Henderson County (NC) protects 'backyard' shooting ranges

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Planning Board: Private gun ranges OK countywide - Hendersonville Lightning

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The upshot is that someone in a rural part of the county pitched a fit over shooting near their horse farm. The county commissioners told them to pound sand.

Money quotes:

“All this came about because of a single incident in Edneyville on top of a mountain,” Rick Livingston said. “I don’t think any small group of citizens in Henderson County should be allowed to penalize everyone in Henderson County who happens to be in an R-1 or R-2 zone. I just don’t agree with that.”

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Planning Board voted unanimously to send commissioners a recommendation allowing private shooting ranges in all five of the county’s residential zoning categories and in retail, commercial and industrial zones. Gun ranges would be allowed in every zoning district, provided the people using them don’t fire shots that leave their property.