ORIGINAL: Flix
This about as off topic as could be. That being said, this just screams "intervention!"
Shotgun man, you have posted questions on a public forum asking for "legal advice" of how you could "legally" shoot or shoot at a couple of kids engaging in stupid pranks that only amount to property crimes/malicious mischief. Don't you understand that any action you take now will have the added component of premeditation? Let law enforcement know that your mother is being subjected to repeated vandalism/harassment/intimidation, etc. and ask them what they can do and what you can do. If they are unwilling or unable to act, you may want to get their behavior on tape. If you have a trail camera, maybe you can set it up to get usable shots of their faces or license plates. This may assist LE in prosecuting criminally, and it may assist you in bringing a civil action. (Tresspass, Destruction of Personal Property, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, etc, depending on your state's tort law.)
ORIGINAL: StrutNtom
Ok fellas this thread has gone long enough w/o someone asking... Are you crazy?
Shotgun man...
If you shoot at someone for the reasons you described. You will go to prison. If you shoot someone and kill them with handloaded or "altered" rounds, you will go to jail and probably get more time. Look it up. Theres a documented count case that went all the way to the supreme court where a guy shot and killed someone breaking into his house, but b/c he used "hot" handloaded rounds he was sentenced to prison.
I am not a lawyer, but I do work with the Federal Bureau of Prisons so theres no case I haven't "heard". This is 2007 fellas, not the 1800s.
StrutNtom, I'd appreciate a cite to that case. As presented, it doesn't pass the smell test. I'd love to read the opinion.
I do not remember where I found it. Do some research on google. If I can remember correctly....A guy broke into the man's house. He killed the guy. Upon legal action taken by the dead guy's family...the man was found to reload his own rounds. The defense got a jury to beleive that he loaded them "hot"...and b/c they were hot that they were indeed "meant to kill".
-- FLIX