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1. ACTION ITEM: Fauquier County wants input on gun ordinance!
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If you live in Fauquier County, please come to their next Board of Supervisors meeting to oppose a change to their discharge ordinance:

The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors is looking to extended the distance a person must be from a regularly occupied structure before legally discharging a firearm. Currently a person must be a football field (100 yards) away from such a structure. But they want to make it 200 yards (TWO football fields) in the County’s New Baltimore District.

The hearing is going to be on Thursday, July 9, at 6:30 PM.

Location:

First floor of the Warren Green Building,
10 Hotel Street
Warrenton, VA

You would think one football field would be plenty (that’s what it is here in Chesterfield, a much more populated county than Fauquier).

Here is the link about the meeting:

http://www.fauquiercounty.gov/documents/departments/BOS/pdf/publichearings.pdf

or

http://tinyurl.com/nuvkgjm

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If you can’t make the meeting, the Board can be contacted using the information on this web page:

http://www.fauquiercounty.gov/government/departments/bos/index.cfm?action=bos_details

or

http://tinyurl.com/oqbbvfb


Suggested message:

I OPPOSE extending the current 100 yard distance required for the discharge of a firearm to 200 yards in the New Baltimore District. It’s both a bad precedent for the whole county and unnecessary.

Sadly, the Fauquier BOS approved this measure.