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    | FL: Backyard blast Submitted by: 
			
Bruce W. Krafft
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    | ... "A neighborhood in St. Petersburg, Lakewood Estates, has a problem. One resident has set up a firing range in his yard and, according city and law enforcement officials, it’s legal under Florida law."
 
 "The gun range, according to newspaper accounts, begins in the front yard and ends in a small pile of pallets propped up by dirt in the backyard near the a fence. Reports are that this is eight feet from his neighbor’s yard and 20 feet from the window of the children’s bedroom. ..." ...
 
 "The Record has always been a defender of Second Amendment rights, but even the NRA’s chief lobbyist, Marion Hammer, is calling Florida’s law — or lack of it — nutty. ..." ...
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     Millwright66
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    | Recent reports have the owner dismantling his range.  But I'm wondering "why ?".  IMNSHO its perfectly possible, (and feasible depending upon local zoning ordinances) to construct a completely safe pistol range in a limited space such as a back yard. |  
 
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