Edhat StaffSource: Los Padres National Forest
Los Padres National Forest officials today issued a 30-day forest closure order for the Arroyo Burro Shooting Area on the Santa Barbara Ranger District. This order is in response to a fatal accidental shooting that occurred at the site Feb. 15. The closure will remain in effect until a formal investigation into the incident has been completed.
This 30-day closure should provide a sufficient amount of time to finalize the report of investigation and determine whether further measures are required to provide for public safety.
This order will be strictly enforced. Violators who discharge a firearm in the Arroyo Burro Shooting Area will be subject to a $5,000 fine for individuals and $10,000 for an organization, or imprisonment for six months, or both.
Past Articles
February 19, 2018 – Teen Dies Following Shooting Accident
February 15, 2018 – Shooting at Glass Factory
They need to close this scourge on the environment permantly. I’m amazed others haven’t been injured there considering the whizzing & riccocheting bullets that zoom every direction after hitting rocks & other solid objects.
There are more monthly injuries/deaths by vehicle in the city of Santa Barbara then there has been or ever will be at the glass factory…Should we stop driving? Close down the streets? I hate guns and gun violence but you gotta come up with a better reason than one accidental death to shut a place down forever.
Except that the driving equivalent to the Glass Factory would be a large dirt lot with potholes and nails, no delineated lanes, no speed limit, and a requirement for low-IQ drivers with mud on their windshields.
The false equivalency was in the post by 420722.
I was replying to a comment in the thread not the the reasonable 30 day closure for investigations. Who on earth would contest that? Someone said it needs to be shut down for ever. Where’s your IQ?
It’s clear from all the incidents involving guns and children that the gun nuts don’t give a darn about children unless they’re in somebody else’s womb.
Nature Boy, the gun people think you are a nut anyway if you seek to limit their enjoyment of weapons in any way or manner. There is no middle ground to this debate. Personally I think every US citizen should have the right to shoot at things and leave their trash and bullets scattered around public lands. The multicolored skeet targets littering the land around the gun club is another impressive sight in the SB area.