Doc
Member
this is sad and sick.
you can hear the 'rich anti-gunners' bragging about how their houses
"back up to state land and you KNOW they can't build there"
now they are peeved that the state is actually using the land for
OTHERS...:banghead:
http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1099509002156000.xml?aanews?NEL
you can hear the 'rich anti-gunners' bragging about how their houses
"back up to state land and you KNOW they can't build there"
now they are peeved that the state is actually using the land for
OTHERS...:banghead:
http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1099509002156000.xml?aanews?NEL
Judge orders halt to firing at Island Lake Shooting Range
No date set in Green Oak suit to enforce noise regulations
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
BY TOM TOLEN
News Staff Reporter
In one of his last acts in office, retiring Livingston County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Burress ordered the Island Lake Shooting Range closed pending the outcome of a trial.
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No date has been set in the case, filed by the Green Oak Township board in June to force the state Department of Natural Resources to comply with township noise regulations. The gun range is located in the Island Lake State Recreation Area, east of Brighton in Green Oak Township.
At the conclusion of three days of testimony in the case, Burress said Tuesday he would sign an order prohibiting the discharge of "pistols, rifles and shotguns," which will effectively shut down both the rifle range and the privately operated skeet, trap and sporting clay range. The order was expected within the next few days.
"Justice has prevailed," said Jenness Wiegand, the spokeswoman for a citizens' group involved in the case. "The state should be taking responsibility for this whole mess," she added. "This whole range has been an atrocity, between the noise and the lead."
Burress called attorneys for the state "callous, insensitive and arrogant," saying they have no regard for the residents. He also rejected the argument that closing the sporting clay range would cause irreparable economic harm to the private franchisee for the state, saying there had been greater harm to the residents who have had to endure the noise.
DNR spokesman Brad Wurfel could not be reached Tuesday. He has said previously the DNR has attempted to mitigate the noise, including sound-proofing in the form of straw bales and sheds installed at each of the 14 sporting clay stations this summer.
"I'm very happy with the decision, although certainly the other side will probably appeal and we still will be going to trial," said Township Supervisor Mark St. Charles.
Tom Tolen can be reached at ttolen@livingstoncommunitynews.
com or at (810) 844-2009.