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Commissioners advance ordinance regulating explosive targets and expand firearm safe-distance rule; second reading to follow
Summary
The board voted to adopt a resolution initiating an ordinance to regulate use of mixed/binary explosive targets and to increase the safe-distance trigger in the county firearms ordinance from 200 to 225 yards; the measure will return for a later meeting for final adoption.
The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners on May 19 voted to move forward with a resolution that adopts a new ordinance regulating the use of certain explosive targets at firing ranges and to amend the county’s firearms regulation to increase the minimum distance that prohibits discharge near dwellings from 200 to 225 yards.
County Attorney Rick Morfield said the proposed new ordinance targets devices…
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