Comments on: Support Needed to Re-Open Rampart Shooting Range

By: J

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:45:47 +0000

I’ve taken my son up there the last 10 years. Guess now I have to pay for a membership somewhere else… Thanks

By: James

James — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:11:01 +0000

I understand what you are saying, and as a Marine I understand your concern for safety and trash. I have shot up there many times, and I think the range is safe but the shooters themselves are the biggest variable of weather or not something bad happens. 90% of the time I shot next to someone I felt perfectly safe. the other times I simply went and shot something else until that individual left. The trash sucks, there is no way around that. But when you close the only free shooting range in Colorado springs during an economic time such as this you forces people without the means to buy a membership to go further up the mountain. and when others are not present people tend not to behave themselves in the same manner possibly resulting in way more trash spread out all over the national forest. I respect the fact that you decide not to shoot there, but I don’t like it when others make that decision for me.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:00:46 +0000

I am an avid shooter, veteran of the US Army and member of the NRA, but I believe the closing of the Rampart Shooting Range was justified. I knew US Marines who would not shoot at that range feeling it was unsafe. Plus, the trash there is terrible because people cannot clean up after themselves. The mess left up there makes all responsible gun owners look bad and until the mess and irresponsibility is cleaned up there I hope it remains closed.