Support a Museum gun range in Cody WY that is being blocked by anti-gunners

So here's the street and the proposed indoor range location is in the lower left.
You can retrofit an indoor range into an existing and meet all regulatory requirements. The cost is expensive and the operating costs are high as well if you're operating "downtown", but it is completely possible to control all concerns such that no one would even know what was being done in the building. If he wants to do this he should engage the National Shooting Sports Foundation indoor range consultants who can present to the city and residents what is done to have zero impact on the neighborhood. It is his responsibility to remove the concerns on noise and lead and NSSF can help him do this where a bunch of emails babbling about Antis won't help one bit.

OUR best course of action is to send emails pointing out that ALL new ranges have to meet state air quality permitting requirements and that local noise ordinances have to be complied with so there should be no concern on the part of the neighbors if the facility operates within those regulatory requirements. Add that the National Shooting Sports Federation provides support to firing ranges to help the owners/operators meet and exceed all requirements in even the most strict regulatory states and that they could certainly provide assistance to Mr. Brock to do this.

The news pieces have pointed out that the board for the foundation is composed of people from outside the area/state. The "locals" in resort areas like Cody are also a mix of traditional Wyoming residents and people from outside who've moved into town. The basis for the economy is tourism and those folks are not locals.

The phrase "all politics is local" is a famously American concept that what matters in politics (national, state, or local) are the issues that matter to the people in the towns and countryside. 2A issues are national politics, but also local politics. The local decisions by local politicians are like blocks in a structure and if we don't understand that the Anti groups appreciate that interlocking blocks of Anti decisions on the local level builds a foundation for Anti national politics we face a national problem. The other complicating factor is that Anti propaganda to establish "facts" in peoples' minds across the country influences local opinions and local politics so we need to work to counter that as well. So, yeah, the locals in Cody should make the decisions about what they do and don't want in their town, but leaving the field to the Antis insures their victory and our defeat as in Colorado and across the country.

Good point.

Reading what's available on the internet about the specific case shows this is less an RKBA or 2A issue, and more a zoning and ill-informed concerned public question. Mr. Brock should make the effort to educate the neighbors and present a plan to the city showing the facility will be safe to the public and operated in a manner to ensure the safety of the community. Plenty of empty buildings have been retrofitted to indoor ranges and he can too.

Good read on the topic of retro to range - http://www.nssf.org/ranges/rangeres...ign/range_and_biz.htm&CAT=Facility Management, http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2013/01/saginaws_ssp_associates_seeks.html, http://www.pomeradonews.com/2013/02/19/poway-council-to-review-plans-for-indoor-shooting-range/