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CURRENT ORDINANCE <br /> <br /> Sec. 46-2. Use of firearms. <br /> <br /> (al It shall be unlawful for any person to use <br /> and discharge any fLrearm, BB gun, or air com- <br /> pression gun of any kind, nature, make, or de- <br /> scription within a distance of 500 yards of any <br /> business or residential district in the county sit- <br /> uated outside the corporate limits of any and all <br /> municipalities in the codnty. <br /> <br /> Co) A business or residential district within the <br />meaning of this section shall be that territory con- <br />tinuous to a street or highway where 75 percent <br />or more of the frontage thereon for a distance of <br />300 feet or more is mainly occupied by dwellings <br />or by dwellings and buildings in use for business <br />purposes. <br /> <br /> (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed so <br />as to prohibit any person from discharging any <br />firearm in protection of his person, family, guests, <br />or property. <br /> <br /> (d) Any person violating the provisions of this <br />section shall, upon conviction thereof, be pun- <br />ished in accordance with sectio.n 1-7. <br />(Ord. of 7-3-67, §§ 1-4) <br /> Cross reference~-Possession, transportation and ~ransfer <br />of dangerous weapons during state of emergency., § 22.58; iqre- <br />arms in pazks prohibited, § 50-6. <br />Special acts reference-Centerfire rifles, pt. I, art. VII. <br />State law references-Authority to regulate, restric~ or <br />prohibit the dischar~ of flrearms, G.S. 153A. 129; authority to <br />regulate the use of pellet guns, G.$. 153A-130. <br /> <br /> <br />