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WNYBuckHunter Experienced

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I just looked at a sattelite photo of the area. It IS on the outskirts of the city, and there are some rather large chunks of open land that the reporter may be considering "hundreds of feet" away from the school. There are also several buildings nearby that look plenty large enough for an indoor pistol/rimfire range.

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There are zero details on this, so how can you form any opinion on it? Is it an indoor range or outdoor range? What does the surrounding area look like? Like I am saying, no details.

The article stinks of anti-gun sensationalism meant to get people worked up.

Indoor.....but why let lack of info stop an opinion, that's what the internet is for.

I'd rather see a smokes-for-less and a fast food place move in; as those are healthy alternatives.

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Indoor.....but why let lack of info stop an opinion, that's what the internet is for.

I'd rather see a smokes-for-less and a fast food place move in; as those are healthy alternatives.

IF WE NEEDED SARCASM WE WOULD HAVE ASKED FOR IT.................................>GRIN<

And I would have been quick to add to it. <grin>

Smokin' Joe's & a Mighty Taco??

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For anyone who is interested, go to Google Earth and put in 1495 Thomaston Ave, Waterbury, CT. That's the old Timex factory. Sprague Elementary School is 1443 Thomaston Ave, which is hardly "next door". It is quite a distance away, one person said almost a quarter mile, but I'm not sure about that. However, the proposal is for the shooting range to be located underground, in the huge basement of the former Timex factory. Not only is it an indoor range, it is underground, and it is located beneath an industrial factory building. I think that Lisa lady is imagining the safety issues on strictly ideological grounds. She probably just hates guns and shooting enthusiasts. What boils my blood is that the Yahoo news article writer, Eric Pfeiffer, completely left out the fact that the range would be located underground, in the basement of a former factory. In other words, there probably is no way even a high powered rifle bullet could get out without passing through a couple of feet of concrete and bricks, and that just isn't happening with sporting firearms. Bottom line is that safety is really not an issue. Even the lead is not an issue because it is all contained within an enclosed basement and lead is OSHA regulated. I can accept that this Lisa person would be political and leave out pertinent facts. I can't accept that Eric Pfeiffer thinks he can leave out relevant facts while writing a news story about a proposed underground shooting range where he carefully fails to include any mention of it being located not only below ground level, but in the basement of a former industrial factory. It appears that Pfeiffer is being a tool rather than a reporter.

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For anyone who is interested, go to Google Earth and put in 1495 Thomaston Ave, Waterbury, CT. That's the old Timex factory. Sprague Elementary School is 1443 Thomaston Ave, which is hardly "next door". It is quite a distance away, one person said almost a quarter mile, but I'm not sure about that. However, the proposal is for the shooting range to be located underground, in the huge basement of the former Timex factory. Not only is it an indoor range, it is underground, and it is located beneath an industrial factory building. I think that Lisa lady is imagining the safety issues on strictly ideological grounds. She probably just hates guns and shooting enthusiasts. What boils my blood is that the Yahoo news article writer, Eric Pfeiffer, completely left out the fact that the range would be located underground, in the basement of a former factory. In other words, there probably is no way even a high powered rifle bullet could get out without passing through a couple of feet of concrete and bricks, and that just isn't happening with sporting firearms. Bottom line is that safety is really not an issue. Even the lead is not an issue because it is all contained within an enclosed basement and lead is OSHA regulated. I can accept that this Lisa person would be political and leave out pertinent facts. I can't accept that Eric Pfeiffer thinks he can leave out relevant facts while writing a news story about a proposed underground shooting range where he carefully fails to include any mention of it being located not only below ground level, but in the basement of a former industrial factory. It appears that Pfeiffer is being a tool rather than a reporter.

Well that info certainly changes my opinion in favor of the underground range.

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There are zero details on this, so how can you form any opinion on it? Is it an indoor range or outdoor range? What does the surrounding area look like? Like I am saying, no details.

The article stinks of anti-gun sensationalism meant to get people worked up.

I agree that the article is worthless and lacks details of the most important fact that the proposal is for an underground range. It was wrong to assume from the article thar it was above ground and right next to the school. Mea culpa.

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