If Drake is forced to close (which I don't think it should be), then the hunters in Harnett county need to be stopped as well....they drive like crazy around and through neighborhoods...and are no where NEAR as safe as DRake is......

"By all means, PLEASE enlighten us all as to exactly how many of the pistol packing fools with legal concealed carry permits have shot anyone other than when legally defending themselves or others from crime!!! veryfrustrated1"

Fine, for starters let us just look at highly trained professional pistol packing Yahoos. Let us look at the two highly trained professional pistol packing cops that have shot themselves recently. that sounds pretty irresponsible to me. you want more? Fine, let us go to the highly trained professional pistol packing cop in New york City that shot nine innocent bystanders recently. That too sounds pretty irresponsible to me. so the cops are not any better then the rest of the pistol packing Yahoos. We have some six hundred accidental shootings a year. Add to that shootings over disagreements and such.

Damien, my family knows them personally. I agree with you that you can close the range but not the shooting per se. But you can reduce it a LOT. Obviously my sympathies lie with the home owners who were there first and have to listen to this all day and can't relax on their own property.

"That is a shame then. It sounds like this place was here before the people complaining. Damien Thorne

Oh does it now? Does it really? Well how does this sound? Go to Google Earth, pull up the range, go to street view and look at the mostly thirty year old or older houses around it. Than tell us what it "sounds" like

I have been to Drake’s Landing many times for both corporate events and personal recreation. The entire staff is professional and knowledgeable and their primary concern is safety. The facility is top notch and is the best place around for Sporting Clays and target practice. I hope that Harnett County leaders do not close this facility.

"Damien Thorne, The former commissioner or his son own this place. The former commissioners name is Dan Andrews."----paddie

I appreciate the information, you would seem to know more about it then I do. It seems though if he had any pull this would not be happening.

I would like to point out though that even if you close the range down you cannot prevent them from shooting there. All they can do is make them stop running a business of it. They can still allow people to shoot there all they want as long as the do not charge for it and the shooters take their own liability for any incidents.

Probably worse off if they do.

Damien Thorne, The former commissioner or his son own this place. The former commissioners name is Dan Andrews.

"Of course I'm talking about OVER the buffer. From the pictures they had on their website of the rifle range, it didn't look like it would take much elevation for an errant round to leave the range."

Looking at the pictures on the website as well it would appear there is only a small opening to shoot though, one that would prevent a rifle from being able to shoot at a high enough angle to overshoot the berms. That would be of the 200 yard rifle range.

Anyone can find a way around anything of course.

"But I would like more information on this. The investigators have had over a year to figure this out, or at least rule out the range. Has any type of report been issued? Have they even said whether or not the houses are lined up with the shooting range? I don't know if the lack of info is poor reporting from WRAL or slack investigators.

While it might be impossible to prove a round came from the range, it should be pretty simple to determine if it was a possibility."----Lightfoot3

That is something that keeps setting off flags to me. I have never known any law enforcement entity to not forward a guess or at least mention something as a possibility. The sheriffs dept. here has done neither, which leads me to the only logical conclusion that they do not think it came from this range.

Nothing, no "it is possible" or anything about the range when they said what they did about bullet holes or mention anything about the range being investigated. Commissioners look at that.

"Mine was only to stop a neighbor on a 1 acre plot shooting recklessly." - Damien Thorne

Ashen-Shugar made similar Johnston County claims. Are you familiar with him?

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