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Madison board votes to close longtime firing range after stray rounds hit nearby sites
Summary
The Board of Public Works and Safety approved a plan to suspend activity at the city firing range after recent stray rounds struck the animal shelter and a residence; police plan to complete 2025 certifications and seek an alternate site within a year.
The Board of Public Works and Safety voted March 17 to approve a plan from the Madison Police Department to close the city’s firing range because rounds from the range have reached nearby properties, including a recent strike at the animal shelter and a round that entered a residence in the Miles Ridge subdivision.
Chief Scudder told the board that the range was installed in the 1950s to fire into an on-site landfill and that surrounding residential and commercial development means the berm no longer provides an adequate safety buffer. “We’ve had recently a stray round into the animal shelter and then also a stray round into a residence back…
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