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This is probably a really stupid question, but given the affirmed grandfather status, what could potentially happen if KRRC just said "screw it" and opened up for business any way?
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The judge's order said that the KRRC is responsible to ensure no firearms are discharged on their property. I think anyone caught by the police using a gun there might be arrested; maybe the judge could charge them with with contempt of court? The range is still open, range officers are present to ensure the rules are enforced; shooting or not.
There is video surveillance to prove that the club is not allowing gun use when the inevitable complaints about noise from people shooting near the club boundaries are reported to the police. One of the things the KRRC RO's do is record the time and approximate location of any gun noise they hear originating from property around the club; including the guy just across the fence who shoots on his property into a small berm and is one of the principle complainers associated with Central Kitsap Safe and Quiet.
Quoted:I mean the obvious answer is more lawsuits, but what standing does the county even have to do what they've done thus far?
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The commissioners are elected to run the county and they pass the ordinances that govern the way people live in Kitsap. Considering the margin by which two of the Commissioners were elected, the portion of the quarter million people who live in the county and bother to vote are satisfied with running the ranges out of business. So far the courts have affirmed the county's rights to do whatever they want with one exception; the appeals court upheld the KRRC's grandfathered status to exist as a shooting club on their land and that the County should have come to some resolution other than closing the club. So it appears that the KRRC's right to exist is grandfathered, but not the right to use guns on their property or anything else. A gun range without guns; that makes as much sense as the county suing the range over noise then telling them use of noise abatement is illegal.
Randy