"Opponents of front yard gun range to petition state for new law"
Patrick Leary lives in a dense residential neighborhood in Florida and has children. His next door neighbor, Joey Carannante, owns several guns and didn’t like driving to a gun range to shoot his guns, so he set one up in his yard, within 30 feet of Leary’s home. Under current law, this is perfectly legal. Leary launched a petition last week to outlaw homemade gun ranges in residential areas and had 1,600 people sign it the first day. He is being supported by several local political leaders and police men, but local officials have little power in this situation since in 1987 the Florida legislature passed a law saying state statutes pertaining to gun regulations supersede those of local municipalities.
This example shows the importance of the right to petition, so that citizens can have an impact on local and state laws by gaining popular support. With the huge number of people standing behind Patrick Leary, this will likely show people that it is possible to take action and get laws changed by being active and showing civic virtue.
Thankfully, I have full confidence that this will be a successful petition and the state law will be changed. It is ridiculous that people can have private gun ranges in their yards in residential neighborhoods.
If it was an indoor gun range, I would be totally fine with it and would really want to go. This reminds me of a video I once saw a while back about a larger town in Texas. The town had next to no regulations on who could build what building where in town. So there are situations like gas stations right next to firing ranges. But in all seriousness, don't fire guns in a residential area; it's just stupid.
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