Proposed Tucson-area shooting range could be much larger, more controversial than expected

[Disir]

...“But we hashed out all the issues. Now this group wants to come in and put in an industrial-scale shooting range,” Tuell said.


“With the Catalinas burned, the sheep and other wildlife will now find a more appropriate place to live. This area needs to be protected not degraded.”

OPTIMISTIC ABOUT APPROVAL
The debate will be fought on many fronts:

• Is it an appropriate use of federal land?
• Will it reduce wildcat target shooting elsewhere?
• Will it trigger lead bullet contamination that taxpayers will have to pay to clean up?
• What impact will it have on what conservationists say is a major wildlife corridor?

For now, Coronado National Forest Supervisor Kerwin Dewberry can’t say when his agency will start a review of the facility under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Proposed Tucson-area shooting range could be much larger, more controversial than expected

Redington Pass shooting range would be five ranges in one and is certain to pit gun owners and advocates against environmentalists and conservationists.

tucson.com

That place sounds fantastically huge. It sounds pretty cool but.............it is massive.

 

[candycorn]

It’s Tucson. Tucson is our New Jersey. We just chuckle at them.

 

[lennypartiv]

Can they move it further south (to the border) and just tell the shooters to aim south?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Very near where I lived.
Terribly sad to see the desert trashed by these yahoos.

 

[MarathonMike]

It's the Tucson Gun Club applying for permission to build the range it hasn't even been reviewed yet. Reddington Pass is beautiful I hope it is not approved.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I hate gun ranges.
I'd much rather shoot on private property without the range Nazis.

 

[Levant]

Better to have a shooting range in a localized place rather than shooting anywhere.

 

[whitehall]

There is no lead bullet contamination in a closed range. As a matter of fact lead bullets are valuable and harvested and sold. How much lead contamination shows up when the solar experiment goes bust and they dump the batteries? You almost gotta laugh at the notion of a wildlife corridor when the former president gave blanket immunity for windmill farms that kill tons of migratory and endangered birds including eagles and hawks.