Local Gun Rights Activists Battle County Council Over Shooting Restrictions
By Tom Knighton
One of my dreams–one I suspect most avid gun owners share–is to have a patch of land large enough for me to have a range in my back yard. To me, that’s living the dream, right there, especially since I can do things in my yard for training purposes that some ranges tend to frown on, such as drawing and firing or moving while shooting.
A lot of people are already living this dream.
In one Indiana county, however, that dream is in jeopardy thanks to a county council and some busybody neighbors.
The Lake County Council widened its prohibition on gunfire in residential south Lake County Tuesday over the protests of gun owners.
The council voted 5-2 to amended its ban on the discharge of firearms near neighboring homes, enlarging the exclusion zone from 300 feet to 700 feet in unincorporated county areas.
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The council softened the restriction with two exceptions: the exclusion zone wouldn’t apply to hunters during hunting season and it wouldn’t apply if gun owners get signed permission from their adjacent neighbors to discharge weapons at a closer distance.
An overflow crowd of more than 150 called out their opposition to tighter restrictions during the debate and booed loudly …Read the Rest
Source:: Bearing Arms
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