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Residents tell council stray bullets endanger rural neighborhoods; officials agree enforcement and ordinance review needed
Summary
Multiple residents urged the City Council to strengthen regulations and enforcement on private target shooting in rural parts of Chesapeake after repeated reports of bullets crossing property lines and property damage. Council asked staff and police to research legal options and present amendments or charging mechanisms for council consideration.
Several residents from rural neighborhoods told the Chesapeake City Council on February 2025 that target‑shooting on private property is creating a public‑safety threat and called for clearer rules and stronger enforcement.
Speakers described multiple incidents in which bullets or large‑caliber rounds crossed property lines, damaged vehicles, pierced outbuildings and narrowly missed household members and children. Stephanie Fulford told council that in January 2024 a 5.56‑round penetrated the side of a truck and landed in the bed about 30 feet from a children’s playground; she said she had…
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