Range Closure

I heard a bit more about the closure of our range over the weekend that might shed some light on the issue. It seems the complaintant lives 1-1/2 miles from the range and the finding of bullets in his yard notwithstanding, they couldn't be traced back to us definitively. All the properties in that area are on 40-acre plots and positioned near the roadway which is away from the range.

The Adams county sheriff said that without better proof, nothing could go forward, however the complaintant then called in the county zoning board who declared that the range property was zoned agricultural and using it for a commercial operation was out of it's allowable usage. It seems that a private gun club is a commercial operation.

There is provision for operations that pre-date the zoning regs to continue on, and the club management is pursuing this but that requires money and lawyers which seem to be in short supply.

At this point it looks like any of us who want to continue shooting will be joining the next nearest gun club which is some 50 miles further east, or about 70 miles out from where most of us live.

Bummer.