The ground-breaking of the Clark County Shooting Park at the base of Sheep Mountain in the utter northwest region of the Las Vegas Valley in October 2006 was a grand event, out in the middle of the desert. Not just because it was attended by dignitaries representing every level of government, but also because the moment represented their collaborative effort, a quarter century in the works, to make Las Vegas home of the world’s largest shooting park. Yet the 2,900-acre, $61 million project did not ignite much public debate. In fact, the Las Vegas Weekly noted this with a headline...