{"id":932750,"date":"2026-10-14T13:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932750\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T13:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:26:25","slug":"brampton-man-charged-following-unsafe-discharge-of-firearms-reports-in-lake-of-bays-my-muskoka-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932750\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton man charged following unsafe discharge of firearms reports in Lake of Bays : My Muskoka Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 45-year-old from Brampton has been charged following complaints regarding the unsafe discharge of firearms on public land in Lake of Bays.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, on Sept. 5 at about 6 p.m., Huntsville OPP officers responded to multiple complaints about the unsafe discharge of firearms around OFSC Trail 76.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were advised that individuals were shooting rifles and handguns and operating a skeet thrower near a nearby family cabin.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, officers identified a rifle classified as a prohibited firearm under federal regulations. The rifle remains eligible for the federal firearm amnesty program until Oct. 30.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, a 45-year-old from Brampton was charged with possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm and storing a firearm or restricted weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The accused is slated to appear in court on Nov. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old from Brampton has been charged following complaints regarding the unsafe discharge of firearms on public land&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48,97420,247194,60604,319923],"class_list":["post-932750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charged","tag-discharge","tag-firearms","tag-lake-of-bays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}