A Pennsylvania man fired two bullets at his neighbor’s home on Friday and later told police that was the only way he knew how to unload a gun, according to the Bucks County Courier Times.
A Middletown, Pa. resident heard gunshots outside of her home in Friday afternoon. She then discovered that a window on her porch door was shattered, according to the Courier Times.
She then saw a man fire a gun in the direction of her home and run back into his house, police said.
Police inspected her home and then the home of George Byrd IV. They found two bullet holes in the fence separating Byrd’s home from that of his neighbor.
When questioned by police, Byrd at first denied that he knew anything about the gunshots. Police then found multiple guns and rounds of ammunition in Byrd’s home.
Byrd later told a judge that he fired the gun into the ground because he was unfamiliar with guns and didn’t know how else to unload one, according to the Courier Times.
Byrd was convicted of burglary as a juvenile, which would have prohibited him from owning a gun.
He was charged with discharging a firearm into an occupied structure and for unlawfully possessing a firearm.
So much for the idea that current gun safety regulations are sufficient.
I hope they took all his guns away from him. That man is too ignorant to be in the same room with a gun let alone hold one.
The article states he was a convicted burglar, so he shouldn’t have had possession of any weapons to begin with.
They ask a bunch of questions when you buy a gun, things about felonies and adjudicated mental illness and such. But they don’t ask whether you’re such an astonishingly stupid s.o.b. that people literally cannot believe that you do the things you do. I suppose they should, though.
It’s good to know that the NRA will defend, to my death, the right of such people to own guns.