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Another CT gun Range in trouble...
This case is nearly identical to Ledyard.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-durrange0513.artmay13,0,230098.story
DURHAM — - A Wallingford gun range that may be linked to incidents of bullets hitting houses more than a mile away in Durham would have to alter the direction of gunfire if officials confirm that rounds are landing in Tri-Mountain State Park.
If that happens, it might bode well for the Tri-Mountain Road and Catherine Drive areas of Durham, where at least 18 homes and properties have been hit with bullets in the past 11 years, including three since October.
State police are investigating the source of the bullets. A police inquiry in the late 1990s, conducted after a dozen properties were hit, some multiple times, concluded that the Blue Trail Range & Gun Store was "most likely" the source of those gunfire incidents.
Police have not made a determination in the recent cases.
On Friday morning, elected officials, state troopers and state environmental conservation police officers inspected a bullet-scarred area across the Ulbrich Reservoir from the firing range.
They found a large number of bullets, which was no surprise. David Lyman, the owner of the range, had said at a meeting of neighborhood residents and Durham officials last month that bullets have been landing in that area since the mid-1940s.
The question now is whether the scarred area is state property. If it is, the range will be ordered not to fire into that location anymore, Dwayne Gardner, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection, said later Friday.
He said the agency will check land surveys and maps to determine whether the land is, indeed, in Tri-Mountain State Park.
The Durham neighborhood is on the opposite side of Tri-Mountain and lines up with a notch in the ridge line.
"If the state says 'No, you can't shoot there,' that may help the residents of Durham," said First Selectwoman Laura Francis, who walked the area with state Rep. Raymond Kalinowski, R-Durham, the law officers, and a neighborhood homeowner Friday morning.
She said Trooper Peter DiGioia and others were still checking trajectories, compiling ballistic reports on recovered rounds, and making inquiries at the Blue Trail Range and other private ranges in the area.
An employee at Blue Trail referred questions to Lyman's lawyer, Craig Fishbein, who could not be reached Friday afternoon.
This case is nearly identical to Ledyard.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-durrange0513.artmay13,0,230098.story
DURHAM — - A Wallingford gun range that may be linked to incidents of bullets hitting houses more than a mile away in Durham would have to alter the direction of gunfire if officials confirm that rounds are landing in Tri-Mountain State Park.
If that happens, it might bode well for the Tri-Mountain Road and Catherine Drive areas of Durham, where at least 18 homes and properties have been hit with bullets in the past 11 years, including three since October.
State police are investigating the source of the bullets. A police inquiry in the late 1990s, conducted after a dozen properties were hit, some multiple times, concluded that the Blue Trail Range & Gun Store was "most likely" the source of those gunfire incidents.
Police have not made a determination in the recent cases.
On Friday morning, elected officials, state troopers and state environmental conservation police officers inspected a bullet-scarred area across the Ulbrich Reservoir from the firing range.
They found a large number of bullets, which was no surprise. David Lyman, the owner of the range, had said at a meeting of neighborhood residents and Durham officials last month that bullets have been landing in that area since the mid-1940s.
The question now is whether the scarred area is state property. If it is, the range will be ordered not to fire into that location anymore, Dwayne Gardner, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection, said later Friday.
He said the agency will check land surveys and maps to determine whether the land is, indeed, in Tri-Mountain State Park.
The Durham neighborhood is on the opposite side of Tri-Mountain and lines up with a notch in the ridge line.
"If the state says 'No, you can't shoot there,' that may help the residents of Durham," said First Selectwoman Laura Francis, who walked the area with state Rep. Raymond Kalinowski, R-Durham, the law officers, and a neighborhood homeowner Friday morning.
She said Trooper Peter DiGioia and others were still checking trajectories, compiling ballistic reports on recovered rounds, and making inquiries at the Blue Trail Range and other private ranges in the area.
An employee at Blue Trail referred questions to Lyman's lawyer, Craig Fishbein, who could not be reached Friday afternoon.
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