Been following this "discussion" but I've been preoccupied elsewhere. How's this for a compromise?
No regulations for leaf blowers, chain saws, chipper/shredders, loud engines of any kind (motorcycles, cars, dirt bikes, dirt track racing cars [my neighbor across the gully and down the hill builds and tests the latter, of an evening], etc.)
As long as I have the right to shoot, with an accurate firearm, any of the former from the hands of any operator who is wielding one at a time I find irritating, and or deleterious to my health, as long as I only disable the engine, two stroke or otherwise. And I otherwise harm NO ONE.
How's that for defending FREEDOM!!! And opposing oppressive government?
Seems fair to me. You insert your noise into my space. I ask you to quit it. You do not comply. I end the penetrating abusive threat to my well-being and otherwise cause no harm. What's wrong with that?
I promise, I've been certified Marksman First Class by the NRA, some forty-two years ago, so I can hit what I aim at. We good?