Quote:
Originally Posted by Donkey Oatey
Not sure what your training is in reading and interpreting laws is , but respectfully you are wrong on all accounts.
Wording matters, punctuation matters and definitions matter. What doesn't matter is title of a part. Doesn't form part of the charge and you don't have to meet the elements of a title, but you do have to meet the elements of the offence. In this case the elements are:
No person (have to prove person)
Shall discharge a weapon (here is where words matter, have to prove discharge and weapon and what is the definition of weapon?)
Or cause a projectile from a weapon (again definition matters, they didn't say firearm and bullet)
Within 200yrds of an occupied building. (Not just where the projectile was fired from but where it goes too)
Sorry they have to prove everything in the section, has nothing to do with title, just like you don't have to be hunting to be charged under the Wildlife Act.
|
That is excellent. So the next time the neighbor's kids are having a nerf gun fight in the backyard and being too loud, you can either call bylaw for a noise complaint or Fish and Wildlife to have them charges under section 52 of the Wildlife Act.
You see those dangerous nerf guns fit the definition of a "Weapon" under the Wildlife Act. It would be completely illegal for them to be firing them in the backyard without your permission, since your house is only 85 yards away.
(kk) “weapon” means a firearm or any other device that
propels a projectile by means of an explosion, spring, air,
gas, string, wire or elastic material or any combination of
those things;
If Fish and Wildlife doesn't want to attend or refuses to charge... no worries, you can head to your local court house and swear an Information since you can provide the evidence and swear that the elements of the offence are met. I am sure the court house will promptly issue summons for each of those harden criminals.
Sounds kinda ridiculous when you say it out loud, now doesn't it?