my thoughts are that given the ssaa were involved and a very big part of creating the range then they wanted to take it over the range certification would be right for what they were doing, I have not seen any evidence that the range was not allowed to have steel gongs, in fact the opposite, it was what held them up that was the problem
if anyone has this info that the range was breaching laws can you share it, might look better than internet opinions
this needs to have its day in court, the outcome will have a big effect on how targets at ranges are viewed
but we all know that at least in NSW black rifles are terrorist rifles made for a sniper
I would like to correct the idea that ranges do not use steel or gongs ect as targets
just an example would be the cowboy clubs Australia wide use them from 5 meters for shooting handgun, shotgun and rifle,
they also put big steel bison targets out at long range
the fly shooters at ssaa little river have a very big steel frame that hold their targets up as well as a steel plate next to each target as a sighter
and what about metallic silhouette, hmmmm
the MRC has a big rock at 300 on the 2nd range as a sighter target, the most shot rock on the entire you yangs
ssaa little river has gongs all over the place, little river even had a ricochet incident and still has steel targets
from what I have read this guy was allowed to shoot the steel gongs but not have steel posts (star pickets ect...) to hold they targets up
anyway better to have there day in court where I'm sure it will all come out in the wash
good luck to them
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