The town of Canfield, Ohio is home to Iron Sights Armory, a gun store that’s interested in expanding its operation to include an indoor shooting range. The biggest problem for the company is the fact that the town actually bans any shooting inside of the city limits, with the exception of self-defense.
According to WKBN-TV, the issue drew a large crowd to the Canfield city council meeting this week, with residents on both sides of the issue turning out to speak. “My opposition is not to gun ownership. It’s opposition to having a shooting range in close proximity to our schools and to the bike trail,” Ashley Kanotz said. “The proposal of putting a gun range within the city limits, in my opinion, is too close to a school regardless of where it is within the city,” John Schuler said.
Honestly, you could have an indoor range next door to a school and it’s not going to pose any sort of issue, other than causing heartburn for folks who don’t want a safe place to shoot in their community.