Gun Policy News
Bulletproof: Shooting Ranges Gain Special Protections Thanks to Gun Lobby
22 January 2002
San Francisco Chronicle
The tranquility of country life ended for Leroy Clayton when a shooting range opened in 1998 on the farm next to his in eastern Georgia. Sounds like Afghanistan, Mr. Clayton says.
But when the 66-year-old barber tried taking the range to court arguing that the noise rendered his farm unliveable he made a startling discovery: The Georgia Legislature had recently passed a law shielding shooting ranges from noise-related litigation. And the push to do so had come from the... (GunPolicy.org)