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It actually seems to me that folks who live either in the big city or in the middle of nowhere tend to have the best shooting opportunities. It's the folks who live in the suburbs - or even "semi-rural" neighborhoods - who have the most trouble.
Ironically, here in rabidly anti-gun California, most of us have good availability. The city-dwellers have indoor ranges nearly everywhere (most of them do allow rifles, although rarely beyond 25 yards) and many of the rest of us are reasonably close to vast tracts of uninhabited desert where just about anything goes.
The trouble is that so much of America consists of places where the neighbors are just a little too close for back-yard shooting to be safe and appropriate, but there also isn't enough density to support a shooting club. I guess if I lived there I'd either move or sell my rifles...
Ironically, here in rabidly anti-gun California, most of us have good availability. The city-dwellers have indoor ranges nearly everywhere (most of them do allow rifles, although rarely beyond 25 yards) and many of the rest of us are reasonably close to vast tracts of uninhabited desert where just about anything goes.
The trouble is that so much of America consists of places where the neighbors are just a little too close for back-yard shooting to be safe and appropriate, but there also isn't enough density to support a shooting club. I guess if I lived there I'd either move or sell my rifles...
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