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People living along rivers hear gunshots
By MARY PEREZ
meperez@sunherald.com
BILOXI — Some residents living along the Biloxi and Tchoutacabouffa rivers can hear gunfire within the city limits and want it stopped.
But one gun law doesn’t necessarily fit all situations in Biloxi, the council heard at Tuesday’s meeting.
“It’s really dangerous,” said Sam LaRosa, who said people are shooting near his home a half-hour before daylight and he can hear pellets hitting the roof.
He asked Council Member Lucy Denton to introduce a measure that ensures the city’s firearms ordinance is enforced.
The first reading of the amendment to the firearms ordinance was pulled off Tuesday’s council agenda.
Council vice president Ed Gemmill said the proposal is still being drafted.
“If you get too strict it’s not good,” said Billy Broadus, who owns more than 300 acres south of Woolmarket Road.
He said there is a big difference between downtown Biloxi and the areas out in the far reaches of the city.
People in the Woolmarket area need guns for protection against coyotes, cottonmouth snakes and also vagrants he said “run up and down the interstate.”
He found one homeless man dead on his property, he told them.
“Keep these sort of things in mind when you start fooling with these rules and regulations,” Broadus said.
Denton said several people who live along the river came to her with their complaints about gunfire and flying pellets.
“It’s just a safety issue,” she said, and she thinks people don’t realize they are in the city when they start hunting.
In other action the council:
n Swapped land with the Grand Casino Biloxi, exchanging a parcel behind the Grand’s parking garage for property adjacent to the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum.
n Approved spending nearly $10,000 for two Jaws of Life for the Biloxi Fire Department.
n Authorized Watermark Design Group to do the architectural work to harden and wind-retrofit the city’s Emergency Operations Center/Public Safety Complex.
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