Posted: 12.17.09 06:08 AM
Following an accidental shooting last July, the Forest Service closed the very popular and heavily used Rampart Shooting Range in the Pike National Forest. In its nearly 20-year history, Rampart had never before experienced a shooting-related injury or fatality.
Rampart is the only free public range in El Paso County and receives 40,000 visitors a year. The Service called the closure a "time-out" in order to assess whether the design of the range was a factor; an investigation determined that it was not.
Safety experts have said that the accident could have happened at any range. But after it closed Rampart, the Forest Service devised a scheme to keep the range closed permanently
Source:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=5253
