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Meadowlark resident details private indoor firing range; commissioners note limited county authority

Hutchinson County Commissioners Court · October 28, 2025
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Kelly Watson, a Meadowlark property owner, told the Hutchinson County Commissioners Court he is building a private indoor firing range inside a 40-foot export container and has installed multiple safety measures, ventilation and noise mitigation.

Kelly Watson, a Meadowlark property owner, told the Hutchinson County Commissioners Court he is building a private indoor firing range inside a 40-foot export container and has installed multiple safety measures, ventilation and noise mitigation.

"You can't build something and make it safe later on. You gotta start out," Watson said while showing photos and describing concrete-reinforced walls, a locked gun safe, crushed-rubber backstop and a ventilation and filtration system.

Watson told the court he narrowed the shooting window, added multiple steel and concrete barriers, installed a gun safe and will…

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