How one small gun club is fighting to save Missouri’s shooting range protection act

By Lee Williams

One of three 50-yard multi-purpose ranges at the Glendale Shooting Club. (Photo courtesy of the Glendale Shooting Club.)by Lee WilliamsDuring its heyday, the Glendale Shooting Club located near Robertsville, Missouri, was home to shotgun, silhouette, high-power rifle, handgun and Cowboy Action shooters. It hosted regular matches, including the Bauer Brothers Cup, and had around 400 active members.Today, the clay shooting is long gone as are the matches, and the members — only around 140 remain — are writing personal checks to subsidize a convoluted and confusing legal fight that began 40 years ago.The stakes are extremely high. If the club loses its legal battle, Missouri’s shooting range protection act could be declared unconstitutional, which could impact every firearm range in the Show Me State.“If we lose, the ballgame is over,” said Glendale Shooting Club treasurer Jim Hopkins. “It would be as bad as losing our preemption statute, which protects every pro-gun law in the state. It’s up to the courts now.”David Bohm, a St. Louis-based attorney who has represented the Club for the past several years, agrees.“It could open the door to potential injunctive actions against other ranges,” Bohm said. “We’re aware of other ranges where houses are even closer

Source: The Gun Writer