Corrected entry: When Danny Glover and the other two cops show up at the farm they fire several shots which echo across the valley, one shot stopping Samuel in his tracks as he runs to a neighboring farm. The Amish don't shoot guns normally. And yet none of the Amish come to see what is going on at the Lapp farm until Samuel rings the bell. Then they all drop their pitchforks to come investigate.
phatbenny
30th Jul 2009
Correction: The Amish regularly hunt game and shoot vermin on their farms, so "hearing several shots" would not be anything out of the ordinary. They have no prohibition on the ownership or use of hunting rifles or shotguns.