Colorado Needs More Shooting Ranges

The Daily Camera reports on another example of what the poor gun owners have to suffer.

As predictable as rising creek waters and early summer mosquito bites, some of our mountain neighbors are already fed up with the whiz of bullets some of them hear near their homes in the foothills.

It can be unnerving. It can, at times, be unsafe. In 2008, U.S. Forest Service officials closed part of Lefthand Canyon after several agency employees experienced near misses from an ad hoc shooting range near a road. But two legitimate complaints from the marksmen arise: They aren`t breaking the law if they are shooting safely on National Forest Service land, and there isn`t a lot of support for managed shooting ranges where the crack of their guns would be a welcome sound, rather than a nuisance to homeowners and hikers.

It sounds to me like more than a nuisance. Is Colorado that gun-friendly that even the hikers and homeowners who are disturbed by this kind of thing only call it a nuisance?

Or is this a biased and slanted article in favor of the gun owners, who often go plinking and shooting too close to houses?

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