A group of wealthy men badgered a land owner into selling them some land in a rural neighborhood on which they set up a firing range, ostensibly for training and qualifying law enforcement personnel and target shooting. With the operators allowing members from a large surrounding area to use the range 24/7 there is now the sound of a war zone filling the air 24/7.
I’m a military veteran who supports and greatly appreciates law enforcement and understands the need for qualifying and practice, and I enjoy target shooting myself. I live within the area of the noise created by the range users, and I would not personally want to bother the area residents with the sound of gunfire for the pleasure of shooting, especially at night.
Unfortunately the men who set up the range and their friends and lawyers don’t live near the range and it’s noise and do not seem bothered in the least that those who do live there are very much bothered by the noise or the possibility of a stray bullet finding its’s way to a person or animal. There are animals in the area and children who need their sleep as well as , I understand , a veteran with PTSD who has to wear noise cancelling headphones to avoid having panic attacks. Doesn’t seem right to me!
Interestingly, although the entrance to the range is at our house it’s pretty quiet at our place (0.8 miles). I’ve heard from you (0.99 miles) as well as Trey up on Pope Farm Road (1.3 miles) that it’s pretty noisy, so the range of the sound apparently goes pretty far. It must be pretty bad for the folks along Mock Mill near Stewart Acres and the folks off of Island ford East of Goble. However, Beulah road is pretty quiet. We get some occasional firing from the direction of the Ostwalt farm across the road, but not often and not too loudly. I think they just zero their hunting rifles once in awhile over there.