Reply #13: We had a similar situation a few years back [View All]

[DonP]

The range was in place for over 70 years, new home development full of McMansions complaining about the noise and "danger" to the children.

The news crews showed up and one of the homeowners, to prove his point, showed the camera crew a cartridge that he "found on his driveway" that very morning.

Not the bullet, the idiot had a complete 30.06 cartridge that he claimed came from the shooting range. The dumb ass news crew ran with it, not knowing any better. They both looked stupid when somebody asked how an unfired round wound up on his driveway and had he dropped it there on purpose?

Range won, homeowners shut up and learned to live with it.

In fact I'm hard pressed to come up with a single example of a shooting range causing a death or injury from an overshot. Maybe I just missed it? But with a millions of rounds fired each year I'm sure there must be hundreds of accidental injuries and deaths from shooting ranges?