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A perfect example of Government intervention that takes a low cost shooting range that some great volunteers would clean 1 or 2 times a year and change it into a costly facility you have to pay for but the hours are only convenient for the workers there not the public IF they decide to open. Awesome job DNR
The state gets a lot of federal funds earmarked for public ranges and hunter safety. Call your Congressman. Those Pitman Robertson funds require the state to maintain public ranges. In the past they have simply dumped the money into their general fund and pointed towards the resort on Higgins lake as their Pitman-Robertson expenditure. They use it a couple of weeks per year to offer Hunters Safety training. It turned into a big deal when they announced the closure of the range in Waterford awhile back. I'm sure the DNR is in no hurry to open or maintain a public range. They do it because they have to.
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I highly doubt it will reopen. The government has achieved it's goal.
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! teacher! leave us kids alone!
"But then there are plenty of gun folks who think no one should rock the boat because it might piss off the anti gun crowd/politicians and cause even more gun control." - Bikenut
Submissive gun rights advocates need to lose their submissiveness before we lose our 2A rights.
I still don’t buy it-the DNR is big enough to have many people on staff that are qualified/eligible to fill those roles. It amounted to a choice some bureaucrat made not to put someone in those positions and elected to leave them in others. They just weren’t ‘essential’ positions in the grand scheme of the DNR.
“Cui prodest?” Lucius Annaeus Seneca
According to the sign it is not open at all Dec 16 through April 30th.
Just because something is legal to do doesn't mean it is the smart thing to do.
Why not put it all under video surveillance? that way it can be open during all day light hours, and if any vandalism happens they can see who did it.