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The range has been granted a 150 day extension since they ran into permitting issues. They need a floodway permit, a grading and drainage permit, and a tree removal permit. Raising that berm is going to be a lot more work than they anticipated.

So have any of y'all shot there in the last couple of weeks? I'm wondering if they put the 1/8 steel plate and foam in on the rifle side. I keep hearing conflicting stories on that and don't dare step foot there to look since I'm persona non grata there. I was just at Gibson's in Mesquite this weekend and the owner's son had told me he heard nothing's been done. But when I was out at Targetmaster a few weeks back they had heard the range was down one weekend to put the steel plate in.

On a completely unrelated note, while I was out at Gibson's shooting the Sportsman's Team Challenge match over on the steel range, a man came in and claimed he did the investigation on my house and you could see where we stuck a screwdriver in the roof to make the hole. I'm amazed at what people will say. He never did come talk to me though. I can't imagine why not since he was quite the expert on the situation. He didn't look a thing like the 2 policemen who did come over for the ballistics investigation.

03Lightningrocks wrote:I have a bad feeling the folks in that neighborhood are going to claim this is not good enough. The real issue is housing values and what having a gun range beside your neighborhood does to those values. Granted, all these fine folks bought those homes at discounted prices, but when they want to sell, it is not easy finding a buyer. I made a similar mistake when I bought my home. Legacy is running right behind my back yard. I got a heck of a buy on my home and was dumb about why. Now I know. My home value is one thing but the noise from Legacy is going to make it hard finding a buyer who does not think of the situation. Same thing for those folks. They have a very hard time selling at any price and need the gun range gone. The safety issues were just a part of why. IMHO...

The homes were not discounted in the neighborhood. The proximity to the range was not even mentioned since it's over a mile away on the other side of the landfill. Had it been mentioned the chances of people buying the homes heading over to the range to see whether rounds could leave the range are pretty slim. This isn't about the value of the homes. There are a lot of children in the neighborhood. A bullet went into a child's room. That's enough to make everyone on the street and those who deliver on the street a little nervous. You can't expect them to sit back and assume it's not going to happen again. Yes there are those who argue it's their own fault for moving there. I disagree. Those who moved in while houses were being built would not have even heard the gunshots from the range with all the construction going on. Seems to me any measures taken to prevent rounds from leaving the range is a good thing. Especially with the way the community has grown up around there.