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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: SlideRacker on March 16, 2008, 11:16:29 PM
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Well I hope this sends the right message to my Rep in Washington. My city just voted on the building of a public, city owned gun range. Construction will begin this spring. Our local LEO's will be rangemasters, and the city will provide water, sewer, elect, so on and so forth. I can't wait to see it all come together. It took a lot of work from a lot of people to get this done, and I hope many more in my state will do the same.
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Isn't it great when a town comes together and gets something done like this?
Makes ya feel good doesn't it?
Congratulations. Take pictures and keep us informed. :)
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GOOD FOR YOU !
Enjoy
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Excellent! Tax money being spent the way it should be! Good job and keep us informed of progress.
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Well I hope this sends the right message to my Rep in Washington. My city just voted on the building of a public, city owned gun range. Construction will begin this spring. Our local LEO's will be rangemasters, and the city will provide water, sewer, elect, so on and so forth. I can't wait to see it all come together. It took a lot of work from a lot of people to get this done, and I hope many more in my state will do the same.
Congratulations!! Personally that's something I never though could happen in this day and age. Maybe there is still some hope for this country.
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SlideRacker,
Where abouts?
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Every once and a while the good guys win!!!! Great job. :D
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SlideRacker,
Where abouts?
Yup, that's what I'm wondering. You never know when relocation becomes a more attractive option.
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Batesville, Arkansas is where it will be. I really feel good about it. There were a lot of issues to have to work through, but everyone was right there with a solution. This is a town known for it's down to earth politics.
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www.guardonline.com/?q=search/node/shooting+range
This is how it came out in the paper.
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Also see this while we're talking about Batesville and guns. www.guardonline.com/?q=archive/2008/3/13
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Congrats on the new range!! Glad to see your community come together and build something for the common good!! Enjoy it!! But for everyone else, take a good lesson from this. Be involved in your community and it's politics. Unfortunately I learned that lesson the hard way. Where I live, the weasels in my community came together with the weasel politicians and shut down our range. The only public skeet range within 50 miles. It had been in continuous operation for 70 years and with a stroke of a pen and a wink from the EPA, they took our range away. Saying you will thank us, that the lead was poisoning the water and the little furry animals. This of course being a big surprise to all of the shooters considering it had been policy to use non-lead shells for quite a while!! Signed a piece of paper, Thursday, shut the range down on Friday and had bulldozed it by Sunday. It happened just that quick, and believe me it can happen to you!!
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Congrats on the new range!! Glad to see your community come together and build something for the common good!! Enjoy it!! But for everyone else, take a good lesson from this. Be involved in your community and it's politics. Unfortunately I learned that lesson the hard way. Where I live, the weasels in my community came together with the weasel politicians and shut down our range. The only public skeet range within 50 miles. It had been in continuous operation for 70 years and with a stroke of a pen and a wink from the EPA, they took our range away. Saying you will thank us, that the lead was poisoning the water and the little furry animals. This of course being a big surprise to all of the shooters considering it had been policy to use non-lead shells for quite a while!! Signed a piece of paper, Thursday, shut the range down on Friday and had bulldozed it by Sunday. It happened just that quick, and believe me it can happen to you!!
First let me give congratulations to the new city range and secondly ask what did the NRA do to stop your range closing . When they ( the yuppies) tried to close the range I belonged to they came out and told us what was really wrong and how to fix it, but that was all they were willing to do, no help with the court and no help reparing our range . By the way we WERE 100% NRA.
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First let me give congratulations to the new city range and secondly ask what did the NRA do to stop your range closing . When they ( the yuppies) tried to close the range I belonged to they came out and told us what was really wrong and how to fix it, but that was all they were willing to do, no help with the court and no help reparing our range . By the way we WERE 100% NRA.
As soon as they got the EPA involved it was the kiss of death. And no way to fight the local/federal government and the enviro/anti-gun/too much noise-wacknuts in this area.
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As soon as they got the EPA involved it was the kiss of death. And no way to fight the local/federal government and the enviro/anti-gun/too much noise-wacknuts in this area.
sounds like your in Mass
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sounds like your in Mass
Actually it sounds like he's in Hell (or am I being redundant?).
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I wish that lincoln AR would build a sporting clays range ???
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Actually it sounds like he's in Hell (or am I being redundant?).
Yes to redundant, if you like guns.
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That's a good idea.. for a range! ::)
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Maybe MB could come down to fire the first shots over the range. A bit of promo work for the good of the people ya know. I am working on some plans for a rimfire league - like bowling only with guns.