Repelling animals from gardens

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Originally Posted by JScott

Yeah, but we went through this whole thing before, and I accidentally started a huge controversy when I told what I thought was just a funny story about trying to doing the right thing and having it come back and bit me in the ass (There was a nuisance skunk that used to hang out in my back yard and under the crawl space in my house, so one night when I saw him in the yard, I shot him. Then when the police came around saying they had reports of shots fired, and did I know anything about that, I could have just said, "Geel, officer, I heard a noise, I'm not sure if it was a gun or not, I just don't know", but instead I said, "Yes, I shot a skunk that keeps spraying my dog in the backyard," and then he wrote me a 200 dollar ticket for discharging a firearm in a residential area.)

Modern air rifles are very powerful, and much quieter than a firearm. And at least at the federal level they're not defined as a firearm, and not subject to restrictions placed on firearms. That does vary from state to state.