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everything” after the injunction was issued.
Bowers defined a shooting range as “anyplace you shoot”—or “from the end of a rifle to a target on a horizontal property.”
Closing Statements “This case is really simple,” Baumgardner told the judge. “A firing range is allowed only by special exception. It is the burden on the owner to come before the board to request and to comply.”
In his turn, Dulaney continued to argue the constitutional rights of the sportsmen to bear and train to arms. The barriers had been built for the public protection, he added. Dulaney said Bowers had been led to believe by the zoning administrator that the ordinance would not apply to private individuals acting in a strictly non-commercial capacity.
Finally Baumgardner argued that any constitutional right is subject to certain limitations. He compared the right to bear arms to freedom of speech—a person may say what he likes until it becomes verbal assault. He may not yell “fire” in a crowded theater. Likewise the right to target practice must be balanced against public safeguards—which are contained in Rappahannock within the zoning ordinance, the Commonwealth’s Attorney concluded.
Judge Robertson agreed and continued the injunction permanently.
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