There is now a Petition on "We The People" to Ban Celebratory Gun Fire.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...
The Petition was created after Aaliyah Boyer, a 10 year old girl living in Cecil County Maryland was killed by celebratory gun fire.
According to The Baltimore Sun,
Crystal Blackburn, the mother of Aaliyah Boyer, who was killed when Cecil County Sheriff's officials said a bullet fell from the sky and struck her on the top of her head, is calling on the public to sign a petition at aaliyahboyer.com.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/...
http://aaliyahboyer.com
in many metropolitan areas, shooting a gun into the air, while prohibited, only results in a misdemeanor upon conviction. . . .
In more rural areas, including where Aaliyah was killed, there is no prohibition at all. Boyer was struck while watching fireworks just after midnight outside her grandparents' home, which is near Elkton, a town about an hour northeast of Baltimore.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/...
Such incidents of "celebratory gunfire" causing injury or death are not uncommon in the United States, according to Joseph Vince, director of Mount St. Mary's University's criminal justice program and a former chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' crime gun analysis branch. . . .
"This is a plague in the United States, especially on New Year's Eve," Vince said. "There are so many people who are shot or killed because people fire their firearms into the air. If you fire a projectile into the air, it's going to come down."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/...
I see no reason why this type of activity should be legal. There is absolutely no reason why a 10 year old girl's life should have been cut short. Please sign the White House Petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...
More than 99,000 signatures are needed to trigger a response from the White House.