[epithermal]

"When he and his wife moved into their home nearby in 2002, gunfire was rarely heard. He wrote that in 2008, or earlier, “the loudness and frequency of shooting sounds from the club began to increase appreciably.”"

Just guessing, but the timing would suggest this may have had something to do with political events.

[mrmeyer]

Long Islanders that moved to NW NJ in the late 90's succeeded in shutting down a range my Father brought my family to just about every saturday when I was a kid. It was where my Dad first taught me how to shoot an M1 Carbine and Colt Python at age 6. It was founded in 1946 by returning WW2 vets. At first, the initial complaints resulted in changing of shooting times, but it wasn't good enough for them. The most unfortunate aspect was that the club leased the land and did not own it. The transplants were able to work with anti-gun elements in local government to pressure the property owner to not renew the lease. That ended the range and the club.

Actions like these need to be fought tooth and nail.

[conservativehusker]

Reminds me of an incident at our gun club... I was the webmaster for our club and received an Email one Sunday morning with a complaint that the noise from our trap shoot was waking a guys 2 year year old..mind you this was 9am.

The guy was polite and gave me his address...by google it was 4 miles away!!!!!....I called the shoot director to mention the guy threatened to call the sheriff and complain...the director told me he would tell the sherrif after the sheriff's daughter got done shooting!

[VR-21]

I believe that in countries like Switzerland supressors are available to the public and are used to keep ranges quieter. I’m sure that anti-gun people and politicians in this country would have an open mind to that approach. /s