Trust em?

[Frodo]

Yesterday I heard that Biden has signed a bill that will open gun ranges on BLM and national forest land all across the USA
Sounds like a really good thing for gun owners huh?
I think it is a back door attempt at gun registration but I wear a tin foil hat. So what do I know ?

 

[Pearl]

Sounds fishy to me!! Something is up!!

 

[Frodo]

 

[Mountain trapper]

Yesterday I heard that Biden has signed a bill that will open gun ranges on BLM and national forest land all across the USA
Sounds like a really good thing for gun owners huh?
I think it is a back door attempt at gun registration but I wear a tin foil hat. So what do I know ?

As far as I know we've always been able to shoot in the NF and on BLM lands. And they aren't gun ranges. You just pull off the road anywhere you want and shoot. I think what he's referring to is to open a huge area in Utah that was designated a national park or something. There might be other areas like that too.

 

[UserNameTaken]

Our gun club is on BLM land. We have a $1/yr lease, and built it mostly with NRA and Game/Fish grants. After 15 years it's getting pretty nice. We have 4 skeet fields, 5 stand, archery, 2 ranges, a police range and a training/event range.

 

[Frodo]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6492/text

 

[Caribou]

I’ll need to read the legislation and think it over. I don’t trust jello brains. Will the government set up regulations as to the shooting and access? Will that limit shooting to the designated ranges, thereby eliminate all the random ranges that people have used for generations? Will you have to show I.D. putting yourself on a gun owner list?

 

[Supervisor42]

Sounds fishy to me!! Something is up!!

I agree.
It stinks to high heaven!
I haven't read the entire bill, but I'd bet it is to take all of those places off the list of places you could go and shoot, without them requiring your I.D. to 'check in' and add to their list of "Verified evil gun owners".

 

[Quark]

I shoot on a public range on Forest Service land that has been around since 1962. We have a good range and I've posted pictures from time to time.

I pay $50 a year to our association which goes into building and maintaining the range. Last year we paved the roads and built a five hundred yard range to addition to the 100, 200, 300, 400, plus a pistol range and a sight n range. I don't have any problems with the Feds. Now we do have a lot of Feds shooting at the range because live in the capitol of the state. We do pay a pretty penny to the Forest Service for the range but it's not exorbitant.

Our liability insurance is high but it would cost $5,000,000+ to rebuild the range due to forest fire and of course if an idiot shoots himself.

So this could be a good thing.

 

[Pearl]

I shoot on a public range on Forest Service land that has been around since 1962. We have a good range and I've posted pictures from time to time.

I pay $50 a year to our association which goes into building and maintaining the range. Last year we paved the roads and built a five hundred yard range to addition to the 100, 200, 300, 400, plus a pistol range and a sight n range. I don't have any problems with the Feds. Now we do have a lot of Feds shooting at the range because live in the capitol of the state. We do pay a pretty penny to the Forest Service for the range but it's not exorbitant.

Our liability insurance is high but it would cost $5,000,000+ to rebuild the range due to forest fire and of course if an idiot shoots himself.

So this could be a good thing.

Even if the 'take your guns democrats' are all for it?

 

[jazzy]

probably just making it legal for all the illegal camps setting up. i know fbbi admitted some years back there is an illegal islamic terrorist training cmap in wods here in CO but also said dont wporry were keeping an eye on them.

 

[Pearl]

probably just making it legal for all the illegal camps setting up. i know fbbi admitted some years back there is an illegal islamic terrorist training cmap in wods here in CO but also said dont wporry were keeping an eye on them.

I bet you are right

 

[Mountain trapper]

I've never even seen a gun range on FS or BLM lands. Plus I've never used a gun range before even on private land. No need to when I've always lived around NF, I just shoot whenever and wherever I want to. It might make a difference between living in a sparsly populated area and a densely populated area.
I think there's a lot people who get irritated at the amount of shooting that some people do. I've seen times when 10 vehicles of flatlanders come up and shoot off thousands of rounds of ammo, and never bother to pick up their garbage. That pisses me off, but not enough to support an anti shooting bill. I just wish that shooters were more responsible, most are but the slobs tend to ruin things for everyone.

 

[Quark]

I think one of the reasons for this legislation is fires. More and more guns are being sold like it or not. Around here people shooting on Federal land in the summer time can lead to wild fires. So to reduce fires get people to shoot on designed shooting ranges. On our range we are set up to reduce wild fires and have fire fighting equipment on site. On unregulated lands there is no fire fighting equipment and most people don't carry any in their rigs.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I think one of the reasons for this legislation is fires. More and more guns are being sold like it or not. Around here people shooting on Federal land in the summer time can lead to wild fires. So to reduce fires get people to shoot on designed shooting ranges. On our range we are set up to reduce wild fires and have fire fighting equipment on site. On unregulated lands there is no fire fighting equipment and most people don't carry any in their rigs.

Maybe so. But I've never seen or heard of a fire being started by someone shooting. And I live in an area with very dry summers.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Bottom line is there are just too many people competing for too little land.

 

[Quark]

Maybe so. But I've never seen or heard of a fire being started by someone shooting. And I live in an area with very dry summers.

Ya fires have been started by shooters using tracers, Tannerite, etc. Sometimes even by a ricochet. Some shooters even start a camp fire where they should not.