Quote Originally Posted by JohnTRourke
about frigging time.
18,000 waste of space golf courses and it takes them 18 months to maybe find a spot?
ridiculous.
Faster please

Maybe we should take over some golf courses, would make a awesome sporting clays facility.
That's been my take on this concept.

You can't throw a golf ball without hitting a golf course in the metro area. You can't enter a strip mall parkinglot without seeing a shop that sells golfing equipment.

With all that going for one sport why are ranges that existed for decades (Like Aurora Gun Club) being forced out of place?

A shooting range is usually used by people with a high degree of interest in keeping safe while every moron and his brother can start whacking balls anyway they want.

Violence? Would some honest journalist want to get the police records of calls to violent confrontations on shooting ranges vs golf courses? Anyone want to bet that the cops are called to shooting ranges to settle violence amongst users more often than golf courses?

Golf courses also tend to have someplace to purchase alcohol. Someone could be driving home over the legal limit and kill someone DUI. No shooting ranges ever serve alcohol.

Noise? There isn't a shooting range around that makes as much noise as I-25 and that operates 24 hours a day. If sound baffles work so well to deaden the roar of traffic why couldn't they do the same for the sounds of shooting? Paid for by the developer putting in houses, of course.