Disparo de armas de fuego hacia edificios y vehículos en Nevada

Explicación Simple

Disparar un arma hacia un edificio o vehículo es muy serio. Si lo haces y hay personas dentro, podrías ir a prisión por mucho tiempo.

Es como lanzar una piedra a una ventana. Si la ventana está vacía, solo causarás daño, pero si hay alguien adentro, podrías lastimarlo gravemente.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan está en una pelea con su vecino y, en un arranque de ira, dispara su arma hacia la casa del vecino. Como la casa estaba ocupada, Juan podría enfrentar una pena de prisión de entre 1 y 10 años.

Penalidades

Si disparas a un lugar vacío, es un delito menor; si hay personas, es un delito grave con prisión de 1 a 10 años.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

firearm at or into structure, vehicle, aircraft or NRS202.285Discharging firearm at or into structure, vehicle, aircraft or watercraft; penalties. 1.  A person who willfully and maliciously discharges a firearm at or into any house, room, apartment, tenement, shop, warehouse, store, mill, barn, stable, outhouse or other building, tent, vessel, aircraft, vehicle, vehicle trailer, semitrailer or house trailer, railroad locomotive, car or tender: (a) If it has been abandoned, is guilty of a misdemeanor unless a greater penalty is provided inNRS 202.287. (b) If it is occupied, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 10 years, or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both fine and imprisonment. 2.  Whenever a firearm is so discharged at or into any vessel, aircraft, vehicle, vehicle trailer, semitrailer or house trailer, railroad locomotive, car or tender, in motion or at rest, and it cannot with reasonable certainty be ascertained in what county the crime was committed, the offender may be arrested and tried in any county through which the vessel, aircraft, vehicle, vehicle trailer, semitrailer or house trailer, locomotive or railroad car may have run on the trip during which the firearm was discharged at or into it. (Added to NRS by1979, 157; A1989, 1240;1995, 1206;2019, 231)