Park County is in a Stage II Fire Bans recreational shooting WHY?

Park County is in a Stage II Fire Bans recreational shooting WHY?

I think this is the latest thing the antis have discovered ... blame wild fires on shooting and you can ban shooting.

The Park County sheriff is very pro gun.

Ease up on the tin foil, it's f'ing dry out there. All it take's is one idiot with some tracers or some tannerite and we get another wild fire right now.

No, I agree, during these high fire danger times it makes sense to limit shooting temporarily (and this is likely the case in Park). However mark my words, the antis are ramping up to use wild fires as a reason to start permanently banning shooting on public lands.

Remember Udalls move to initiate more shooting ranges?
Remember "what one giveth, one taketh away"????

Beware of those bearing gifts, especially pollytickians.........

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Originally Posted by Zundfolge

No, I agree, during these high fire danger times it makes sense to limit shooting temporarily (and this is likely the case in Park). However mark my words, the antis are ramping up to use wild fires as a reason to start permanently banning shooting on public lands.

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I agree - there's an article on CNN right now with a headline that implies a fire in Utah was started by shooting, but the article never makes the connection. Commenters discredited it pretty quickly.

Its the geology! if you hit certain kinds of rocks very hard, they spark! Even steel targets will spark! It just takes one spark...

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Originally Posted by Zundfolge

No, I agree, during these high fire danger times it makes sense to limit shooting temporarily (and this is likely the case in Park). However mark my words, the antis are ramping up to use wild fires as a reason to start permanently banning shooting on public lands.

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I'm gonna definitely agree here. The whole state is a tinder box right now, but the libs will use dryness as areas to limit shooting.

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Originally Posted by Zundfolge

I think this is the latest thing the antis have discovered ... blame wild fires on shooting and you can ban shooting.

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I agree. Too many people get their gun knowledge from TV and Movies. Non-incendiary rounds do not spark and are no fire danger. Sensible shooters don't cause fires. Idiots with tracers are a different matter.

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Originally Posted by Inconel710

Ease up on the tin foil, it's f'ing dry out there. All it take's is one idiot with some tracers or some tannerite and we get another wild fire right now.

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Tannerite does not cause fires. Just because something goes boom doesn't mean it contains flash or fire. Tannerite will actually put out any surrounding fires because it robs oxygen from the surrounding air.