Maybe I am misreading, but it seems to allow indoor shooting ranges in buildings where fewer than 50 employees work. I have been to a lot of indoor shooting ranges, and I don’t think I have ever seen one in a building with more than 50 employees.
I don’t think this law will actually shut down any shooting ranges, unless they are in a strip mall or office building.
“but it seems to allow indoor shooting ranges in buildings where fewer than 50 employees work. I have been to a lot of indoor shooting ranges, and I don’t think I have ever seen one in a building with more than 50 employees.”
The shooting ranges will have to be in government owned buildings and 90% of users must be government LEO with government ID with date/time logs kept.
The intent is not to actually shut down any ranges today. They just want the law on the books and precedent set, so they can eventually bring that number from 50 to 2.
...and this is relevant to the main issue, why?
TO all, really.
The bill is specifically targeting privately-owned shooting ranges in buildings that have more than 50 employees.
The ‘intent’ is to eliminate the never-experienced possibility that a shooter will come to the gun range, get out their gun, and then head to the other parts of the building and shoot up a lot of people.
They don’t apparently care if they kill a dozen people, so they are limiting it to 50 or more possible victims.
I can’t imagine an active shooter choosing to start shooting in a place that has dozens of armed and trained people in a shooting range ready to kill them.
Anyway, the bill is written to not impact local and state police training areas, hence the government building exception, the 90% exception, the 50% exception. And the collection of data is supposed to deter criminals, somehow.
IN effect though, it looks like this is targeting the NRA building in Fairfax, which has more than 50 people in it. I don’t know if there are other shooting ranges similar to that in other parts of the state.