[brbethke]

If you live in Minnesota and care at all about hunting, shooting, or the 2nd Amendment, call your state representative and tell him or her to get behind HF 327. You have got to do it because I know that my state rep, Nora Slawik, will do everything she can to stop this bill. (She's the useless @*#&^ who's sponsoring the bill to repeal concealed carry.)

After all, what good is the right to keep and bear arms if there's nowhere you can use those arms?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Bumping

Going after ranges is just another gun grabber tactic.

[jim_trent]

I used to belong to an outdoor range just outside of Cambridge, Mn (I lived in nearby Isanti). Through the years, people bought acreages around it and built homes. Then they tried to shut it down. I no longer live in Minnesota, but I visited it about 3 years ago and heard that they had to raise dues in order to keep a lawyer on a retainer for all the legal problems the "concerned" neighbors brought against them. One even erected a billboard on his property right across from the entrance of the range with his rantings painted on it.

[Condor51]

This now happens EVERYWHERE.
Just as #4 has said, once remote/isolated outdoor ranges or gun clubs are being surrounded by new homes and then the bonehead owners say,

"Hey, what's all that noise? A Gun CLUB? It Must Go, dammit! I don't care if they've been here for fifty years, I just moved here and I can't sleep, watch Oprah, Springer, etc, blah, blah, blah."

It happened to a gun club in Naperville, IL recently. The Sportsman's Gun Club if I recall correctly. It was once remote and had like a 50 year lease from the Village for the 'vacant' land. The new 'neighbors' DEMANDED it not be renewed - noise, lead pollution, etc. The controversy dropped from the news so I don't know the outcome.

[CarolAnn]

We passed a similar law here in Kansas about three years ago, when they started building upscale homes near a shooting range that has been outside the KC area for generations. I know Minnesota is a liberal state, but it's also very rural. I hope you don't have too much trouble getting it passed.

[philetus]

When they shut down all the rsnges, you better be able to prove you're a hunter until they outlaw hunting.