Paper plates are a bad idea at an indoor range because your POA is too close to the target hanger.

Shoot long enough and you will hit the target hanger and you will be embarrassed when you have to explain to the range staff that you broke their stuff because you are a cheap bastard.

Hopefully that is as bad as it gets and you don't get a ricochet that hurts someone.

I don't use targets printed on 8½ x 11" paper at indoor ranges for the same reason.

Sure. But the simple workaround -- it's the standard at BPR -- is to tape the target to a large piece of cardboard, setting it at shoulder height. As long as it's about shoulder-height, you can use as small a target as you want, and if you can keep the rounds on the cardboard -- and away from the hangar -- you're fine.

The best place to get targets locally is LE Targets, this is where Bill's gets their targets adn they have no minimum order.

www.letargets.com

they are up in circle pines, you can order and pick up at their will call.

That only works if the target hanger clips are new and have the strength to hold the cardboard. In my experience, some doofus has usually shot the clips and they are bent and won't hold the cardboard very well and it comes loose after a few strings and falls to the floor beyond your reach.

624.714 says "contained in a closed and fastened case, gunbox, or securely tied package"

97B.045 is more explicit: "in a gun case expressly made to contain a firearm, and the case fully encloses the firearm by being zipped, snapped, buckled, tied, or otherwise fastened, and without any portion of the firearm exposed"

In this case, the court says that since the 624.714 doesn't define the terms, the district court was quite proper in looking to 97B.045 for a definition.

But this case says that a holster is a proper case within the meaning of 624.714.

In my mind, the typical holster would not meet the standards of 97B.045, so the two decisions are contradictory. The only conclusion I can draw is to be careful about how fine a point you draw, when you're trying to draw logical conclusions about the law.

97A.021 CONSTRUCTION.
Subdivision 1.Code of Criminal Procedure.

A provision of the game and fish laws that is inconsistent with the Code of Criminal Procedure or of penal law is only effective under the game and fish laws.

That only works if the target hanger clips are new and have the strength to hold the cardboard. In my experience, some doofus has usually shot the clips and they are bent and won't hold the cardboard very well and it comes loose after a few strings and falls to the floor beyond your reach.

They are not contradictory. The first looked to 97B.045 for a definition of "unloaded," since 624.714 didn't have one.

The second case used a VERY loose interpretation of "cased" from 624.714.

It's black letter law that in the case of a contradiction between criminal code and hunting laws, criminal code wins.

Sure. But the simple workaround -- it's the standard at BPR -- is to tape the target to a large piece of cardboard, setting it at shoulder height. As long as it's about shoulder-height, you can use as small a target as you want, and if you can keep the rounds on the cardboard -- and away from the hangar -- you're fine.