I live in a very well-to-do area (I am the sore thumb there), and strangely, that is all you hear. It is accepted though. Apparently the yuppies that live around me LOVE weapons and you hear them fairly normally. Lots of land so they just shoot on their property. Plus, just 3 miles down the road from me there is the range I frequent, so all day long on weekends you can hear heavy caliber rounds in the distance. Kinda nice really since most other places I have lived (even not so nice areas), I was the bad guy for owning weapons.

Pretty normal to hear automatic gunfire and see random tracer fire on 4th of July. Pretty idiotic really since what goes up, must come down. :\

Accepted I say, but I can also guarantee that the majority of these morons don't have the common knowledge of ownership, control, and maintenance, so it is pretty scary too.