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Jim Grehan, Emile Smet and Dot Grehan all voiced opposition to a shooting range in general and to a range on the Bowers’ property in particular.
“I want to keep peace and quiet in Rappahannock County,” announced Mrs. Paul A. Poling, clapping her hands enthusiastically as she sat down but inducting only one other member of the audience to join her applause.
"Guns are inherently dangerous,” said Sperryville attorney Bill Fletcher, maintaining that a shooting range would pose a safety threat to the surrounding area. He said he’d talked to shooting range operators who admitted receiving complaints about ’’bullets whizzing around” from landowners a half-mile away. He maintained that any outdoor range should be located in a sparsely populated area. Robert Linquist told the planning commissioners that a shooting range will attract people from surrounding counties, not just serve the needs of Rappahannock residents. "This will affect everyone in Rappahannock. I hope you take a long, hard look at it,” said S#hh Latham. “It will affect (fhd values which in turn afpct the tax base.” Jon hf organ described the range a* “commercialization going’’ next door to you...Th»t*s theiuue.”
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