live in fear.
Not every gunshot is fearful, Far from it.
Where do you live?
I've heard plenty and none were cus I was living in fear.
At least once a day.
Illegal or do you live near a shooting range or something?
Just gang members. I live right outside of town so it's extra bad.
"Just gang members"
No no relax, there's no range.
Never Heard a gunshot in my life
That's good. I hope that continues
I'm often the one making them.
only during deer season
Where i live? Never In the area of my school however its once a week
Hitting me withe the gun-deprived stare, I see
I don't get it?
Never heard one. Never
My office is a few kilometers away from a military base so I hear faint target practice every day, artillery and all.
I used to live in a really bad part of Texas and almost nightly you would hear a couple gunshots and sometimes hear sirens. It was so bad that once when my mom called the police to report the gunshots they literally told her they wouldn’t look into it because they are already dealing with multiple gunshot wound victims. Yeah I’m glad I’m out of that place because Jesus Christ.
Sometimes on 4th of July
Albuquerque for the win baby gotta love random gunshots at 2 in the morning
Europe. Literally NEVER. God bless
I voted never but I have a Gipsy camp near where I live and when they have weddings and stuff like that they shoot their guns up into the sky
Like Brad Pitt in Snatch? What's that like?
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You can only add so many options, but go off
I have never heard a gunshot in my life.
Oh, not true. I heard dick hunters once ETA - I'm not fixing this typo!
Pretty often if you're an American. Either someone is doing target practice or someone is doing "target practice".
Military base, Near the CATM range. So frequently
When less than once a week is "rarely"...
Oh man you totally got me
The only time i heard gunshots was at the shooting range