Reply #2: County witnesses don't sound all that compelling [View All]

[Kennah]

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/oct/13/distance-bullets-can-travel-is-disputed-in-court/

Another witness for the county, James Reynolds of the Poulsbo Sportsman Club, described how his club had installed baffles on its rifle lines to prevent bullets from overshooting the backstops. Baffles at the Poulsbo club are a series of wooden structures lined up in front of the shooting position. If a shooter discharges his weapon steeply upward, the bullet would strike the nearest baffle. A slightly upward trajectory would strike a baffle farther down the line.
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Some of the berms were installed just a few years ago to improve safety at the range, he acknowledged.

Chenoweth asked whether the range was unsafe without the baffles.

"We didn't think so," Reynolds said.

So a witness for the county acknowledges the baffles are effectively to placate the county.