By Bob Walsh
I have written a couple of times about the eminent demise of the very nice public firing range run by the Chabot Gun Club on Redwood Road on land owned by the East Bay Parks District. Labor Day was their last day of operation of the 65 acre operation. The club had a total of 176 firing positions on the public ranges, making it one of the largest such operations in the [San Francisco] bay area.
The range has been under assault for several years by anti-gun assholes who are offended by the mere presence of firearms and firearms owners. They managed to assert that the presence of the fired lead projectiles in the berm is somehow a significant health threat. (It really isn’t. Lead salts can be an issue. A chunk of lead lying on the ground isn’t.)
The club has just about 1,000 actual members and the range’s hosted about 45,000 individual shooters per year on the public ranges. There were also several closed ranges used by private security trainers, police departments and others.
The district managers, who voted unanimously to evict the range, asserted that they feared that there might be a significant cleanup cost down the line which the Park District might be on the hook for if the gun club could not cover it.
In actuality the range was shut down by a pack of gun-hating liberal assholes, which is not a small minority in the San Francisco Bay Area. Just one more attack on the Second Amendment from a functional standpoint.
1 comment:
This is sad.
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