Posted October 18, 2019 5:30 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

One of the things I genuinely hate about local governments is their insistence on telling you what you can and can’t do with your own property. Pretty much every municipality in the country tries to exert some degree of control over what you can and can’t do with your land, and sometimes I get it. Building codes, for example, are generally about making homes safer. Having survived tornados and hurricanes, I get it.

Yet some people just don’t want you to do anything on your land they don’t personally approve of. That’s the fight one town had to deal with when newer residents apparently wanted to put an end to shooting on private property.

The locals rallied, though, and it seems they came out on top.

The threat of “sweeping restrictions” being proposed to restrict target shooting on private property brought locals crowding into the Board of Supervisors’ normally quiet meeting in Springfield Township, Pa., Sept. 24. Several measures were formally proposed in the meeting, and rumors had suggested even more would be. Most of the proposed items were rejected, but one banning target shooting at night passed.

Cal Huntzinger, a local who attended the Board of Supervisors meeting, told …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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