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Luke described the county’s failure to allow for a rifle range anywhere in Rappahannock as ‘‘patently unreasonable...Even if you have 5,000 acres and want to put a rifle range in the middle, you can’t do it!" That denies people the right to use their property in a reasonable manner.”
"Nothing in this life is going to be guaranteed 100 percent safe. That’s not a feasible argument. The question is, can it be reasonably safe?" Luke continued.
“It obviously can...People are not dropping like flies all around us (at ranges in neighboring counties). Neither are hordes of people coming in complaining about going deaf...A rural county is much more suitable for a range because it's not densely populated," Luke said, adding that Rappahannock should have a mechanism in its ordinance for allowance of a shooting range, provided reasonable criteria are met. Even if alcohol isn’t allowed on the premises, Emile Smet asked, what's to stop shooters at the rifle range from keeping a six pack of beer or a whiskey bottle in their cars? "I have a license to protect,” Bowers replied. “I wouldn’t sell a box of 22 shells if I thought someone was drunk. There are some people who can’t go anywhere without a beer or a bottle in the car but they don’t come to a gun shop.”
Somewhere Nofeey After the public hearing had been closed, commissioner David Fannon suggested that if a gun range
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