City investigating pellet-gun shooting of gophers by contractor at Trump Golf Club in California

[kpete]

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Taking aim: gophers in cross hairs at

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At Trump National, the rifleman — ostensibly a groundskeeper — was ushered around the 18-hole course in a golf cart as he took aim at various points. A gopher or gophers were the likely target because the critters often wreak havoc on golf courses.

But it’s not clear what ammunition was fired, what safety precautions course officials took or whether staff should have been allowed to heft such firepower against a gopher in the first place.

The city of Rancho Palos Verdes prohibits firing weapons inside city limits. According to city code, it is illegal for anyone to discharge any “gun, revolver, pistol, firearm, spring gun, air gun, sling, slingshot” or other contraption meant to shoot a projectile or ammunition.

Another section of city code allows shotguns to be fired, but only to protect agricultural crops, and that requires a special permit from the city. No such permit has been issued in roughly a decade, said Deputy Planning Director So Kim.


http://www.dailybreeze.com/environment-and-nature/20170801/taking-aim-gophers-in-cross-hairs-at-trump-national-golf-club-in-rancho-palos-verdes

[Hoyt]

1. Where's Bill Murray?

[dawg]

2. Finally ...

we have sufficient grounds for impeachment.

[bluedigger]

3. That's how they do it at the local cemetery here, too.

Nice and quiet. The city needs to update their codes.

[Kleveland]

4. If it were not HIS golf course...

I would be with the greens keeper's desire to eradicate those pests!

We for instance have a terrible ground hog problem, and it is causing a lot of destruction to plants and property.
The city is doing little to help alleviate the problem.

We live in a populated suburb, where only drive ways separate the houses, and I do not believe there is any ordinance forbidding air guns.

As far as HIS golf course, I would like to see it be wrecked by any force of nature!

Praying for a sinkhole....

[Volaris]

5. My sister would sit outside with a low-power pelletgun and a glass of wine

On her days off, to keep the damn rabbits out of her garden. BBs=DRT, and she just wanted enough of a sting on their back leg for them to know to go eat something else..it took about a month of saturdays, but the rabbits got the idea=)