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First time venturing onto this board, so I think I'll use the suggested format. I had a look around and couldn't find this question having been brought up before. I'm sorry if it has.

Question: Can you fire at a Greater Daemon in close combat?

Premise 1:  Grey Tome, p44 "...commanders may wish their warriors to fire indiscriminately into the middle of close combats in the hopes of hitting the enemy, this is not permitted."
Premise 2: Chaos Codex, p23 "...it is always possible to fire at a Greater Daemon even if it has joined a unit or is within 6" of another viable target"
Premise 3: Grey Tome, p20 "Models engaged or locked in close combat block line of sight through them up to the height of the participating models ... If the model doing the spotting, or the model being spotted, is taller than the tallest model in the close combat the line of sight is not blocked."


Conclusion: It seems to me, that the Greater Daemon's rule in Premise 2 is more specific than the rule in Premise 1, over ruling it and allowing the Greater Daemon to be shot. However, Premise 3 then prevents you from shooting the Greater Daemon unless you are taller than the tallest model in the close combat. This could be up to debate, as the Greater Daemon's rule could again be said to be more specific in its use of always.

In fact, Premise 2 could be said to be more specific than a lot of rules.
You can't usually shoot at a model outside of Line of Sight, but you can always shoot at a Greater Daemon.
You can't usually shoot at a model out of range, but you can always shoot at a Greater Daemon.

As you have noted, allowing the statement that "you can always shoot at a Greater Daemon", to override specific prohibitions in other rules leads to madness.

You have two options:

A: Read the Greater Daemon shooting rules as overriding every other shooting rule (including LOS, range, targeting restrictions, and conceivably Crew Stunned or Weapon Destroyed for vehicles), which seems wrong to me, at least.

OR

B) Read the rule as only creating exceptions to the specific rules it lists: "even if it has joined a unit or is within 6"* of another viable target".

The latter seems more correct to me. "Can always shoot at a Greater Daemon" seems too broad to actually be playable as a rule. Via interpretation A one could even try to argue for shooting if you didn't have a ranged weapon, and how would that work?

*The latter prohibition is a 3rd ed rule for targeting ICs, and should probably be played as referring to the prohibition on shooting at ICs if they are not the closest target.

in plain english no you cant, You can never shoot into combats unless

you have some special rule specifically stating that you can