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he located at least 100 yards from any public road and 150 feet from adjoining property lines.)
"We're here to consider an amendment to the zoning ordinance (which would allow shooting ranges by special use permit on agriculturally zoned land anywhere in the county)," Luke emphasized. The proposal doesn’t involve the range that the Bowers eventually want to build, he said. "Technically, that's not before you at all," Luke told the commissioners.
Range Needed
Robert Bowers maintained that Rappahannock County, with ten times as many hunters as golfers or tennis players, needs a place where people can shoot, a place for young people to learn “the right wav. the safe way" to handle a firearm.
The range he plans as part of Blue Ridge Guns will be supervised by certified instructors. "If its properlv run. with no drinking, then it's a family sport and we need it." Bowers maintained.
Susan Wittl maintained that the range would be an attribute to the county “in a recreational sense."
"Most people in the county have guns but most don’t have a place to shoot or to sight a gun," said Bob Ludwick, the third and final speaker in favor of the ordinance amendment. "1 don’t want to get into an argument over w hether Amissville is the right place but 1 don’t think county laws should intrinsically forbid a range."
Addressing safety concerns. Ludwick said he’d never heard of a serious accident at a firing range. "The worst thing you can say about it is that it tends to be somewhat noisy.”
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