Reply filed in gun-range lawsuit
May 12, 2010
Save PARIS — Property owners near a shooting range in Waterford have no grounds to sue the club that maintains the range, a lawyer has asserted in an answer to a lawsuit.
John and Debbie Howe filed the suit against the Waterford Fish and Game Association, which has a shooting range on Route 118. The couple says the gunfire levels at the range were insufficient to disturb them when they moved to the area in 1976, but became a nuisance after 2007.
The Howes lodged several complaints with the town's Board of Selectmen and formed a group titled the Waterford Noise Abatement Coalition before filing the suit. They claim that the range has seen increased use after an expansion, that it is being used in the early morning and late evening hours, and that the increased usage of shotguns and automatic weapons is audible from their farmhouse and property on McIntire Road.
READ MORE
May 12, 2010
Save PARIS — Property owners near a shooting range in Waterford have no grounds to sue the club that maintains the range, a lawyer has asserted in an answer to a lawsuit.
John and Debbie Howe filed the suit against the Waterford Fish and Game Association, which has a shooting range on Route 118. The couple says the gunfire levels at the range were insufficient to disturb them when they moved to the area in 1976, but became a nuisance after 2007.
The Howes lodged several complaints with the town's Board of Selectmen and formed a group titled the Waterford Noise Abatement Coalition before filing the suit. They claim that the range has seen increased use after an expansion, that it is being used in the early morning and late evening hours, and that the increased usage of shotguns and automatic weapons is audible from their farmhouse and property on McIntire Road.
READ MORE