After a few years living in NH and thinking I understood the law, I re-read NH RSA's 207:3-a, 207:3-c, and 644:13 and the definition of a "Compact Area" of a city or town is driving me crazy.
"(c) Any contiguous area containing 6 or more buildings which are used as either part- time or permanent dwellings and the spaces between them where each such building is within 300 feet of at least one of the others, plus a perimeter 300 feet wide around all the buildings in such area."
I understand what they were trying to do when they defined this, but it doesn't always make any sense. Five houses clustered very close together would not be a compact area and any of the homeowners could shoot to their heart's content. However, six or more houses spread out in a long line, each within 300' of the next is a compact area and nobody can shoot within a 300' bubble of their own dwelling. In the screenshot I attached, house # 1 is at the end of a dead end but within 300' of house# 2 and so on down the line. This is a compact area and despite the fact that house 1 has a perfect, safe little range out back, he can't shoot within 300' of his own house. Why do houses way down the street or across the street from the direction of shooting factor into this at all?